For at least 15 years, I’ve been able to predict one comment every single time I post a photo of myself, or one of my students, in a deep backbend.

“OUCH.”

Sometimes they really commit to it. OUCCCHHHHH.😂

It still makes me laugh because the person actually IN the backbend is usually thinking anyt...

The other day in class, one of my students came up out of Bridge and just paused for a second.

She looked at me and said, “That felt… different.”

Same pose. Same body. But everything about it had changed.

Her lift was higher, yes. But more than that, it looked organized. Supported. Like her body ...

Let’s talk backbends.

For years, I thought I was doing them “right.” I’d push my hips forward, throw my chest back, and hope for the best. And while that might look like a backbend from the outside, inside? My low back was screaming.

It took time, study, and some major trial and error to learn how...

And, there it was. The new student that had come into the yoga studio, half listening to my instructions of what to expect for her first class, flippantly signing her waiver and pushing it into my face when completed, was crying.

Coming out of her first Camel Pose, the rigidity, and “it’s me agains...

You might have noticed I've been thinking a lot about King Pigeon Pose and Dancer Pose with the Master Reverse Grip Immersion beginning next Saturday and it made me want to dive into some old yoga photos. 

So, above you can see one of my first attempts in King Pigeon Pose (Eka Pada Rajakopotanasana...