Angina? Maybe It’s Your Scalenes Screaming At You
The last thing my massage therapist said to me was, “I never knew the scalenes could be so tight, poor thing.” My first reaction: Yay! I know what my scalenes are! All this anatomy studying has paid...
View ArticleSilence Screaming Scalenes with Yoga Tune Up® Therapy Balls
On Wednesday, I discussed the scalenes and how posture and habits can cause neck pain and tightness. Luckily, we can all learn to massage our necks for scalene muscle pain relief. Of course, the Yoga...
View ArticlePucker Up!
Because it was highly recommended by another Yoga Tune Up® teacher, I listened to speaker Julian Treasure give a ten minute talk on TED titled How to Speak So That Others Will Listen. Of course this is...
View ArticlePerfecting Your Pucker Muscles
Last week, I talked about the complexities of the lip muscles and how some movements of the lips and mouth, things like doing a zerbert, require activating more than just one muscle. There is one...
View ArticleNavigating an Autoimmune Disease – Yoga Tune Up® Style
According to the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, there are more than 80 autoimmune diseases and more than 23.5 million Americans are affected by them. Unfortunately for me, I am...
View ArticleEmbodied Living With Autoimmune Disease
Last week I shared with you how receiving my first self-care toolkit and learning to etch my EmbodyMap at the therapy ball training was the start of me knowing this body of mine, this vessel that...
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