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Are You Creating a Handmade Life?
So many of you are laboring away in different ways, owning the life you seek to create, doing the work to support it. You are stretching your calves and sitting on the floor and walking instead of driving. You are going to therapy and feeling the feelings and challenging the beliefs you hold that tell you to just give up.
17 Ways to Move More When You're Stuck at a Desk
You know your body needs to be tended to, but you're not sure how to make it happen when your day-to-day life involves a desk. This video is FOR YOU. :)
Three Reasons Exercise Isn't Getting You Better
Did you think exercise would make you feel stronger or healthier or maybe just better than you used to? For some of you, maybe you don't really expect exercise to provide results. Here’s a video exploring our expectations around exercise.
My Go-To Exercise For... Most Things :-)
Where do you start if your back is bothering you? If you sneeze when you pee? If you have TMJ? If your quads won't ever relax? If your hips feel wonky? If you're digestion is off? If you have low energy?
Stubborn Belief
What it would it be like, I imagined, to stubbornly believe in what might be? To stubbornly believe in the big dreams I hold? To stubbornly believe in the inherent physical, emotional, psychic drive to wholeness? To stubbornly believe that God/Universe/Spirit is wanting good things for me?
Get Too Big for Your Britches (aka Work Your Glutes)
Sure, I don't have the potential to have something big and round on my rear. But I do have the potential to have something modest and round, something other than flat. For my whole-body health, it's essential that I exercise that potential.
9 Body Lessons From Selling My House
Get more out of your move, whether it's a move across the country or a move off the couch.
Stop Waking Up With Low- to Mid-Back Pain
You ever wake up in the morning and feel like your low back is all stiff or there's a twinge in the mid back? Here's a quick tutorial on how to make it stop.
What My Missionary Mother Taught Me About Movement
You need to move. It helps you meet your basic biological needs. And enhance your relationships. And deepen your sense of community. And grow in love. And be available for the big questions in life.
Three Ways to Get More Wild in Bed
Everything that follows will not only help you restore your outdoorsy wild; it's going help you restore your indoor wild, too, if you catch my drift. ;)
Change Your Environment or Change Your Body?
It's not just today we need to be looking out for when we are choosing between the floor and a chair, when we are choosing between corrective exercises and stiffer shoe, when we are choosing between sitting on the sacrum or rolling the pelvis forward, when we are choosing between a walk and mindless time on the internet.
It's tomorrow, too.
3 Upper Body Alignment Assessments
If you're like almost every single client or student of mine, then my guess is that when you think you are *fixing* your hyperkyphosis and your internal rotation and the glummyness in your shoulder girdle, what you are really doing is *HIDING* it.
3 Ways to BLP and Become More Resilient
Is a desire to "get it just right" interfering with the ability to just "get it"?
What Are You Tolerating?
Have you run into those limits in yourself? Those places where maybe you freak out about your body? Or you lose your shit with your partner or kid? Or you punish yourself in some way or another?
On Miscarriage & Resilience
The second child in as many years left my body unexpectedly this last week. This time, when I realized I was miscarrying, I spent time thinking about what I wanted this experience to be like. Or rather, who I wanted to be in this experience. How I wanted to show up to it.
Where have your feet carried you?
Our feet are important. They contain 1/4 of all the bones in the body and an absurd amount of joints, muscles, ligaments and tendons. For most of us, they are the primary way we have of moving our bodies across the earth.