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yoga Jun8th 2017

Strength and the Yoga Body

Imagine for a moment that you’re at the Olympic Village eating in the cafeteria with all the athletes. A huge man wanders by with massive neck and shoulder muscles, thighs as big as your chest, and biceps and forearms like a python. He’s next to a rail-thin man with long sinewy legs and arms and

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Downward Sliding Dog

May8th 2017

Our family recently rescued a beautiful Australian Shepherd named Sydney from a family who had 7 dogs in a postage-stamp sized yard with no place to run. There she had spent the first 2 years of her life having 2 litters of pups, and competing for food and any morsel of attention she could get.

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“Y” is Warrior 3 so dang hard. Part 3

Apr8th 2017

As a culture of chair-sitters, most of us tend to develop a fairly typical pattern of weakness and tightness around the hips and lower back. It happens like this: sitting in a chair with support, or sitting unsupported in a slouched posture both cause the lower back muscles to gradually weaken, and the hamstrings to

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