Exercises/ Yoga/ Pilates

Part 3 of 3: Exercising with Diastasis Recti

If you are taking an exercise class or are working out at the gym, these are some of the exercises that can overstress

Part 2 of 3: How to Check for Diastasis Recti

Part two of three - instructions of how to check for diastasis recti.

Part 1 of 3: Diastasis Recti: What is it?

The word diastasis means ‘to separate’ and when people refer to Diastasis Recti it refers to ‘the separation of the Rectus Abdominis muscles

A beginner's guide to a familiar, yet hard, yoga sequence of poses

Often in a yoga class, students will move through a sequence of 4 poses, but many times students need an alternative to the poses

Is Cobra a modification to Upward Facing Dog? Nope!

Unfortunately, Upward-Facing Dog is one of the most misunderstood, undertaught, and yet one of the more frequent poses in a yoga flow class

Four-limbed Staff Pose or Chaturanga Dandasana

Chaturanga Dandasana is hard. And unfortunately, because it is hard, it is done incorrectly in a lot of yoga classes.

Doing Plank Correctly

How to do Plank correctly and how to modify if needed

Side Plank - from beginning to end

This is one of my favorite poses because it requires so many muscles to be active together.

The importance of hands

"Do not collapse into gravity, push the floor away."

Why I recommend Lat Pull overs on floor

"...I love this exercise to help us stand strong and properly aligned."