Movement Tips and Therapeautics
I provide helpful tips and tutorials to keep you moving with ease here.
Please use this section as a wellness resource and let me know if you would like to see a particular topic addressed.
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Breathing and the Pelvic Floor
Learn how your breathing works with your pelvic floor and how it relates to exercise.
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Shoulder and Chest Mobility
Grab a few tennis balls or Yoga Tune Up Balls and a Yoga block. Let's work out some of that shoulder and chest tightness and increase your range of motion.
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Release Neck Tension in 5 minutes
Release some of that neck tension with these simple yet very effective self massage techniques. You will want your tune up balls, yoga block and or Roller.
Enjoy!
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Restorative Roller Stretches
Take your mind and body on a mini vacation with these favorite stretches done on a roller. Breath, stretch, and align.
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Know your Options
Feel empowered in every class! I go over how to make ever exercise work for you in this tutorial
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Roll Out your Glutes
Try these self massage techniques with a ball for healthy Glutes
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Muscular Tips for Sacroiliac Joint Health
In this tutorial I share a few very basic exercises you can do to keep your surrounding sacroiliac joint muscles supple and strong. Remember we have to look at the entire picture and take our alignment, tightness and strength into consideration. All of my classes strive to do just this.
I hope...
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Asymmetrical/Scoliosis Tip
In this tutorial I provide some helpful breathing and stretching tips to help balance out our asymmetries.
Our asymmetries make us extra interesting. There is nothing wrong with us.
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Shoulder Tips
I share a few shoulder mobility and strengthening tips in this video.
My shoulder and chest moblity tips video is also helpful. Tightness in the chest can inhibit shoulder range of motion.
As always it's a balance
I hope you find it to be helpful
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Foot Bar Positions
I got over how to adjust the foot bar for your height and range of motion needs in this video
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Foam Rolling
I encourage you to try foam rolling and see how it feels. It can really help with muscle soreness and become a nice pre workout ritual.
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Rotator Cuff Rehab and Strengthening Exercises
Try these basic yet very effective exercises If you are having some shoulder/rotator cuff pain or just need to strengthen this area.
You will need a hand towel and some bands.
Do this sequence often and work up to bigger ranges of motion
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Wrist Warm Up and Strengthening Exercises
Do your wrists bother you while working out ? Try these exercises to warm your wrists up and strengthen them.
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Why I don't always cue "shoulders back and down"
Try these scapula stability exercises and learn why the cue "pull your shoulders back and down" is not always helpful
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Own Your Squat
You can't avoid squatting!
Try this short squat tutorial. Own it and use it :)
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Empowering Pelvic Floor exercises. 12 min
This tutorial will teach you how to contract the anterior pelvic floor correctly to help correct Stress Incontinence. This can also be a very complex situation and you may want to go see a Pelvic Floor PT as well. I will say that it is empowering to feel your pelvic floor fully contracting and re...
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Mobilize your Spine and Hips. 15 min Roller
This class is so wonderful for getting those kinks out and mobilizing your spine and hips. I hope you enjoy it and bookmark it as a favorite.
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Quick Shoulder Mobility and Chest Stretching. band. roller. 8 min
These mobility exercises and stretches take no time at all and feel so good! Your shoulders and chest will thank you.