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Cardiovascular Exercise Re-Explained

I grew up and have spent most of my life thinking that Cardiovascular exercise was super important – How many of us have grown up thinking – if you run and sweat and raise your heart rate you burn calories and you’re doing yourself a favor? Until recently I thought this and believed it as […]

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SI Pain

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“Sacroiliac pain comes from unbalanced muscular force between the glutes and the pelvic floor, and the resulting pelvic floor hypertension on the sacrum.” – Katy Bowman, Alignment Matters (page 144) Sacroiliac pain can be so painful and often debilitating. You can’t walk for any length of time and standing too can be painful. There might be

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Pelvic Listing vs Hip Dropping

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I recently wrote a post for my tango site, accesstango.com about hip dropping in tango and why it is not a great idea. Well, it’s not a great idea to drop our hips in walking or standing regardless of tango dancing or not. So better than hip dropping let us look at Pelvic Listing. Pelvic Listing is

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Podcast Regarding Male Pelvic Pain

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We often hear about pelvic problems for women and it’s not very mainstream to hear about men’s disorders, except for maybe their prostrate. This podcast comes from colleagues, Susan McLaughlin at Align for Health interviewing Restorative Exercise colleague, David McCoid of Freedom From Pelvic Pain talking about David’s journey to becoming pelvic-pain FREE! As I always say,

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Whole Body Days

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From one of my new favorite Facebook Friends, Stop Chasing Pain by Dr. Perry Nickelston. He is right on with so many of his ideas. And so many of them I learned in my dance trainings through the years! Funny how now some of the exercises or movement suggestions are gaining popularity when they were part

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The Spine

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I was really intrigued by this NPR podcast and article: Lost Posture: Why Indigenous Cultures Don’t Have Back Pain. The article discusses the possible reasons why back pain is so prevalent in our culture and Ms. Gokhale, an acupuncturist in CA, began looking at cultures that apparently don’t have back pain. There were a few things

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Can you change bowed legs?

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I never thought it would be possible. Ever since I can remember, I have been bow-legged, and over the course of 2 years I have managed to transform that. I grew up wearing orthotics. I was told I had no arches even though when I wasn’t bearing any weight i saw arches on my feet. At one

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Calf Stretch Everywhere

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I was recently traveling and was lucky enough to stay in a beautiful hotel. Most of you know that I travel with my half-dome, I don’t leave home without it or i regret it! (Here, I was traveling with my 1/4 dome! Half of a half dome for easy travel!) There I was in my

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