Stability – Satori Yoga

The MOST IMPORTANT core exercise – that you are probably not doing!

by Julia | May 15, 2017 | New this month, Yoga, Yoga Therapy

Past Thursday, as students in the Corrective Movement class were finishing some ball – ing, Jan winked at me, and said, “Some pretty sneaky core work you are having us do here.” I winked right back. The truth is, I’ve been sneaking in the core work in almost all...

Find your Tree {pose} or How To Get High Res Pictures Out Of Your Equipment:

by Julia | Nov 15, 2015 | New this month, Yoga, Yoga Therapy | 1 comment

This blog post started with a splash. Well, more accurately, it started with a moment of hesitation followed by a loud splash and a cold dunk. Brrrrr! Up until that pride-shattering moment I firmly believed that my balance was awesome – I could rock a Tree pose in any...

Is Your Child’s Pose A Pain In The Neck?

by Julia | Apr 29, 2014 | New this month, Yoga, Yoga Therapy

A new student has joined one of last week’s yoga classes. While she is new to Satori, she is a very experienced practitioner with over 12 years of yoga practice under her belt. When I asked the class to come into the child’s pose, she let me know that her neck doesn’t...

Stuck stretching your hip-flexors?

by Julia | Apr 22, 2014 | New this month, Yoga, Yoga Therapy

If you’ve been religiously stretching your hip-flexor muscles for a while with no consistent results, now might be as good time as ever to take a different (and wider) perspective. Traditionally, most individual muscle stretching protocols follow a somewhat mechanical...

Where do you find your stability?

by Julia | Feb 23, 2011 | Yoga

Exploratory movement in yesterday’s Hatha class revealed something very interesting. Oftentimes we lack awareness and/or strength in deep, intrinsic muscles of the inner core. Instead, when our stability is challenged, we engage the familiar, big postural muscles...