when living serves up lemons, make lemon poundcake
Sundays, my day of rest aka the day for pedaling around for the Sun Salutations Pedal Abouts rewarded with a delicious cuppa joe and a perfect omelette. Just me and 2.0 (my cute purple bike, #2). We even got out there, turned the pedals 3 times…then realized the gears weren’t shifting. The sadness didn’t immediately […]
Ebb-Posterior Chain Activation Glutes-Hamstrings-Adductors
Coordinating the muscle groups of the posterior chain. The muscles of the back body work in a coordinated way from heel, through calves, to hamstrings, glutes/pelvis, sacrum/latissimus dorsi to traps into posterior deltoids. I like to call the muscles from the posterior pelvis (sacrum) up and out through the posterior deltoids, our angel wings. They […]
flow-building toward tripod side plank
I didn’t realize earlier this year, when I embarked on strengthening my posterior chain – especially inner thigh and hamstrings, gaining access to them and learning how to use them (I never really had before in my life!), together with the quads, that sideline and unilateral work would come in hot right behind it all. […]
Balance Prep Pops Up in Long Stretch Variations Flow
Up Stretch Hip Pike from seated Balance Prep cantilever hips to hinged spine, shoulder flex overhead, heels and balls of feet pressing back and into box/carriage to draw body up Balance Prep into vertical spine, shoulder flexed overhead to extended behind to counter body up Round Back Plank, + Jack Rabbit to Round Back Long […]
Flowing #1, Table Top Drop into Hamstring Stretch
Short Box on Springs legs in table top. Table Top Drop 90-90 legs into lumbar extension, lumbar bridge Table Top into hamstring stretch + Forward arm extension/flexion + Flexion overhead It probably has a name. And maybe I learned it? But my best learnings have always been organically discovered in my own body, first…then I […]
Ebbing, Progression to Long Stretch – in Plantar Flexion
Finding Shoulder and Pelvic Stability to Knees Off, Up/Down Stretch following posterior chain activation choreography, all from the tops of my feet. One of my greatest, most constant measures of my vitality has been during my morning rituals. I almost always start with a presspot of my favorite coffee beans followed by time on the […]
Balance Prep
Ever since I fractured my pelvis just a few years ago, I’ve learned so much from what I feel inside my body and what I see before my eyes today that is in complete opposition to what I also know is true about how I moved before – the habitual patterns I developed over my […]
headspace
I am a dreamer, my imagination is endless. And, if you give me a little room, I will recreate the space around me, in perpetuity. Change fuels dreams. For over half my life, every day I made it to the next day, I was defying the odds. Thank goodness, there was always a little […]