My biggest passion is helping yoga teachers understand how injuries in yoga can happen. Not to instill fear in you but to educate you to be able to understand how they can happen so you can best prevent injuries from occurring in your yoga classes.

As yoga teachers, we guide our students to reduce stress and impact the nervous system, for the better. But how can we deepen our understanding of the body’s physiological processes to enhance our teachings? One powerful player in this process is the vagus nerve—a key component of the parasympathetic nervous system

We all know that when we breathe in yoga we feel better physically but also mentally, do you know why? What is happening to your nervous system to allow you to feel better when you breathe better?

By learning to control the breath, yogis can activate a profound change in the nervous system, promoting relaxation, and reducing stress.. heres how:

We know we feel better through the practice of yoga, but why? What is happening to our cells, our joints, our muscles and our connective tissue to make us feel healthier?

Ever finished your yoga practice and wondered why you feel stronger?
Yes, you’re using your improving your flexibility, range of motion and strengthening your muscles.. but what’s happening to your bones?

Tips on becoming a safer yoga teacher by understanding the shoulder biomechanics when we lift our arms up.

We all know that yoga makes us feel calmer, but how?

One of my favourite things to teach teachers is about hip biomechanics and how we can make subtle changes to our sequencing and cueing to improve hip biomechanics for our students.

I know it can be very overwhelming when a student comes back to your class after an injury.

You often don’t have long to chat to them before class and it can be overwhelming to modify.

Where to start?

My top 5 tips on how to prevent SIJ pain and injury in yoga.

Tips on how to safely modify your students with frozen shoulder

Heres some thinking for you..

Why would you cue chair pose (where the knees travel over the ankles), and then in the next breath cue that the knee must stack over the ankle in a pose such as warrior 2 or high lunge?
It doesn’t make sense does it?

Hip pain related to yoga is a really common patient presentation I see in clinic.

This week in clinic I had a patient present with hip pain, that was worsened through yin yoga and she was finding it hard to still practice.