Core Strength: it's NOT what You Think!
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Core Strength: it's NOT what You Think!

Your Core Starts With Your Breath

Crunches, bracing, sucking it in—none of it gets you true core strength. The secret? Breathing.

Deep, sustainable support for your lower back and body begins with the way you breathe. This therapeutic video walks you through 3 poses for deep core activation—simple, smart, and surprisingly effective.

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What if Your Sensitivity is a Superpower?
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What if Your Sensitivity is a Superpower?

For the Highly Sensitive Nervous System

If the world hits you a little harder than it does others—this one’s for you.

This week, I’m re-sharing a powerful interview with Erica Belanger—HSP coach, somatic experiencing practitioner, and yoga teacher. We talk about breathing with a sensitive nervous system, the science of sensitivity, and how to transform it into a superpower.

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Create Calm in 3 Simple Poses
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Create Calm in 3 Simple Poses

Could You Use More Calm?

Technology promised ease, but it’s left us buzzing with urgency—notifications, pings, endless demands. No wonder calm feels rare and patience even rarer.

This week’s therapeutic video offers 3 simple poses to keep calm—a reset for your nervous system and your mind.

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Deep Breathing = Inner Alchemy
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Deep Breathing = Inner Alchemy

Why Your Breathing Might Be Holding You Back

You eat well, move often, maybe even meditate—yet still feel stretched thin. The missing piece? Your breathing.

Your breath is the bridge between your conscious and unconscious mind. What messages are you sending?

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Unstable Ankles? 3 Poses to Help.
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Unstable Ankles? 3 Poses to Help.

3 Poses to Stabilize Your Ankles

Ankle sprains aren’t just about ankles—they’re tied to your feet, hips, and even your breathing. Functional breathing creates a cascade of stability through your whole body, including your lower legs.

This new therapeutic video shares 3 simple poses to reorganize and strengthen your ankles from the ground up. Try them out and feel the difference.

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Someone Who Makes You Bristle?
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Someone Who Makes You Bristle?

Emotions Live in Your Fascia

Ever tense up just thinking about someone? That shoulder-clenching, breath-holding reaction isn’t just in your head—it’s in your connective tissue.

This week’s podcast explores how emotional residue gets stored in your fascia, shaping patterns of bracing, tensing, and collapse. You’ll also learn how your posture reveals real-time signals from your nervous system—and how to work with them to release what your body’s holding.

Because sometimes, healing starts with what you feel in your structure.

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Rigid v. Resilient Strength
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Rigid v. Resilient Strength

Not All Strength Is the Same

Some strength is stiff and rigid—isolated muscles, tight effort, tension masked as power. But true strength is different: it’s fluid, connected, and sustainable.

What makes the difference? Fascia—your body’s living web. When you train fascia along with muscle, strength becomes integrated, springy, and smart. You feel it not just in the gym, but in daily life: carrying groceries, walking stairs, or relaxing with ease.

This is strength that feels like yoga—graceful, grounded, and resilient.

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Knot in your shoulders? Tension in your jaw? Try these.
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Knot in your shoulders? Tension in your jaw? Try these.

Your Body’s Living Web

3 Gentle Poses to Release Your Upper Back

Your shoulders feeling tight? Jaw clenched? Upper back stiff? This new therapeutic video walks you through 3 floor-based stretches that gently unwind tension from the top down.

Perfect for anyone doing awkward, repetitive upper body work (hi, stylists, dentists, bodyworkers!), this practice rinses and resets your system. It’s also the perfect follow-up to last week’s standing shoulder stretches.

Fascia weaves through every part of your body. It’s sensory, emotional, and always recording. The good news? It’s constantly remodeling based on how you move, breathe, hydrate, and rest.

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Your Inner Web of Resilience
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Your Inner Web of Resilience

Your Body’s Living Web

When you think of healing pain or building strength, muscles and joints come to mind but fascia is the missing piece.

Fascia weaves through every part of your body. It’s sensory, emotional, and always recording. The good news? It’s constantly remodeling based on how you move, breathe, hydrate, and rest.

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Lower Back need some Love? 3 Movement to do That.
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Lower Back need some Love? 3 Movement to do That.

Low Back Pain? Start Here.

When your low back hurts, the instinct is to stretch, twist, or “pop” it—but that usually makes things worse.

This new therapeutic video shares 3 movements to help your back reset and recover by releasing tension, supporting your core, and restoring your natural alignment.

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How does the body keep the score?
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How does the body keep the score?

Issues in Your Tissues?

You’ve heard the body keeps the score—but where does it keep it? More and more research points to your fascia, the connective tissue wrapping your muscles and organs, as the place where stress gets stored.

Fascia is rich in interoception (your inner sense of what’s going on), making it key to healing.

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3 Poses to Free Your Hips
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3 Poses to Free Your Hips

3 Poses to Free Your Hips

Been sitting too long? Stiff from a commute, a hike, or just life? This new therapeutic video walks you through 3 simple, effective poses to unlock your hips and feel human again.

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What to do about OVERWHELM?
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What to do about OVERWHELM?

Overwhelm Isn’t Weakness

Feeling stretched thin? Overwhelm is your nervous system’s check engine light and not a personal failure.

In this episode, I share how to recognize the early signs (like sensory overload and decision fatigue) and how to respond with simple, body-based practices that help you recalibrate before burnout hits.

Because overwhelm isn’t weakness. it’s wisdom in disguise.

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Depression isn't just in your Head
Alison Starr Alison Starr

Depression isn't just in your Head

Depression Isn't just in Your Head, it's in Your Body

I turned to yoga out of desperation—and it worked. Years later, science is catching up, showing how movement and breath can heal from the bottom up.

This 24-minute podcast shares how yoga helped me out of depression—and why it might help you too.

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Bend & Bay Area Events
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Bend & Bay Area Events

Awesome practice opportunities are on the horizon!

Each of these events has a unique combination of yoga asana and movement science. You'll make discoveries about your body and practice moving, breathing, and healing.

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3 Things to Do when Your Body is ANGRY.
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3 Things to Do when Your Body is ANGRY.

How to Move Through Pain

What do you do when your back seizes, your knee bites, or your neck locks up?

This blog shares 3 go-to strategies for navigating pain, rebalancing your body, and supporting long-term healing—without waiting on a massage or PT appointment.

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How Yoga Healed My Depression
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How Yoga Healed My Depression

How Movement Helped Me Heal

Depression hit like a rogue wave—sudden, disorienting, and overwhelming. Yoga was my lifeline. I started practicing just to survive, chasing a few precious hours of peace. Eventually, those hours turned into days, and one unforgettable moment on a Maui highway showed me: I was finally okay.

In this blog, I share how movement—yoga asana, strength training, and walking—helped me rebuild from the inside out. We also revisit what made early yoga so powerful and how to reconnect with its healing roots.

Because sometimes, healing isn’t in your head—it starts in your body.

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🤫How do you (really) feel about your yoga practice?
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🤫How do you (really) feel about your yoga practice?

Is Your Yoga Practice Still Working? (Or Just Keeping You Busy?)

This post explores what makes real transformation possible—and why many modern yoga classes no longer deliver it. You'll learn the three core elements required for meaningful change: nervous system safety, empowered adaptation, and identity-level shifts. It also asks an honest question: Is your current practice still doing that for you? If it’s starting to feel more like a workout than a wake-up call, this might explain why. Get ready to rethink your mat, your movement, and your potential.

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Why you're stuck (and what to do about it)
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Why you're stuck (and what to do about it)

The Cycle of Stuck (And How to Break Free)

This post unpacks why you’re not broken—you’re just wired to resist change. It maps the psychological and physiological loop that keeps you in the “I’ll start tomorrow” cycle: the alarm bells, the ego chatter, the pull of the familiar. More importantly, it shows you how to train your nervous system to embrace discomfort, build a new identity through action, and make meaningful change that lasts.

Spoiler: It’s not about willpower—it’s about wiring.

Let the transformation begin.

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Why you don't [insert thing you KNOW would be good for you]
Alison Starr Alison Starr

Why you don't [insert thing you KNOW would be good for you]

Why You Keep Falling Off the Wagon (And What to Do About It)

This blog breaks down the emotional terrain of learning and growth: from the overconfidence of beginning, to the free-fall into the Valley of Despair, and finally the steady climb up the Slope of Enlightenment. It’s not failure—it’s a map.

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