Thalia Dorsten

Have you ever gone to a PT for back pain and wondered why they started checking out your hips? What do your hips have to do with your back?  That’s a wonderful question! Let me introduce you to a patient of mine to help illustrate this for you. Meet Jan, a kind 40-year-old corporate manager […]

If you remember back to your first-ever yoga class, you may remember being told to avoid inversions if you were actively on your period. I can still recall the first time hearing those words when on my period and feeling so confused…yet I still followed the instructions because the instructor must be saying this for […]

Yogi’s have a special relationship with their shoulders. How many times do you actively remind yourself “I’m fine” after the 12th chaturanga or holding your arms in warrior 2 for what feels like an eternity.  We definitely know what it means to feel the burn when it comes to training our shoulders! And if you’ve […]

Posture doesn’t matter: what are they actually trying to say and what’s missing from this conversation We’ve all heard it before: Posture doesn’t matter. And here at LYT, we advocate that posture DOES indeed matter. If you have gone through LYT teacher training, then you understand why we advocate for posture. If you’ve taken a LYT […]

Our bodies adapt to the demands we place on them – Wolff’s law. This is the foundational rule for why we need resistance training. Our brains, the CEO of our body system, want their companies, our bodies, to be efficient. This means if you don’t use it, the brain says “lose it”. Therefore, if we […]