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Thalia Dorsten

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How to have a happy low back
18 November 2022

How to have a happy low back – part 3

Welcome to part three of the three-part How to Have a Happy Low Back series! If you haven’t had a chance to check out part one or part two, I highly encourage you to start there or read them after you finish this article. From the first article, we learned that having a healthy and happy lower back requires three […]

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How To Have A Happy Low Back
19 October 2022

How to have a happy low back – part 2

Welcome to part two of the three-part How to Have a Happy Low Back series! If you haven’t had a chance to check out part one, I highly encourage you to start there or read it after you finish this article. Remember that what our lower back truly desires is to have three things: stability, mobility, and adaptability.  Low […]

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How to have a happy low back
14 September 2022

How to have a happy low back – part 1

The lumbar spine consists of 5 vertebrae and is surrounded by layers of muscle and connective tissue. Encapsulated by layers of fascia, the lumbar spine is the home of the energetic hub of our central nervous system – the spinal cord. This wonderful playground of tissue and bone gives us the capacity to move in […]

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Peach season:
24 August 2022

Peach season: your end of summer glute daily yoga guide

PEACH SEASON: YOUR END OF SUMMER GLUTE DAILY YOGA GUIDE  Ever wonder why world-class athletes have aesthetically pleasing donks? They aren’t for show, that’s for sure. World-class athletes like Serena Williams put their glutes to work! And you should too. Read on to learn about this powerful muscle group and what you can do to […]

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Getting off center to find balance
21 July 2022

Getting off center to find balance

Why do we care about balance? Physically, balance can be defined as stability. It’s a useful area of focus, especially in yoga, but there is far more to this concept than avoiding injury and managing not to fall over. The more you learn about physiological balance, the more you’ll learn about another, more important kind […]

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Four Simple Intrinsic Foot Exercises
16 June 2022

Four simple intrinsic foot exercises for happy feet

Having poor foot intrinsic muscle activation can be an unknown cause of foot and ankle pain. Your foot intrinsic muscles are small muscles in the feet that help control your foot mechanics, provide balance and stability, and help with proprioception (your ability to sense the environment). When people come in with physical therapy with foot, […]

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Train Like A Girl
19 May 2022

Train like a girl

Follow the rhythm of your monthly cycle and optimize your training Did you know that as females, we run on two different biological clocks? We have a circadian rhythm that runs on a 24-hour cycle and an infradian rhythm that runs on a 28-day cycle. Everyone has a circadian rhythm. It runs many physiological processes […]

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Evidence-based yoga
16 March 2022

Evidence-based yoga

Evidence-based yoga: what does science say about the practice of yoga? Hardly do we ever hear science and yoga used together in the same sentence. Or at least that’s what I would have thought. Then I did a scientific literature review and saw over 7,000 articles that have been published about yoga. Yoga is an […]

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Four steps to heal your tendinopathy
18 February 2022

Four steps to heal your tendinopathy

Tendons are wonderful structures of dense connective tissue, largely composed of collagen, that help connect muscle to bone. Its job is to help transfer force from muscle to bone. When tendons lengthen, they store energy that then gets released through a stretch-shortening cycle. This is that springy feeling you might feel when you load up […]

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Why Am I Sore?
17 January 2022

Why am I sore?

It’s January, my beautiful friends! And for a lot of us, that means using the inspiration of a fresh year to embark on wellness journeys galore. If you’re reading this, you’ve likely decided that a daily movement practice is part of your mission to thrive in 2022. You’re two weeks into that new training program […]

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