This week's Pose of the Week is the Wall Warrior Twist. It's a pose to help you work smarter not harder in your yoga posture practice. Work Smarter, Not Harder in Yoga with the Therapeutic Wall Warrior Twist What does this posture offer? I'm so glad you asked! The...
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Improving Core Timing & Hip Stability: The 90-90 Series
This week's Pose of the Week is all about isolating the deep hip stabilizers for improving core timing and hip stability. Spoiler Alert! This is not your typical yoga posture or your "old school" boring clamshell. This little series can help tackle a multitude of...
Umbrella Breath: Access a Stronger Core, Voice, & Pelvic Floor
What is the Umbrella Breath? The Umbrella Breath is an accessible, if not easier, way to strengthen your core and pelvic floor using the voice and the breath. Building core strength requires that you raise or create intra-abdominal pressure to create spinal stiffness....
Pose of the Week – Kite Flying Hip Hack (Two Strap Hip Release)
This week’s Pose of the Week is a Hip Hack called Kite Flying, or what I also call Two Strap Hip Release. Kite Flying is not your typical yoga posture. It’s actually a Medical Therapeutic Yoga technique I created to mobilize a hip joint that has been snarky for too...
Pose of the Week – Know Your Hip Motion Limits for Hip Preservation In Yoga
Today’s pose of the week is about how to know your hip motion limits for hip preservation in yoga. In short, it's about hip preservation over hip opening, folks. I want to teach you how to know your hip range of motion boundaries through to beginning to understand how...
Pose of the Week – A Better Squat for the Hip & Ankle
Pose of the Week is all about tackling hip and pelvic issues in yoga postures. The goal is to make a yoga pose fit your body, rather than trying to force your body to fit a yoga pose. Visit my blog to see the other Posts of the Week and sign up for my newsletter (at...
Pose of the Week – The “Screw Home” Hip Hack
This week's Pose of the Week is not your typical yoga posture, it's a technique I use to preserve and protect (and realign) the hip joint. That means this particular pose can be used INSIDE of other yoga postures in order to create hip integrity and stability. Hip...
Pose of the Week – Triangle
Before we dig into this week's Pose of the Week, don't miss these posts: Pose of the Week – Warrior IPose of the Week – Warrior II If you want to make a request for a pose to be covered, email my office or leave a comment at the bottom of this post. The...
Pose of the Week – Warrior II
What is happening in the hip in Warrior II? I get LOTS of questions on yoga posture alignment. I want to kick off this #new #series #poseoftheweek by tackling a question sent to me today by a yoga teacher training student. The question: What is the hip...
Manage Stress & Trauma with The Sensory Diet
If you missed the first posts in the series, get them here: Start Here - The Yoga Couch - https://gingergarner.com/yoga-couch/Stress(less) Now: Breath Practice You Can Do Anywhere After getting comfy on the Yoga Couch, and learning to master the basics of breathing to...
Using Your Big Voice (Part II)
I am a human being first, a woman second, and a mother third. In that order. And yet, according to research, I will be judged (unfairly) and be valued less in society because of that last identity: being a mother. The reality is I will be paid less than a woman...
Using Your Big Voice: Harnessing Your Power from the Boardroom to the Bedroom
The Voice is Queen in the Pelvic Floor Kingdom Did you know your voice is a KEY INDICATOR for your pelvic & sexual health? If you want to go the distance - whether in the boardroom or the bedroom – then you gotta make some noise. This is because women are...