INSPIRATION & EDUCATION

When I go for a summer exercise walk by the river, or climb my favorite neighborhood butte, I feel without time. Like I have always been on this exact road and I always will be. There is no work or struggle. There is only this. Everything in that exact moment is perfect; it is the vacation, but I haven’t even left my neighborhood. There is no road in Italy that is somehow better.

During a squat, with your feet planted firmly on the ground, dorsiflexion happens as your knees move over your toes. If you lack ankle dorsiflexion, you may unknowingly compensate by leaning forward with your torso to complete the squat. When the body compensates for dorsiflexion, a cascade of other dysfunctional compensations will travel all the way up the body.

What needs to improve the most in your life is the mindset that you take into your goals. The biggest self-improvement promise you can make to yourself this spring is to realize your mindset and gently nudge yourself to a greater sense of love. Love is the underlying current of every-single-change you seek. Literary, even if the change is taking vitamins, which kind of seems like a boring change. But even taking vitamins can be a practice in a routine of love. Some women a

Pronation and supination are two natural foot movements in the gait cycle. The gait cycle is the series of movements that occur when walking. Your foot needs to come off the ground, and your foot needs to land on the ground, and the muscles from the foot to the hip are coordinating those motions. Those muscles are making instant compensations, shifting to keep you moving straight forward. The foot needs to pronate, but overpronation is a strategy of the brain, trying to find

When we talk about hip movement, we are talking about the dynamic movement of the femur as it sits inside the pelvis. Hip motions are flexion, extension, rotation, abduction, and adduction of the thigh (the femur). The movement of the femur moves the pelvis. You can see this during the gait cycle (the walking cycle). When you move a leg backward (extend it), the pelvis moves backward on the same side. The pelvis and the sacrum have their own motions. The pelvis tilts and rota

Dorsiflexion happens when you raise your toes toward your shin. It also happens when your foot is firmly planted on the ground and your knee moves over your ankle, as in a squat position. Healthy dorsiflexion range of motion affects every motion in the body, even the swing of a volleyball players arm! The health of your feet and lower legs is vital to the health of the rest of your body! In my practice, I only work with women who are experiencing jaw tension, TMJ dysfunction,