When I started teaching yoga, I wasn’t familiar with the idea of a “kinetic chain.” It was only many years later, when I was studying for my Certified Personal Training exam, that the concept came up in my textbook. It describes the body’s...
I was in a business training a few years ago for entrepreneurs and the presenter was talking about how you can clearly communicate what your brand offers. He used a process called a “framework” as a schematic to illustrate the different ares of a...
I was recently having a coaching call with one of the teachers in my Blueprint Learning Program. The goal of the program is to help teachers learn the key aspects of anatomy so they can confidently share it in their cues, sequences and conversations they...
I recently went out to dinner and we ran into some friends. They joined us and inevitably the conversation turned to, “What do you do?” (the couple was friend’s with my boyfriend, not me, so they weren’t familiar with my...
Many years ago, I was introduced to the concept of “unconscious competence;” the idea that there are things that we each know so well, we don’t even think about how to use that knowledge.. it just flows from us. The example given was one of a pitcher...
I was having dinner the other night with a group of people and one of the guests mentioned they were having neck and shoulder tightness. We got to talking and they were curious about the muscles in the upper neck. It’s times like these that I love because it...
