Yoga Anatomy Articles
Yoga injuries are on the rise. I’ll help you keep up to date and informed on subjects such as pain in general, back-pain, sciatica, sit bone pain, and knee pain.
The yoga anatomy articles are organized into categories such as, Injuries , Postures, Your Questions , Yoga , Anatomy , Yoga Injuries Research , Ashtanga Yoga Research , and even Yoga Adjustments.
They are also broken down more specifically by muscles, bandhas, breathing, sit bone pain, shoulders, psoas, and knee pain.
Yoga Twisting and Disk Herniations: Should You Do Twists in Yoga With a Herniation?
Yoga twisting and disk herniations is the topic of this question of the month. David gives some guidelines for how…
Frozen Shoulder And Yoga: How To Work With It?
This month’s question comes from Shirley, who asks about frozen shoulder and yoga. How do you modify practice for this…
Injuries In Yoga Adjustments: What Are Practitioners Experiencing?
Injuries In Yoga Adjustments: What Are Practitioners Experiencing? Most respondents reported experiencing hands-on adjustments as “very helpful” and did not…
Negative Experiences In Yoga Practice: What Do Practitioners Report?
What negative experiences in yoga practice are practitioners reporting? While slightly more than half of respondents did report having some…
How Do You Know What Yoga Practice To Do When You’re Injured?
I get lots of questions about how to do yoga practice when you’re injured. In this post, we’ll guide you…
Elbow Pain: Finding the Source of Your Elbow Tendinitis
This month’s question comes from Jade. She asked a question about elbow pain in yoga practice. What might be causing…
Assessing the Impacts of Yoga Asana – Survey Summary
The Yoga Anatomy Research Project (YARP) – This first post lays out the fundamental information that we gathered. It is…
Sit Bone Pain – 2021 Update
There have been a couple of overlapping issues to the original article on Sit Bone Pain. It just shows that…
Is Yoga Tearing Labrums?
Is yoga tearing labrums? The answer to that question is not so simple. Reports of labral tears do seem to…
Frozen Shoulder and Yoga – Do They Go Together?
Frozen shoulder and yoga practice? Frozen shoulder often has no known cause, but here are some thoughts on what you…
Injuries in Yoga – Framing the Conversation
Injuries in yoga are not so uncommon. Let’s take a look at some context for why and how injuries occur…
Working With Wrist Pain In Yoga?
Wrist pain in yoga is fairly common. There are many considerations when evaluating pain and/or injury of the wrist during…
What are Trigger Points?
Trigger points are extremely common. It is essential to know about them if you assess students complaining about chronic or…
Women’s Flexibility a Liability (in Yoga) ???
Here I discuss the recently published article by William J. Broad in the New York Times, titled Women’s Flexibility Is…
Working With Sit Bone Pain and Achy Hamstrings
Do you have sit bone pain or an aching hamstring? Here is a PNF technique that may help people with…
Quadratus Lumborum (QL) A Real Pain In The Back!
Quadratus lumborum can be important to both back pain and yoga. This muscle can be involved with back pain and…
Is Your Hip Pinching In Twists?
Learn what might be happening, anatomically, when you have a pinching sensation in the front of your hip while doing…
Injury In Supta Kurmasana: Supta Kurmasana Goes Pop!
Find out where injury in supta kurmasana can occur. Learn why the sternoclavicular joint is vulnerable when doing supta kurmasana.…
Yes, You Can Get Injured Doing A Headstand
Learn how the hand position you choose affects your headstand. Find out where your shoulders should be relative to your…
Response to NYT Article – How Yoga Can Wreck Your Body – Yoga Injuries
It is disheartening to see the New York Times come out with yet another article that seems to completely miss…
Got Sit Bone Pain? – What To Do With That Hamstring © 2010
Sit bone pain is a common problem inside and outside of yoga. This could be a potential hamstring tear or…