Yoga Anatomy Articles
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.

When Can I Return To Yoga Practice After A Hip Replacement?
Experienced yoga practitioners can safely resume yoga practice after a hip replacement, but should be cautious with deeper ranges of…

Upper Crossed Syndrome And Yoga
Learn about the muscular imbalance pattern of upper crossed syndrome. Find out how we can use yoga to help rebalance…

What Is Thoracic Outlet Syndrome?
Thoracic outlet syndrome affects the head, neck, shoulder, arm, and/or chest. Learn what it is and how it could affect…

A Comprehensive Guide To The Shoulder In Yoga
This post is a comprehensive look at the shoulder in its entirety. We share a detailed breakdown of the shoulder…

When To Heal The Body With Yoga And When To Get Outside Help
When is healing with yoga not enough? If a body issue is not improving and you’ve come to the end…

Should You Practice Through Pain In Yoga?
Should you ever practice through pain in yoga? Learn about different potential sources of pain and what those types of…

Can Yoga Practice Reduce Neck Pain?
Recent research that suggests that yoga practice may reduce chronic, non-specific neck pain for some practitioners, but not others.…

Is Yoga Safe? – Injury In Yoga
Our research on injury in yoga provides information to empower yoga practitioners and teachers to make informed decisions on yoga…

Butt Pain And Sciatica: How Do I Tell If This Pain Is Sciatica?
This month, David answers a question from Mort about butt pain and sciatica. While pain in the gluteals is sometimes…

Leg Behind Head Pose And Neck Pain
Working with eka pada sirsasana (leg behind head) is the subject of this month’s question of the month. David offers…

Ankle Pain In Half Lotus Pose: How To Evolve Your Half Lotus Without Pain
David shares his approaches to working with ankle pain in half lotus. Find out what might be causing your ankle…

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…

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…

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…

Do I Have a Trapped Nerve?
In this Question of the Month a student ask: A student asks: Do I have a “trapped nerve”? I give…

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…

Gluteal And Psoas Relationship For Yogis
Understand the ways that a pelvic imbalance is expressed in your gluteal and psoas muscular balance, and its relationship to…

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.…

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…