Welcome to Wednesday Q&A, where you ask questions and we answer them!

In this Wednesday Q&A, we answer your questions about anteriorly versus posteriorly tilted pelvis and psoas release techniques.

Your questions:

• In a book I’ve been reading, the author states that most people are rib thrusters and pelvis tuckers. The author says this is a response to being hunched over in a seated position with the pelvis tucked or as a counterbalance to high heels. When in doubt, stick your butt out is what he says. Shortened hamstrings and calves pull the pelvis into a posterior tilt. Tucking the pelvis under, especially while sitting brings the sacrum out of alignment, brings it forward into the bowl of the pelvis. Ultimately the pelvic floor muscles shorten and lose their ability to contract. I’m under the impression that most people suffer from an anteriorly tilted pelvis because sitting causes hip flexors to shorten and tighten while glutes get long and weak from sitting. Is that correct? Which is more prevalent, anterior or posterior tilt? Which is more of a concern for the pelvis - shortened hip flexors and weak hips, or shorten calves and hamstrings?
• I have been seeing some posts about how you can't relax the psoas through pressure because of all the muscle and viscera that is layered under it. And yet if I do use a block to lie on, especially after a lot of hand pressing, I do feel that it helps relax the area and loosens my low back. I feel like you think that it must help a bit because you've included it in one of your classes once and called it belly time for adults. I’d love to hear your thoughts on that. 

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Lara and Yogi Aaron met virtually many years ago through Aaron’s Costa Rican beautiful retreat center, Blue Osa. Yogi Aaron has been practicing yoga for a very long time, but unfortunately, like so many people, was injured by his yoga practice. He has learned a lot through his experience of pain, how to better prepare his body and better move his body. And he now has a podcast called Stop Stretching. Yogi Aaron teaches a more dynamic approach to yoga and to creating a stronger vessel so that we can go and live our best life.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• about Muscle Activation Technique (MAT).
• why stability in the body is so important. 
• why stretching isn’t always the answer. 

To learn more, and for the complete show notes, visit: lytyoga.com/blog/category/podcasts/

Resources:

• Stop Stretching podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/stop-stretching/id205170958
• Blue Osa Yoga Retreat & Spa: https://www.blueosa.com/
• Instagram: @yogi_aaron
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• Instagram: @lara.heimann

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Welcome to Wednesday Q&A, where you ask questions and we answer them!

In this Wednesday Q&A, we answer your questions about postpartum movement practices and the creativity that goes into LYT Yoga sequencing. 

Your questions:

• Any suggestions for postpartum movement and strategy for getting back into movement?
• I love how creative you are in LYT Yoga. How do you come up with so many creative sequences? It seems like they are endless. 

To learn more, and for the complete show notes, visit: lytyoga.com/blog/category/podcasts/

Do you have a question?

• DM Lara on Instagram: @lara.heimann
• DM Kristin on Instagram: @kbwilliams99
• Email us at [email protected]

Sponsor:

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Join Lara for a conversation with Shayna Cornelius & Dana Stiles, co-founders of DayLuna, to talk about all things human design. Human design is a synthesis of ancient modalities with modern science. It allows you to see what your energetic aura or energetic body looks like and how it operates in the world around you to experience less resistance, more abundance, and more expansion. You can think of your energetic body like a car. And human design is saying, here's the manual for your car. There are five overall types of human design. Your type describes your energetic aura. These five types each have a specific way that they're designed to use their energy at a specific amount of energy. Learn more about your human design so that you can make decisions to guide you down your life path to living your purpose and to being the energy you are here to be in the world. Take a listen to learn more!

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• How human design interacts with the nature versus nurture perspective on life.
• About the five types of human design: manifestor, manifesting generator, generator, projector, and reflector.
• What is authentic for you? How do you know what that is? How do you navigate it? How do you find it and recreate it as life twists and turns?

To learn more, and for the complete show notes, visit: lytyoga.com/blog/category/podcasts/

Resources:

• https://www.daylunalife.com/
• Instagram: @d.a.y.l.u.n.a
• Visit relationshipschool.com/lara to get 50% off your first month of relationship coaching.
• Instagram: @lara.heimann

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Welcome to Wednesday Q&A, where you ask questions and we answer them!

In this Wednesday Q&A, we answer your questions about restarting yoga after breast surgery, persistent wrist pain, and scar tissue around the collarbone from surgery. 

Your questions:

• I've just had breast surgery to remove three lumps from my left breast. There were two incisions, one on my areola and the other one under the left breast on the fifth rib. The doctor says that I can get back to yoga after a month. When I return to my yoga practice, can I do the reset and sun sal 1? Are there any movements that I should avoid?
• I've been dealing with pain in my left wrist for several years. I can't move into full wrist extension without pain, let alone full weight-bearing in poses like plank. Most of my pain is in the thumb side and radiates to the middle of my wrist. It feels like there's something in the way, like when you can't close a door all the way because something is stuck in the doorway. I've seen several specialists and PT hasn't helped. I recently saw a new orthopedic and they diagnosed me with de Quervain's tenosynovitis and gave me a steroid shot. It helped some, but the pain is still there and hinders my ability to fully practice yoga or any weight-bearing activities that require me to extend my wrists. Any ideas as to what it may be or movements that I can do to alleviate some of the pain?
• I have scar tissue around my collarbone from surgery that I had where a plate was installed. Do you have any specific exercises where you can loosen that area up? I've had the plate for six years already, but I've started doing some exercises and I'm sore now.

To learn more, and for the complete show notes, visit: lytyoga.com/blog/category/podcasts/

Do you have a question?

• DM Lara on Instagram: @lara.heimann
• DM Kristin on Instagram: @kbwilliams99
• Email us at [email protected]

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In this episode, Lara chats with Ph.D., international exercise physiologist, and nutrition scientist Dr. Stacy Sims. Dr. Stacy’s aim is to revolutionize exercise nutrition and performance for women. Believe it or not, much of the research out there on nutrition and exercise physiology is conducted on men and then applied to women. She talks about how men and women are different and how we should embrace those differences, noting that “women are not small men.” Dr. Stacy has created a platform to help women be healthy and understand their bodies, know how to work with their unique physiology, know how to understand their hormones, and use this information to make us empowered in our performance, activities, and lives. 

In this episode, we chat about: 

• What's the optimal timing of food in and around training for women to support the training, stress, and recovery from it?
• What’s the best time to exercise?
• Women's hormones and how they change throughout our lives, including periods and menopause.

To learn more, and for the complete show notes, visit: lytyoga.com/blog/category/podcasts/

Resources:

• Instagram: @drstacysims 
• Use code LYTYOGA for 20% off courses on https://www.drstacysims.com/
• Visit tryveganmealprep.com and get 25% off your first order with promo code LYTYOGA
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Welcome to Wednesday Q&A, where you ask questions and we answer them!

In this Wednesday Q&A, we answer your questions about remedies for pain from practicing handstands, how to heal and prevent shin splints, & how to manage scoliosis in your movement practices..

Your questions:

• I'm quite frustrated every time I'm making progress with handstand practice, I'm getting problems and pain in my body that stops me from practicing. It started with tennis elbow where I eventually, after two years of physiotherapy and various other treatments, had to have surgery. This was my right elbow. Now I have tremendous pain on my left side, upper back, shoulder, arm, and hand. Sometimes during the night, I get numbness in my little finger. It seems to be in constant tension and in spasms, twitching the muscles. I love doing handstands and don't want to stop practicing. Is there any advice on what I might be doing wrong?
• Any tips for healing shin splints?
• I have a regular student, previously very active joining my class, a mixed-level class where I do advanced beginner/intermediate level. This is before COVID. Now we are back to a physical, in-person class, and when she started, she felt uncomfortable. The reason being that she has scoliosis and stiffness around her sternum and back. Sometimes costochondritis. She would go running when she's not joining my class. Then she would tell me she felt painful stiff discomfort the next day when it was the day for my class. Hence she was not able to come join. So her pain would occur after running. I tried doing lower-intensity classes when she was around and she felt good and relieved after the session, so I knew that she needed to start slowly to build up the core strength again. Can you take a look at her x-ray and see if it's anything severe that she needs to refrain from doing like other activities, running, or what type of class should I do more for her? Her physio is telling her to stop exercising for a few days. From what I see, it's very mild scoliosis. I'm not sure what has been bothering her and causing all the stiffness and tightness. We do all kinds of LYT blueprints and sequences in class, which I don't think is too much for her.

To learn more, and for the complete show notes, visit: lytyoga.com/blog/category/podcasts/

Do you have a question?

• DM Lara on Instagram: @lara.heimann
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• Email us at [email protected]

Sponsor:

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Former gymnast and competitive cheerleader Dr. Lindsay Massumi didn’t realize her ankle injury was related to her pelvic floor issues. In this episode, Lindsay shares her journey to becoming a doctor of physical therapy, including the discovery of her pelvic floor dysfunction and how this is related to more chronic injuries than you think. 

In this episode, you’ll learn:

* Common impairments that could point to pelvic floor dysfunction

* The difference between abdominal bracing and engaging 

* Why a six pack is unrealistic and completely nonfunctional

Resources Mentioned:

Theraband

Airex Balance Pad

Kegel Exercises

Diastasis Recti

Lindsay’s Instagram post re: bracing vs. engaging

Connect with the Guest:

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/drlindsaymassumi/

Tik Tok - https://www.tiktok.com/@drlindsaymassumi

Twitter - https://twitter.com/lindsaymassumi 

Connect with LYT Daily and Lara Heimann:

Instagram Lara Heimann - https://www.instagram.com/lara.heimann/ 

Linkedin Lara Heimann - https://www.linkedin.com/in/lara-heimann-8a556b13/ 

Twitter Lara Heimann - https://twitter.com/lara_heimann 

Facebook Lara Heimann - https://www.facebook.com/lara.f.heimann 

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Welcome to Wednesday Q&A, where you ask questions and we answer them!

In this Wednesday Q&A, we answer your questions about how best to weight-bear in the hands and strategies to manage dizziness and/or vertigo.

Your questions:

• Referring to the similarities of the tripod of the feet can you and Kristin talk about the position of the hands in weight-bearing and the return of energy that happens here? Thank you!
• I have a friend who complains about feeling dizzy and Vertigo when going upside down and says she needs to avoid it when practicing yoga. There are a lot of ways I can help her modify the practice but this one has got me looking for some “yoga Mama” direction.

To learn more, and for the complete show notes, visit: lytyoga.com/blog/category/podcasts/

Do you have a question?

• DM Lara on Instagram: @lara.heimann
• DM Kristin on Instagram: @kbwilliams99
• Email us at [email protected]

Sponsor:

• Visit tryveganmealprep.com and get 25% off your first order with promo code LYTYOGA

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