Redefining Movement

Sleep. Everyone needs it, but not everyone gets it. We’re talking good, quality, restful sleep. Devin Burke, a sleep expert, was first introduced to this extremely complex phenomenon when doing some research for a friend. The only solution he found was sleeping pills. Refusing to believe this was the answer, Devin found himself going down the rabbit hole of how sleep is the foundation of health and what people can do to improve it.

In this episode, Lara talks with Devin about insomnia, the many different forms it can take, and practices people can incorporate into their lifestyles to get better sleep. Along the way you’ll learn the myths society spreads and how quality sleep can be attained with a little biological and psychological mindfulness.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

* The different types of insomnia and what they mean

* How to evaluate your feelings and improve your sleep health 

* How meditation and mindfulness can help you dig deeper 

Resources Mentioned:

The Sleep Advantage by Devin Burke

Devin’s TedX Talk: The ROI of Sleep

Free Sleep Series

Devin’s Blog

Connect with the Guest:

Website - http://www.devinburke.com/ 

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

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/devinburkewellness/ 

Twitter - https://twitter.com/FL_HealthGuru 

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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 breathing patterns and weightlifting.

Your questions:

* My dad died last week. I sat with him the three days before he passed. As he lost responsivenes halfway through the first day, he began a labored breathing. The hospice nurse called it breath starvation. He was gurgling on inhaling like a wet snore. He worked steadily with each breath, as you can imagine, someone bailing a sinking boat. He had no choice but to keep at it. Whereas for a healthy person, the diaphragm descends on inhale, pushing the belly out, and rises on exhale and the belly collapses. Dad's reversed its action. His chest rose with each struggle to inhale and his belly expanded with the exhale. The next morning, they gave him a medicine to dry him up and his breathing became less labored. And the movement of his diaphragm was less obvious. Do you know why the diaphragm reverses its movement when someone struggles to breathe? 

* When doing abdominals work, why breathe out as you lift up?

* Is weightlifting still important to do, even if you do LYT? 

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

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Join Lara for a chat with Annemiek Dunhof, founder of Engaunite, which combines speaking English and teaching yoga. Annie has a background as both an English teacher and a yoga instructor. She discovered a niche in combining these two skill sets to help people who speak other languages teach yoga in English in order to maximize their reach in the world. She has developed both in-person and online courses to guide people to become more comfortable with teaching in English so they can have more freedom in where and who they teach. 

In this episode, you’ll learn:

* About teaching English to multilingual yogis 

* About learning business skills

* About finding courage in being yourself as a yoga teacher

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

Resources:

https://www.annemiekdunhof.com/

https://engaunite.com/

Instagram: @engaunite

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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 knee pain from cycling, LYT love, and dowager's hump.

Your questions:

* I took up cycling in February of this year and LOVED IT, so had cycled most days since then as I use it to commute across London to my classes. This was up until about a month ago when I started to experience tenderness in what I believe to be my quadriceps tendon. Initially, the pain wasn't so bad and I noticed that my bike seat had slipped down slightly. So assuming this was the problem, I shifted it back into place and continued to cycle. However, following that, the pain suddenly worsened in my right knee and I'm now taking time away from the bike to let the tendon heal; at one point, I couldn't bend the knee more than 90 degrees. It felt like a tight pressure right above the knee being squashed. The pain seems to be easing now, although definitely doesn't feel linear. I'm working on strengthening the muscles around the knee, the glutes, the hip flexors, the hamstrings, and trying to work out why this happened. I know it could be my bike positioning, so that is something I'm going to take a look at once it feels safe to get back on the bike just to see how I'm riding. But I'm wondering if there are mechanics elsewhere in the chain that I should be looking at. I have pretty good ankle dorsiflexion and hip flexion, but maybe I'm lacking strength in one of these areas. Any help on how to rehab the knee as well as how to tell where the imbalance is coming from would be massively appreciated. 

* LYT has changed my life. How do you all keep giving so much?

* What are the best poses for dowagers hump?

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

Do you have a question?

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Dr. Chelsea Roberts fainted in her first yoga class. Keeping with it, Chelsea focused her attention and came to revel in how yoga made her feel and how this practice created benefits for the other pieces of her life. Trained in child development with a Ph.D. in educational studies, she is wired for teaching and has found herself as a prominent yoga and meditation teacher and Peloton instructor.

In this episode, Lara talks with Chelsea about her journey into yoga, her path as Founder of the Yoga, Literature, & Art Camp for Teen Girls at Spelman College, and how she became such a fierce advocate for yoga and literature for marginalized youth. They discuss her DNA as a teacher, her impending motherhood, and how yoga has guided her path to being a parent.  

In this episode, you’ll learn:

* How yoga literature can inspire the young

* How music can affect your practice and your soul

* The importance of the right partner in parenthood

Resources Mentioned:

Yoga, Literature, and Art Camp at Spelman College 

Patanjali’s Sutras

Peloton

Connect with the Guest:

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

Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/chelsealovesyoga/

Twitter - https://twitter.com/chelseajaya 

Connect with LYT Daily and Lara Heimann:

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

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

Instagram LYT Yoga - https://www.instagram.com/lytyogamethod/

Facebook LYT Yoga - https://www.facebook.com/lytyogamethod 

Sponsor:

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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 wide to place your hands in down dog, splitting classes up, and anatomy knowledge.

Your questions:

• I'm five-seven, but my arms are really long. I'm not kidding, from fingertip to fingertip I have a six-foot wingspan. When I'm in downward dog, it feels better for me to open my arms wider than shoulder-width apart by a few inches. Is this bad for my shoulders or is it okay to do? I saw Kristin in a recent class saying that she sometimes opens her arms wider in down dog to give her more space. But I don't know if it that's something that you can do just a little bit from time to time or is it okay to do all the time?
• I love the classes that are longer on LYT Daily, but I sometimes don't have time to do the whole thing in one go, so I'll do 35 minutes or so in the morning and then pause and do the rest of the class in the evening. I know that there wouldn't be as much of a warm-up for the second half, but are there any reasons not to do this? And do I still get the benefit of the full class if I split it up into two parts? 
• How did you learn and retain so much knowledge about the human body?

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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Color is vibration. It is movement, it is language. Walaa is a certified color mentor and therapist and Founder of Color Ways. She works with her clients to transform their lives and guide them on their journey with color to help them become their best selves.

In this episode, Lara talks with Walaa about her personal journey into the world of color and how she can help individuals gain a sense of renewed confidence, more happiness, and a better life balance– all through color. They discuss what colors mean, Lara’s color archetype, and how you can find your own color archetype.

Resources Mentioned:

https://color-ways.com/

Use code LARAH for 15% off a color therapy session

Color Archetype Quiz

Connect with the Guest:

Instagram Walaa - https://www.instagram.com/walaa.colorways/?hl=en 

Instagram Color Ways Academy - https://www.instagram.com/colorways.academy/?hl=en 

Connect with LYT Daily and Lara Heimann:

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

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

Instagram LYT Yoga - https://www.instagram.com/lytyogamethod/

Facebook LYT Yoga - https://www.facebook.com/lytyogamethod 

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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 carrying angles, kneeling, and nerve pain in yoga.

Your questions:

• There is a popular yoga teacher who preaches about how the carrying angle of the forearm means that most people need to place their hands wider on the mat, thus wider than their shoulders in poses like down dog and plank. My logic is telling me this… yes, when the arm is in anatomical neutral, the carrying angle makes the hands wider than the shoulders. But when the forearm pronates like it does when you put the palms on the mat, does that mostly erase the carrying angle so that we should still align wrists under shoulders generally? What are your thoughts?
• My students really struggle with the transition from quadruped to half kneel and can't spend much time in any kneeling posture. Any tips or transitions through quadruped or to help them spend more time in a healthy and supported way on their knees? We use double mats and blankets under the knees as much as possible, but the limitations remain.
• I've been a yoga teacher since 2017 and an athlete my entire life. I had a tubing injury in 2012, and I do think that's impacted my SI joint. I always had issues as a hockey player, but the nerve issues only got bad with yoga. I took time off during COVID and my nerve issues improved, so I knew yoga made it worse. Getting back in, I practice now. I was more mindful in twists and bends, etc. But last week I had a severe episode and my osteopath told me my sacrum was rotated left. She did some work on it and my pain is now one out of ten, instead of ten out of ten. I couldn't sit, stand, or lie down without pain through my left lower back and glutes. I listened to some of your podcast episode episodes on anatomy. I'm curious how I can better protect myself from this happening again and often. I think backbends are the main trigger, but also deep forward folds and poses like half pigeon, extended slight angle with a bind, and even single leg airplane pose, and half moon on that side. In the warrior series, should I keep a wider stance and turn the back toe more toward the front and in warrior two, etc.? I appreciate your insight.

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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Join Lara for a discussion with Dr. Robert Wolfe, director of the Center for Translational Research on Aging and Longevity at the University of Arkansas. Dr. Wolfe is both a scientist and a long-distance runner. His research is focused on the regulation of muscle metabolism and he shares how amino acids might be able to help your performance and recovery, as well as, how they can help with aging. He has developed products for Amino Company which are built on amino acid technology first funded by NASA and further refined through rigorous research and independent clinical trials.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• what are amino acids and why are they important?
• about the products that Dr. Wolfe has developed and patented so you can take advantage of his research. 
• important amino acid considerations if you’re vegan and/or getting older.

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

Resources:

Shop my favorite 100% Science-Backed Amino Acid Supplements. Enter code "LYT" to save 30%. aminoco.com/LYT 

Dr. Robert Wolfe’s publications

Dr. Robert Wolfe’s info at Arkansas State University

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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 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. 

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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