You already have Crow Pose. You know how to balance on your hands. You know how to bring your knees onto your arms and find that little moment where your feet stop feeling quite so attached to the floor.

Then you try One-Legged Crow.

You bring one knee onto your arm, start shifting forward, and su...

When most people think about arm balances they could realistically learn, they usually picture the same handful of poses.

Crow. Headstand. Handstand. Maybe Forearm Stand if they're feeling adventurous.

Beyond that, everything starts looking like someone paused Cirque du Soleil halfway through a pe...

I can teach both tripod and bound headstands in the same class and watch the room split clean down the middle.

Half my students float into bound headstand like they've been doing it their whole lives. The other half wrestle with it for a few minutes, switch to tripod, and immediately go, "Ohhh... t...

You've done thousands of poses. Maybe tens of thousands. But here's a question worth sitting with: do you actually know what's happening inside them?

Most of us learn yoga shape by shape. Down dog, warrior, pigeon, repeat.

Eventually, you hit a ceiling where you've been practicing for years but so...

I've watched a lot of students struggle with flying pigeon, and almost every single one of them gets stuck in the exact same spot. They set up the figure-four shape, they get the shin on to the arms, they lean forward, and they manage to get airborne....

...but when they try to release the back leg...

I want you to think about the best yoga class you've ever taken.

Not the hardest. Not the sweatiest. Not the one with the most impressive poses.

The one where something clicked.

Where you arrived at a pose you'd practiced a hundred times before, but somehow it felt completely different. More stab...

If you're in the tight upper body club, there's a good chance Eagle arms feel like a practical joke.

The teacher cheerfully says, "Wrap your arms," and somehow everyone around you manages to stack their elbows, intertwine their forearms, and press their palms together.

Meanwhile, you're standing t...

“Ding!” my computer popped up with a new notification. New email in the inbox.

Since I can’t go 3 minutes without checking my email, I went right to it.

It was from someone I’d been following online for a while about how to grow a Facebook group.

In that email, she introduced me to a guy named Ja...

After I shared my recent article about alternative arm positions in pincha, I got quite a few comments and emails recommending different prop setups for forearm stand (click here if you have not had the chance to check the article out yet!).

A lot of people suggested using straps around the upper a...

For the longest time, I thought my forearm stand problem was a strength problem.

Every time I kicked up into pincha, my elbows would slide apart, my chest would drop toward the floor, and my face would end up much closer to the ground than felt comfortable. No matter how much I tried to “hug everyt...