Sensational Yoga Poses Blog

Anatomy: Stabilizing the Ribcage for Greater Arm Strength
Why the lower half of the ribcage is flexible, and how to make it more stable when you need to.

Simple Postures for Stretching Your Hamstrings
Playing a type of Jenga while stretching your hamstrings plus some tips for creating stability within your body.

SI Joint Stability in Marichyasana. Making Hip Position Less Relevant.

Anterior Hip Pain, some simple principles for dealing with pain in general, and also pain at the front of the hip during hip flexion.

Mindful Muscle Control, it's a way of protecting your joints, improving strength and flexibility and a way of becoming more present.

Beginning a Yoga Practice that helps you learn to better feel your body and control it.

Arm Balance videos. A collection of Arm Balance Videos from my youtube channel including: Crow, Flying Splits, Astavakrasana and Mayurasana.

Yoga Pose Inversion videos. A collection of Inverted Yoga Pose videos from my youtube channel including: Shoulderstand and Plow, Headstand and Handstand.

Yoga Balance Videos. Some balance videos from my youtube channel including:

• Weight Shifting,
• Balancing on One Foot,
• Balancing on the Forefeet,
• Forefoot Balancing Peterson squat,
• Forefoot Balancing Double Leg Squat,
• Pistol Squat,
• Single Leg Standing Forward Bend.

Sartorius Inner Knee Pain. One way to prevent inner knee pain while running is to resist the sartorius muscle. It may also help to "take out the slack" from the sartorius.

Shin rotations are one way to learn better awareness of your feet and heels so that you can stabilize them to help protect your knees.

For better Knee Joint stability it can help to first understand how the knee works.

Tibialis Anterior can help anchor the front of the IT Band.

Peroneus Brevis Can help stabilize the outer edge of the foot.

Peroneus Longus can help to anchor the biceps femoris.

Tibialis Posterior is one of the key muscles for forming the arch of the foot.

Learn how you can use your hips (as well as your spinal muscles) for a deepr standing spinal twist.
Standing Spinal Twist

Knee pain can occur around the insertion of the IT band into the Tiba.
Suggestions for Preventing IT Band Knee Pain

Muscles of the legs from hip bone to toes that you can learn to feel and control:
Sensational Leg Anatomy

12 Variations of Bird dog to improve body awareness, strength and balance.

8 Reasons to do Standing Yoga Poses

Active Back Bending Poses for your Spine and Hips

Middle Splits
Stabilizing your knees may help you go deeper.

Surya Namaskar Steps
(to make learning it easier)

Hurdlers Stretch
(Stretching Hip or Hamstring and keeping the knee safe)

Getting Rid of the Ego
(How to learn Kung Fu or Inner Skill)

Astavakrasana Yoga Arm Balance

11 Basic Balance Poses

Ideas for turning balance into a general skill along with two simple exercises for learning how to balance.

Learning the One Legged Pistol Squat

Balancing in Side Plank
(stabilizing your foot and also feeling it).

Eka Pada Bakasana
the transition from Marichyasana A

SI Joint Stabilization, How to stabilize the SI Joints whether the sacrum is nutated or counter-nutated using the Multifidus, Pelvic floor muscles and lower band of the Transverse Abdominus.

Hydrostatic Lubrication of Articular Joints
Reducing wear so that your joints function better and last longer

controlling tension in the IT Band
(How it helps to stabilize the Hip)

Serratus Posterior Inferior
anchor your lats, stabilize the lower ribcage.

The foot (with links to articles on stabilizing against shin rotation)

Levator Costarum
(Lifting the back ribs to improve ribcage awareness and control)