Redefining Movement

Welcome to Wednesday Q&A, where you ask questions and we answer them!Your questions:After sitting with my knees bent for a while they hurt, and the pain goes away when straightening them. What’s going on and how can I correct it?My right hip goes deeper into hip flexion and tilts anteriorly more than the left when I’m at a 90/90 low lunge. Where do I begin?Where do you put the lower leg in a modified side plank? Parallel to the mat or out to the side?Do you have any rituals or traditions to bring in the new year?What do you do to keep deepening your knowledge and practice?To learn more, and for the complete show notes, visit: lytyoga.comDo you have a question?DM me on Instagram: @lara.heimannEmail me at lara@lytyoga.comResources:Visit tryveganmealprep.com and use code LYTYOGA for 25% off your first orderRedefining Yoga is a production of Crate Media Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

With the increasing popularity of practices like mindfulness, yoga, and breathwork, people in the Western world are thinking about their breath more than ever — and more intentionally than ever. But not only is it necessary for life, the rhythm of our breath has countless effects on our bodies. We’re going to explore how your breath can be used to say “yes” more in your life.Take a moment to ask yourself: What is one insight or lesson that I’ve learned this past week, month, or year? And what am I grateful for right now? And take a few deep breaths and think on that. This allows us to be present, to be clear, and to be reminded of the lessons of the past.To learn more, and for the complete show notes, visit: lytyoga.comResources:Instagram: @lara.heimannVisit tryveganmealprep.com and use code LYTYOGA for 25% off your first orderRedefining Yoga is a production of Crate Media Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Simon Holloway is the sales and marketing director of Vegepod, a self-watering portable garden bed. Lara is a huge fan (she’s been using them a LOT this year), and they talk about how the business came about and what it’s like running a small business during the pandemic. Simon also talks about how appearing on Shark Tank brought a huge boost to the business, why the product appeals more to seasoned gardeners than the inexperienced gardener, and the benefits of growing your own garden.To learn more, and for the complete show notes, visit: lytyoga.comResources:vegepod.comInstagram: @vegepodRedefining Yoga is a production of Crate Media Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome to Wednesday Q&A, where you ask questions and we answer them!Your questions:Why do so many physios and other yoga teachers with more formal education disagree on modifications to traditional yoga poses to make them more optimal and safer for the general population?Do you believe that foot problems can be reversed?Women who always wear heels and find flats painful, did their fascia adjust and just bind up?In yoga, the emphasis is on not going into more thoracic extension. Is that the goal?To learn more, and for the complete show notes, visit: lytyoga.comDo you have a question?DM me on Instagram: @lara.heimannEmail me at lara@lytyoga.comResources:Use code LYTFRIEND for 20% off SPRY products at sprytherapeutics.comThis podcast has been brought to you in part by Spry Therapeutics.Redefining Yoga is a production of Crate Media Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The essence of what we teach in the yoga world is the balance of Sthira and Sukha, or the hard and the soft.We can apply this concept to our body and our movement, but we can also apply it to our mind. Where in your life do you need to firm up? Where do you need to soften? Because when we find this balance, we are at ease.To learn more, and for the complete show notes, visit: lytyoga.comResources:Instagram: @lara.heimannStart a free trial at lytyoga.comGet 25% off your first order at tryveganmealprep.com with code LYTYOGARedefining Yoga is a production of Crate Media Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this special holiday celebration, we have the whole LYT™ Yoga family here with us!We all have questions for each other, so we can all get to know each other a little better—and you get to know all of us! And make sure to listen until the end, because we have a special surprise for all of you.To learn more, and for the complete show notes, visit: lytyoga.comResources:Get 25% off your first order at tryveganmealprep.com with code LYTYOGARedefining Yoga is a production of Crate Media Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome to Wednesday Q&A, where you ask questions and we answer them!Your questions:Dealing with lots of back pain. What should I do to get rid of it?I’m stiff when I wake up. Should I do yoga right away or wait an hour to warm up or loosen up?Suggestion to keep the neutral pelvis during hikes. After hours my shoulders get sore.What’s the difference between neutral pelvis and tucking pelvis?What’s your experience with FAI (femoroacetabular impingement) and how important is it to look at foot function and the pelvis?To learn more, and for the complete show notes, visit: lytyoga.comDo you have a question?DM me on Instagram: @lara.heimannEmail me at lara@lytyoga.comResources:Use code LYTFRIEND for 20% off SPRY products at sprytherapeutics.comRedefining Yoga is a production of Crate Media Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

You are probably not pandiculating enough.What is pandiculation? Imagine a cat or dog when they get up after a long nap: They stretch out, tails up, claws out. Pandiculation is that act of stretching upon waking up, and it’s an inborn response that all vertebrates have. But somewhere along the way in our lives, we stop that pandiculating. But there are ways that you can learn to restore posture and movement again.To learn more, and for the complete show notes, visit: lytyoga.comResources:Instagram: @lara.heimannRedefining Yoga is a production of Crate Media Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Meredith Clemmons is a certified LYT™ Yoga teacher who is getting her masters degree in public health at George Washington University. Specifically, Meredith is studying global environmental health and looking at how the environment influences human health — because climate change is one of the biggest environmental factors that will affect our health in the coming years and decades — and we talk about the different ways that climate can impact our health all over the world.To learn more, and for the complete show notes, visit: lytyoga.comResources:Instagram: @mclemyogaRedefining Yoga is a production of Crate Media Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome to Wednesday Q&A, where you ask questions and we answer them!Your questions:Neural pathway training is so much more efficient than just weight training, can you explain why?What to modify when you have a previously-broken sacrum or coccyx?I’m struggling to activate the glute of my back leg in twisted crescent due to anterior tilt, how do I modify it?What are the best things to do when my motivation to move is zero in times of grief and sadness?What do we want rectus abdominis doing during the reset at work?To learn more, and for the complete show notes, visit: lytyoga.comDo you have a question?DM me on Instagram: @lara.heimannEmail me at lara@lytyoga.comRedefining Yoga is a production of Crate Media Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.