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  • 645. Monthly Motivation: Why Posture Matters

    645. Monthly Motivation: Why Posture Matters

     

    Here at LYT YogaⓇ Method, we believe that posture matters! In this episode founder Lara Heimann weighs in on “the great posture debate.” She’ll share with you all the reasons why, even if posture isn’t always directly linked to pain in medical research studies, you should care about and pay attention to your posture. Learn how posture is defined and how best to optimize your posture. Your posture matters whether you are currently in pain or not because it directly affects your movement potential. Listen in to hear more!

     

    P – postural control 

     

    O – optimize your posture

     

    S – sensorial feedback 

     

    T – train developmental patterns

     

    U – unusual movement

     

    R – repetition

     

    E – energy

     

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

     

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  • 644. Non-Surgical Approach to Healing Back Pain with Dr. Greg Lutz

    644. Non-Surgical Approach to Healing Back Pain with Dr. Greg Lutz

    Non-Surgical Approach to Healing Back Pain with Dr. Greg Lutz

    Join Lara for a conversation with Dr. Greg Lutz about how regenerative orthopedic medicine can be used to effectively treat degenerative disc disease.

     

    Dr. Greg Lutz is the founder of the Regenerative SportsCare Institute, Physiatrist-in-Chief Emeritus at Hospital for Special Surgery, and a professor of clinical rehabilitation medicine at Weill Medical College of Cornell University. 

     

    In this episode, you’ll learn about:

    • Dr. Lutz’s newly released book Heal Your Disc, End Your Pain: How Regenerative Medicine Can Save Your Spine.
    • the difference between surgical and regenerative orthopedic medicine.
    • what PRP is and how it could help heal your spine. 
    • the difference between a slipped and herniated disc.
    • tips to help keep your spine healthy.

     

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  • 643. Wednesday Q&A: Adrenal Fatigue, Clunking Hip, & Oblique Release

    643. Wednesday Q&A: Adrenal Fatigue, Clunking Hip, & Oblique Release

     

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

     

    In this Wednesday Q&A, we answer your questions about what to do for adrenal fatigue, what is going on when you feel a clunk in your hip, and how to release tight obliques. 

     

    Your questions:

    • I have a long-term acquaintance who told me she has adrenal fatigue. She confided that long-term stress and life has brought this on. She’s approximately 60 years of age. Any suggestions? I would dearly love to help her and wonder what you might suggest. Does she need to get on top of her fatigue before we might be able to do some gentle LYT yoga? She is under medical and naturopathic treatment. She previously had been exercising, unsure what she was doing, but hasn’t done anything for quite a while.
    • What is the clunk in one hip that sometimes happens while doing ab work lying on the back?
    • Do you know how to release a contracted side oblique? It seems one has learned to hold very strongly and is only convinced to relax via exercises. 

     

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  • 642. Purposeful Patient-Centered Practice with Dr. Natty Bandasak

    642. Purposeful Patient-Centered Practice with Dr. Natty Bandasak

     

    Join Lara for a fascinating and wide-ranging conversation with fellow physical therapist Dr. Natty Bandasak PT, DPT, CSCS, PN-1. A back injury over 20 years ago led Natty down the road to becoming a doctor of physical therapy. After working in a traditional PT clinic, treating 3-4 patients an hour, he realized that the healthcare system is broken and doesn’t prioritize patients enough. In 2018 he opened Myokinetix Therapy and Performance, in East Hanover, New Jersey, where he and his team pursue his vision of a patient-centric practice.

     

    In this episode, you will learn about:

    • Natty’s lifelong journey into fitness and wellness. 
    • how his clinic, Myokinetix Therapy and Performance, is different than corporate physical therapy clinics. 
    • why we should be thinking about and working to improve our healthspan. 
    • why finding purpose and alignment with core values is more fulfilling than striving for happiness as an end goal.
    • the importance of adding more movement and movement variety in your life for long-term health. 

     

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

     

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  • 641. Wednesday Q&A: Tips for Confidence, Retraining Weak Glutes, & LYT to Rebalance Your Nervous System

    641. Wednesday Q&A: Tips for Confidence, Retraining Weak Glutes, & LYT to Rebalance Your Nervous System

     

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

     

    In this Wednesday Q&A, we answer your questions about tips for teaching confidence, retraining weak glutes after hip replacements, and LYT Yoga to rebalance your nervous system. 

     

    Your questions:

    • Tips for confidence? I’m the only LYT teacher in the studio. For example, a student leaving during class. 
    • I have a question about a new student who tripped and broke her femur in the summer. She’s in her sixties and had gotten both hips replaced maybe two years before she fell. She’s been doing PT for a while and we just started doing privates once a week. I have a general idea of what to do from level two training and Google, but would love any tips or advice. She’s not as tight as I assume she would be, but her glutes are super weak. She also has some pretty intense scars from her most recent hip surgery and redo of her hip replacement. 
    • Michelle wonders what a what would a LYT class yin-style look like? How would the conversation of the body feel in LYT, maybe blissful? We have Bliss classes, but Bliss feels focused on the restorative aspect of movement.

     

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

     

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  • 640. Neutral Spine Alignment with BAKBŌN Founder/CEO Dan Craytor

    640. Neutral Spine Alignment with BAKBŌN Founder/CEO Dan Craytor

     

    Join Lara for a conversation with BAKBŌN Founder and CEO Dan Craytor. BAKBŌN is an adjustable, hands-free tool to help you keep your spine in a neutral position, promoting better posture and back health. This tool aligns well with Lara’s concept of the Triple S to help you find a neutral spine in LYT YogaⓇ. Dan wanted to create something that would give him feedback on his spinal alignment during activity. Out of this desire, the BAKBŌN device was born.

     

    In this episode, you’ll learn about:

     

    • Dan’s story and how he became interested in movement in the body and mechanics.
    • what the BAKBŌN device is like and what it is like to use it.
    • the importance of posture and postural feedback during movement. 

     

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

     

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  • 639. Wednesday Q&A: Glute Activation, Long Thoracic Nerve Palsy, & Whole-Food Diet

    639. Wednesday Q&A: Glute Activation, Long Thoracic Nerve Palsy, & Whole-Food Diet

     

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

     

    In this Wednesday Q&A, we answer your questions about glute activation in movements, whether Bikram yoga is advisable when you have long thoracic nerve palsy, and the meaning of a whole-food diet. 

     

    Your questions:

    • From Conor Harris on Instagram: When I hear that squeezing your glutes will help them grow or activate more… Hold up! One of the biggest myths in the fitness industry is that more sensation equals more and better activation of the muscles, so what you should feel after Taco Bell and not every hip-dominant exercise. So the problem with actively squeezing your glutes throughout an exercise is that you are going to keep them in a shortened position throughout the entire movement. Take a hip thrust, for example… the bottom position of the hip thrust is one of hip internal rotation where the back of the pelvis opens up and the glutes stretch. The push shortens the glutes as they close off the back of the pelvis and create hip extension and external rotation. This stretch to contract is a huge driver of mechanical tension and muscle damage needed for hypertrophy. Because the glutes wrap around the pelvis and attach on the femur, opening the outlet for the stretch is key. This applies to many different exercises such as squats, deadlifts, and even more basic glute bridges.
      So what he’s saying is muscles should activate and contract because they are moving to create a necessary joint position. Keeping the muscle in a shortened position will not only throw off the mechanics of the joint, but limit your gains around it. So he’s going to say that’s why you shouldn’t keep a band around your legs while you’re going it like holding it there while doing bridges. You shouldn’t be doing the sidestepping, keeping that tension because you’re keeping the muscles in a shortened position. What are your last thoughts about this?
    • Do you think Bikram is good to do when I have a long thoracic nerve palsy? I’ve had it many, many, many years ago and it seems like it just acted up again. 
    • Do you have an explanation of what it means to eat a whole-food diet? I think a lot of people don’t understand what that means and why it makes a difference in your body. 

     

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

     

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  • 638. Serving your Body and Mind with Physical Therapist Jill Zimmerman

    638. Serving your Body and Mind with Physical Therapist Jill Zimmerman

     

    Dr. Jill Zimmerman is a Physical Therapist, mother, wife, business owner, Instagram educator, and critical thinker. Jill has special interests in hyper-mobility syndromes and how trauma and stress show up in the body and influence both pain and movement.

     

    In this episode, she talks with Lara about her background, how pain response ties directly with stress and trauma, why you should keep moving even if you’re experiencing pain, benefiting your body through cross-training, paying attention to breathing, pelvic floor support, and maximizing your ability to move. Listen to hear Jill’s passion for PT and her tips for living your most mobile, healthy life – mentally and physically.

     

    In this episode, you will learn the following:

    1. Pain Response: stress and trauma play a big role on elevating the body’s pain response. So can the lack of sleep and hunger you are experiencing!
    2. Movement Modification: if you want to keep exercising while in pain to get the benefits, do it! But in order to heal, you have to modify your movements.
    3. Breath work: Breath work has a wide range of benefits all the way from improving joints, relationships between muscles, and expanding areas of pressure in the body. This needs to be practiced everyday!

     

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

     

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