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  • 605. Wednesday Q&A: Teaching Advice, Handstands, & Multifidus Muscle

    605. Wednesday Q&A: Teaching Advice, Handstands, & Multifidus Muscle

     

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

     

    In this Wednesday Q&A, we answer your questions about teaching advice, handstands, and the multifidus muscle. 

     

    Your questions:

    • I’m on maternity leave from teaching right now. And some of my quiet time I spend evaluating my teaching, classes, etc. I’ve been journaling about my strengths and teaching, but also my weaknesses, how I experience them. One of the things I really want to work on is not being such a perfectionist with my students. Sometimes I have a hard time keeping the flow in the class because I want everyone to get it just right and really feel it. I can sense that some really thrive with it, but others get bored and lose interest. What is your and Kristin’s advice on how to balance the two – helping students, but also keeping a good flow?
    • I love doing handstands and various other primal movements involving weight-bearing through the wrists. While not a debilitating injury, I have noticed pain in my ulnar side wrist on both sides when taking my wrist through a supination motion. My research indicates that this may be an injury to the triangular fibrocartilage complex, a common injury that gymnasts and calisthenic practitioners experience. Do either of you have experienced treating this type of injury? What would you recommend I start doing to improve this?
    • Why had I never heard about the multifidus muscle through decades of back care? Would you be willing to discuss or demo exercises focusing on the multifidus? 

     

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  • 604. The Hard and Messy Reality of Being an Entrepreneur with Tiffany Sauder

    604. The Hard and Messy Reality of Being an Entrepreneur with Tiffany Sauder

    Entrepreneurship is a big world, and Tiffany Sauder, CEO of Element Three approaches it with grace, authenticity, and hard work. In this episode, Lara talks with Tiffany about her journey as a businesswoman and mother of four and what it’s taken for her to reach the personal goals she set for herself.

     

    It’s a deep conversation about the balance of career and family, the engineering of a sustainable lifestyle, and the tools Tiffany uses to run her business and her household. Your host Lara also shares aspects of her own personal journey as an entrepreneur and a mother. Tiffany offers advice on starting out as an entrepreneur as well as her marketing thoughts for businesses, all while emphasizing the importance of perseverance and a positive attitude.

     

    In this episode, you’ll learn:

    • Tiffany’s background as the child of an entrepreneur, growing up in a high-achieving household, and how that impacted her journey to entrepreneurship
    • How Tiffany juggles the responsibilities of motherhood with a working household, and ultimately the importance of her “yeses” to create a more sustainable life
    • Marketing thoughts from Tiffany on ways to differentiate yourself in the marketplace

     

     

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  • 603. Wednesday Q&A: Neck Crunching Sounds, Spinal Manipulation, & Pyramid Pose

    603. Wednesday Q&A: Neck Crunching Sounds, Spinal Manipulation, & Pyramid Pose

     

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

     

    In this Wednesday Q&A, we answer your questions about neck crunching sounds, spinal manipulation, and pyramid pose. 

     

    Your questions:

    • A couple of weeks ago I was practicing a class on LYT Daily. After doing a neck release with the block right afterwards getting out of the pose, I can hear around C1 and C2 there’s a crunching sound, pretty loud. It’s been a few weeks now. I’m not so worried about it as it is not hurting me or affecting me in any way except for the loud sound when I rotate my neck to the left/right as well when I do shoulder rolls. What do you think might have happened and do you think this sound will ever go away?
    • I’ve been wondering what you think about “specialists” who manipulate each other’s spines. Is this safe and does it help in any way? What kind of method is it? I know enough about physiology and anatomy, and for me, it seems to be dangerous. There are a lot of videos like this on social media and it is disturbing. They do a show out of these cracks and popping sounds.
    • I have long legs and a short torso. Because of this, I find in some poses, like Pyramid, I can’t keep my ribs off of my thighs without using blocks. But if I look back on videos of my practice, I do feel like my spine is neutral even without the blocks. However, I know that we receive cues to keep the ribs away from the legs in poses like that. Is it an issue that my ribs are on my thighs if I’m staying integrated in my core? 

     

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  • 602. Discover Your Inner Rainbow with Carly Mentlik

    602. Discover Your Inner Rainbow with Carly Mentlik

     

    Join Lara for a conversation with Carly Mentlik, a licensed holistic psychotherapist, yoga teacher, founder of the Inner Rainbow Project, and single mom. Hear about Carly’s journey to starting a business specializing in introducing the chakra system to children to help them connect to their intuition and find their inner spirit. 

     

    In this episode, you’ll learn:

    • what are the chakras
    • how can the chakras help us to better understand ourselves (both kids and adults)
    • advice to parents about understanding their own children’s inner chakra system

     

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

     

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  • 601. Wednesday Q&A: The Foot Episode

    601. Wednesday Q&A: The Foot Episode

     

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

     

    In this Wednesday Q&A, we answer your questions about heel pain, bone spurs, and more foot pain. 

     

    Your questions:

    • I have this new thing happening since being pregnant. Not sure if one has to do with the other. When I flex my right foot, I feel a painful, almost pinprick sensation in my right heel. This happens when I step forward into a low lunge and when I do standing L with my right foot forward. Any thoughts on what could be causing this and suggestions on how to heal my heel? 
    • Can you speak about why bone spurs happen and is there anything one can do to get rid of them besides surgery?
    • I’ve had problems with my feet for a few weeks. It started with pain in the left heel. Then I redeveloped bunions on the outside of the foot joint of the little toe. I had these last winter, probably because of my shoes. I did a lot of foot exercises, toe cars, arch strengthening, etc. and I’m wearing a toe spacer almost every night. Throughout the summer, I was almost always barefoot and had no problems at all. Even when hiking for hours and hours in rigid hiking shoes. The bunions and the pain came when I first had to wear shoes again because of the weather. I wear the shoes of my flatmate because she has bigger feet and it felt better to have more space. I just wore them for like 10 to 20 minutes, a few days a week when going to the grocery store or something like that. I work from home, so I’m barefoot all the time. After a few days I had this weird heel pain and the joint of my little toes started to hurt as well as become red and swollen. I immediately stopped wearing my flatmate’s shoes and bought my first pair of Vivo barefoot shoes. Now I’ve been working on my hip mobility and glutes, hips, pelvis function a lot lately. Maybe this has something to do with that. It feels like it came out of nowhere. But I listen to enough of your podcast and know that nothing really comes out of nowhere. I have no idea what to do and or to what kind of physician I could go as my experiences with orthopedists aren’t very encouraging to do that again. I would love to hear your opinions and I’m thankful, as always, for every tip and idea.

     

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

     

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  • 600. Actualizing The Stressless Brain with Madhur-Nain Webster

    600. Actualizing The Stressless Brain with Madhur-Nain Webster

    With the stresses, overstimulation, and seemingly endless movement and rush of modern-day life, learning to calm and harness your mind is more important than ever. In this episode, Lara talks about this with Madhur-Nain Webster, author of The Stressless Brain, Kundalini meditation instructor, and licensed marriage and family therapist.

     

    Growing up in an ashram, Webster’s early life was shaped by a yoga and mindfulness lifestyle. As a family therapist, she has combined this with her love of science to offer tools and ideas on how to determine what the body needs, how to be comfortable in confrontation, and the importance of repetition in our lives.

     

    As a bonus and thank you to our listeners, Madhur-Nain Webster is graciously offering anyone who listens to this episode on the day of release, a free physical copy of her book, The Stressless Brain. If you miss out on launch day, don’t worry! Anyone who listens after launch day can receive a free digital copy.

     

    Stressless Brain Physical Book Page:

    www.madhurnain.com/freebook

     

    Stressless Brain E-Book Page:

    www.madhurnain.com/ebook

     

    In this episode, you’ll learn:

    • How stress and anxiety impact your entire body, mind, and soul
    • How practicing meditation can help you calm your mind and regain your power
    • The power of chanting meditation and how we can make this more mainstream

     

     

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  • 599. Wednesday Q&A: Yoga Butt, Arthritis of the Big Toe, & Bunionectomies

    599. Wednesday Q&A: Yoga Butt, Arthritis of the Big Toe, & Bunionectomies

     

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

     

    In this Wednesday Q&A, we answer your questions about yoga butt, arthritis of the big toe, and bunionectomies. 

     

    Your questions:

    • I have a history of yoga butt syndrome, spinal stenosis on the right side, and spondylolisthesis of which the LYT method has pretty much cured me of now for over a year. After practicing your Touching Your Toes is Overrated class. My right hamstring has been killing ever since. It doesn’t feel the same nerve irritation pain I used to get. I’ve still been able to practice handstands and other forms of exercise, but it is just nagging. Does this mean it is weak and I need to do the class more? Or was I likely doing something wrong in the class to irritate it? Should I be doing something other than my typical practice to get it to settle down? 
    • On the first day of yoga teacher training with you in 2015, when we all share with you any physical symptoms that you as our teacher should be aware of, I mentioned slight pain in my left big toe as a result of a chiropractor pulling it out of alignment. It’s seven years later and I have arthritis now in the toe or metatarsal. I’ve never had it looked at, but now it causes me pain every day. I think I’m altering the way I walk, walking more on the outside of the foot. And as a result, I’m experiencing pain in the arch. Will forcing it through movement help or hurt in the long run? For instance, knee taps from high crescent lunge when the left foot is back and I point my toes and come up and down off the top of my foot. Would it be better to do it with the toes curled under to exercise through the full range of motion, even though it’s painful? Sometimes I even keep the top of the foot down a second time through sun salutation 1 because of the pain. I just read on Mayo Clinic about arthritis in general. It said to avoid jumping. Right now, jumping doesn’t seem to hurt my toe. Arthritis is lifelong pain, right? Or might it improve? Please advise.
    • Could you speak a bit more extensively about plates in the toes and removed bunions, or what we call bunionectomies, and how it affects movement?

     

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  • 598. Monthly Motivation: Embracing the Darkness

    598. Monthly Motivation: Embracing the Darkness

     

    How do we embrace the darkness? Listen to Lara’s thoughts about the best way to approach and gracefully move through the darker months of the year. Learn ways to better support yourself so that you can still operate at your full potential. 

     

    E – enter with awareness

     

    M – mindfulness

     

    B – bolster your system

     

    R – reduce the impact

     

    A – allow the feelings without amplifying them

     

    C – commit to movement

     

    E – enjoy the shifts and the challenges that happen

     

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