Category: Wednesday Q&A

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

Your questions:

• Question about my right outer hip/glute medius. I’ve always had super tight outer hips. When I go for a hike, that’s the first place that starts to complain/ache. Is it a question of doing more strengthening of the abductors or more and the right kind of stretches?
• What would you recommend to do for diastasis recti after pregnancy?
• What are your thoughts on aerial yoga?
• Can you explain what nerve flossing does?
• Tips for people who got COVID and now movement seems almost impossible?
• Why do you reference the sides of the mat as east and west? Is there a benefit to mat placement?

Do you have a question?

• DM me on Instagram: @lara.heimann
• Email me at lara@old.lytyoga.com

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

Your questions:

• Have you heard about the bowspring yoga method?
• Thoughts on running for exercise or recommendations for proper form?
• Thoughts about forearm balance?
• Is it true that the hip and the jaw are connected?
• Are there poses where length of arms, legs, torso come into play and have to adjust?
• How do you jump back into a plank safely?

Do you have a question?

• DM me on Instagram: @lara.heimann
• Email me at lara@old.lytyoga.com

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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?

Do you have a question?

• DM me on Instagram: @lara.heimann
• Email me at lara@old.lytyoga.com

Resources:

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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?

Do you have a question?

• DM me on Instagram: @lara.heimann
• Email me at lara@old.lytyoga.com

Resources:

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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?

Do you have a question?

• DM me on Instagram: @lara.heimann
• Email me at lara@old.lytyoga.com

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

Your questions:

• Trying the L shape for handstand drill and every time my back arched. What to do?
• How to not hunch or tighten while sleeping? I go to bed okay but wake up tight. I’m a fetal sleeper.
• Best parenting advice? I need all the help I can get.
• Do you have any advice for a bedtime routine? Any stretches you would recommend?

Do you have a question?

• DM me on Instagram: @lara.heimann
• DM Kristin on Instagram: @kbwilliams99
• Email me at lara@old.lytyoga.com
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Welcome to Wednesday Q&A, where you ask questions and Kristin Williams and I answer them!

Your questions:

• A few weeks ago, you spoke of lower ribs as it relates to the scapula. Can you elaborate?
• The difference between tightness in the QL, lats, and obliques?
• What are the best 3-5 stretches to do first thing in the morning?
• What’s the turn your elbows forward cue in down dog?
• Aside from movement, how do you do self-care? How do you keep your cup full?

Do you have a question?

• DM me on Instagram: @lara.heimann
• Email me at lara@old.lytyoga.com