In this video, I offer you a way to explore your lateral hips while lying down so that you can really key in on the area you want to be working.

Even in the midst of all these difficulties, I can feel myself walking out of a dark time and into a lighter time. I've undergone immense internal change.

I will never be or do or say things that are pleasing to everyone. Or if I am, it's probably because I'm not being or doing or saying much at all, an experience that is its own kind of death.

Women are coming away from birth confused and horrified by what has happened to them. We tell them it was their provider. We tell them it was their lack of education. We tell them it was their trauma. This is not the whole truth.

When I started a more aggressive treatment for my digestive issues, my doctor handed me a document that outlined the two month approach she was recommending. The first order of treatment was this: Stress Reduction.

By now, you may have gathered that so very many of our daily habits have us in hip flexion, where the thigh is coming forward in front of the pelvis. In this video, I show the many ways I modify the iliacus release, depending on what I or my clients need.

Being able to stand with a vertical leg and a kneecap that is relaxed down is not only an important movement to be able to execute, but is essential everyday alignment. In this video, I talk a little about the ability to wiggle the kneecaps and help you find your way there.

If you have an obscene amount of laundry to fold and want to get in close to an hour's workout for the backs of your legs, this will fit the bill.

A tale of miscarriage and personal transformation.

Why stay active when all your food is harvested for you and you can buy it with the work you do while sitting all day? Why change your life to meet your body's movement requirements when you've been trained to be still since infancy? Why give yourself permission to let the belly release when your entire culture is screaming at you to look thin? Why set aside so much of what you've learned when you've gotten by on its tenets?

It rained cats and dogs yesterday and, intent as I was on getting off pavement, I found myself having to navigate some seriously soppy patches of trail.  After a mere half mile with water through my socks, my toes were screaming in pain.

I used to see illness as a failure of the body, but in answering my son, I kept coming back to the fact that his (and my) sickness was the way our bodies were taking care of us.

Here's a little something to help you unwrap your shoulder, arm and chest tension, whether it's holiday induced or not.

I used to get terrible menstrual cramps. In college, I remember thinking that my neighbors who shared a wall must be sure that someone in my apartment was having loud sex. But no, the bed banging against the wall and the moans weren't pleasure-induced. It was just me, having gotten my period.

We live in a culture that pushes toxic body messages. But this idea of not stopping to listen? Not heeding what you hear? Never resting? This is perhaps the most toxic.

Let's say that if you want the most ideal health, you might be best served by undergoing a lengthy (read: years) conditioning program in the woods and then be released permanently into nature. But you're not going to do that. And neither am I. How about we work on a Plan B?

Your whole body-mind health and resilience is wildly intertwined with healthy psoas muscles. This simple practice is revolutionary and can be life-changing.

Ready to start fixing those feet? These six exercises will help get you there.