Are Your Kneecaps Stuck up?
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Estimated reading time: 2 minutes, 6 seconds
If your kneecaps are stuck up you are putting yourself at risk of knee and hip problems and possible knee and hip replacement surgery. According to the CDC in 2009 the total knee replacements in the US...
Vaginal Steams
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Estimated reading time: 7 minutes, 36 seconds
Herbal vaginal steams, or bajos, as they are known in Spanish, or chai-yok in Korean have been are used for centuries to treat many conditions including painful or irregular periods, endometriosis,...
Sitting Is The New Smoking
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Estimated reading time: 5 minutes, 37 seconds
I recently took Katy Bowman’s How Much do I Sit? quiz. In case you haven’t heard sitting in chairs is bad for you, bad for your back, digestive organs, heart, uterus and life expectancy. We...
Upper Body Strength, Pole Dancing an...
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Estimated reading time: 3 minutes, 12 seconds
Katy Bowman declared this year to be the year of the upper body, so it got me thinking about my upper body strength (or lack of it). I have super strong hands from doing massage for 15 years (I challenge...
Squatty Potty Review and Giveaway!
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Estimated reading time: 2 minutes, 24 seconds
This is why I love the Squatty Potty: It’s fun to say Squatty Potty. The platform that you put your feet on has a slight angle tilting away from you, allowing for tight calf muscles, so if you have been...
Help for Uterine Prolapse
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Estimated reading time: 6 minutes, 32 seconds
Uterine prolapse is when the womb (uterus) slides from its normal position into the vaginal area. There are four stages of uterine prolapse. First degree uterine prolapse is when the cervix drops into the...
Squatty Potty
Word count: 489
Estimated reading time: 2 minutes, 26 seconds
As a Restorative Exercise Specialist™ my grand daddy of all goals is to get myself into a proper squat. Not the kind of squat that causes you to pee on your shoes in the woods, but a squat with an untucked...
Digestive Health Part 2- Alignment a...
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Estimated reading time: 2 minutes, 40 seconds
In the Digestive Health- Part 1 post, I talked about digestion and the brain and our connection to food. In this post I’m going to talk about how physical alignment affects digestion. I’m a...
I'm a Restorative Exercise™ Specialist, and certified practitioner and educator of Maya and Chinese abdominal therapy. I combine ancient healing techniques with the science of biomechanics. -Barbara Loomis (A.K.A. the Alignment Monkey), owner of Nurturance, LLC (license #6509)
