Yoga Anatomy

Sometimes called “yoga butt,” Proximal Hamstring Tendonitis can hinder your life and practice. Here’s how to prevent it from happening to you and your students.

Ever notice how you tend to walk, lean, hunch, or otherwise propel yourself forward all the time? Your body needs more than that to remain flexible and pain-free. Here's how.

An exploration of the intention behind an anatomically incorrect instruction.

Most yoga practitioners can't seem to get enough of these poses. Yet a teacher with more than two decades of experience explores whether less is more.

The case for keeping it simple.

Because there's more to life than hip openers.

How to take care of one of the body's most critical joints, so you can remain pain-free on and off the mat.

How you engage your feet during asana practice is important for the health of your tootsies—and for establishing more balanced postures.

We trust our breath to keep us alive, to help us through panic or pain, and support our meditation and yoga practices. But that’s not all it can do. Here's how your body moves with your breath.

The way you move your shoulder joint is important for avoiding injury. Physical therapist and certified yoga therapist Rachel Krentzman breaks down how this commonly used cue can be dangerous—and tells you what to do instead.

Being upside down can shift how we view the world—literally and figuratively.

Many yoga instructors tell students to “anchor the sitting bones” in seated twists. But the key to healthy twisting is moving your pelvis.

Got back pain? Tight hip flexors could be to blame. Open them up with these four yoga poses that counterbalance the prolonged hip flexion of sitting for hours.

Use these poses to access this deep muscle, which is key for freedom and ease in the hips.

The word “flexibility” is often associated with yoga. But what does it mean to be flexible? In this four-week online course, Anatomy Trains founder Tom Myers walks you through the latest science on stretching.

Sit-ups are one of the least effective ways to strengthen the core.

Hamstring tears and strains are common among yoga practitioners, and overstretching can make it worse. Here's how to alter your practice to ensure a speedy recovery.

Many yoga teachers and students find Down Dog uncomfortable because they hold a fundamentally flawed understanding of how the shoulder joint moves.

While yoga isn’t about becoming more flexible, having a good understanding of what flexibility is, and why it’s important, can take your practice to the next level.