In my Balance & Walking class last week, we discovered several people weren’t able to easily complete a self-challenging stand-from-sitting exercise because of limited ankle joint flexion. Whether from high heels, aging, or injury, ankles around the room were reducing their owners’ grace, strength, standing, and balance skills. Ankles were why students needed their hands and leaned forward to stand up out of chairs. When We Lose Balance it’s imperative that we have the abilit

We still lose ground to aging. You probably DO stretch - I often hear, “not as much as I should” but it’s not your fault. At any age, you are just not as flexible as you used to be. Sometimes stretching hurts. Sometimes it just feels ineffective. It can feel like you are fighting your own body just to move. It really isn’t your fault. Posture & Flexibility CAN be restored. There are very real, physiological reasons for this. Over time, trigger points set in that need to be re

One of the quickest ways we unconsciously identify age in anyone in front of us isn’t from their face or hair—it’s from their apparent hip flexibility. Sometimes younger people have an injury or tight “hip flexors,” which are easily fixed with the right stretches. But over time, our hips can rotate outward and resist extension. Shoulders tighten, as do all the other joints. We often feel our calves cramp at night or our ankles complain as we get out of bed, even as early as

It's not your fault, why you can't effectively REMEMBER to keep "better" posture. Posture, like breathing is automatic. I mean, you can...