by Andrea Trank | Mar 27, 2022
What is a Mudra and Why You Should Care? Has your yoga teacher ever asked you to put your thumb tip against your index finger and rest that on the lap either facing up or down? He or she may have even told you that you were practicing Gyana or Chin Mudra, also known...
by Andrea Trank | Jan 9, 2022
My Yoga Does Not Look Like This! I remember when I was first trained as a yoga teacher in 2014 how surprised I was to learn that Yoga was originally developed for teenage boys training to be monks. Over time I really came to understand how important that fact is for...
by Andrea Trank | Apr 18, 2021
Can You Reverse Aging Through Somatic Movement? How often do we blame our physical ailments and conditions on just getting older? What if I told you that does not need to be the case? If you think about it, as we age, we get wiser from all the mistakes we made in...
by Andrea Trank | Mar 7, 2021
Gentle Somatic Yoga is Tailor-Made for People with Chronic Pain Did you know that the root cause of most chronic muscle pain is sensory-motor amnesia (SMA)? In simple terms, years after you have recovered from a trauma to the body or emotional trauma, you can still...
by Andrea Trank | Feb 28, 2021
We Can Learn A lot about Movement from Babies! I watch my granddaughter all the time! When I first got into yoga, it was to help with my emotions, most particularly anxiety. However, over the years, I realized that the yoga practices were helping me stay fit and...
by Andrea Trank | Jan 31, 2021
What does it mean to be present? Being present seems like such a simple concept and yet it eludes us most of the time. We are in the kitchen cooking a meal thinking about our friend who is struggling across the globe or we are outside exercising on a bike, thinking...
