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Yoga Helps Prevent Shoulder Injuries on NBC4
ellen on 11:32 am March 5th, 2013 / 3 Comments »
Boundless student Mamta Kaushal joins Kim and Keith to show you how simple yoga moves can help strengthen your shoulders and prevent injuries. These moves can be done at home or on the go, and just a few minutes each day can increase strength, flexibility, and improve posture.
View more videos at: http://nbcwashington.com.
How Yoga Balls can Strengthen the Core and Improve Posture on NBC4!
ellen on 10:49 am February 26th, 2013 / 2 Comments »
Kim is joined by Boundless teacher Elissa Margolin to talk with Keith about the benefits of using a yoga ball to improve core strength and posture! Learn how using a yoga ball at home during your daily tasks can help make you look and feel amazing! To rock that core even more, join Elissa at one of her weekly Flow classes at Boundless!
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Tips for Office Back Health and healthy back class
kim on 12:56 pm February 24th, 2013 / Be the first to comment! »
Basic Rules for a Healthy Back in the Office
Overall
- Slumping when sitting = dangerous
- Sitting with a long, supported spine = normal
The 1-2-3 Approach
- Lift the floor
- Support the sacrum, not the low back. This straightens out the spine by forcing the abs to work when you are sitting
- Do not underestimate the value of movement of any kind, at any moment (shoulder rolls, neck rolls, getting up and stretching your arms overhead, walking for 5 minutes)
Basic Back Health Yoga Class
- Child’s pose (often needs to be modified)
- Cat/cow
- Down Dog or Half forward fold with hands on chair, couch, table
- Advanced: Full Standing forward fold
- “Low” lunge, i.e., back knee down; pelvis facing forward with legs front/back
- Side angle pose with elbow on knee (modified); Pelvis “open” or legs wide with pelvis in center
- Advanced: Wide legged standing forward fold
- Mountain Pose. Inhale to Mountain Pose with hands reaching overhead
- Warrior 2 Pose
- Triangle Pose
- Side angle pose with block
- Tree Pose
- Head-to-knee-pose (modified)
- Savasana
- Abdominal work, as taught by Kim in Healthy Back Series
- Supported Bridge Pose (using block) or Advanced: Bridge Pose
- Advanced: Plow Pose
- Savasana
Postnatal Yoga Benefits on NBC4!
ellen on 10:21 am February 19th, 2013 / Be the first to comment! »
Boundless student and new mom Erin Duncan joins Kim on NBC4 to discuss how yoga can help mothers de-stress and improve their core strength! New mothers and mothers-to-be, make sure to check out Boundless’s Mom and Baby Yoga and Prenatal Yoga classes!
View more videos at: http://nbcwashington.com.
Yoga for PTSD on NBC4
ellen on 10:11 am February 12th, 2013 / Be the first to comment! »
Kim teams up with Sarah Plummer, a Marine Corp Captain and creator of Just Roll With it Boot Camp, to talk with Keith about how yoga can help veterans cope with stress and alleviate PTSD.
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Athletes and Yoga on NBC 4
ellen on 10:28 am February 7th, 2013 / Be the first to comment! »
New Yoga for Athletes teacher Chris Duling joined Kim and Keith on NBC 4′s Midday show to showcase some great poses for athletes who use yoga to increase performance and decrease stress. Watch to learn Kim’s expert opinion and more about why yoga is so great for athletes.
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Stay flexible, live better! On NBC4 today.
kim on 7:14 pm January 28th, 2013 / 12 Comments »
Today, Tuesday morning yoga teacher Nandini and Kim spent a few minutes with NBC4′s Keith Russell talking about yoga, flexibility, and the aging process. Check out Nandini’s drop-back to wheel pose!
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NBC on Yoga and Injuries
kim on 10:37 pm January 9th, 2013 / Be the first to comment! »
I wrote last week here about another recent New York Times piece on yoga and injuries, and Keith Russell at NBC4 wanted to talk more about it. We were a little short on time for this segment but RYT trainee Jennie Kim and I managed to show the top ways that things go wrong in two yoga poses.
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Guys, injuries, and yoga
kim on 3:23 pm January 3rd, 2013 / Be the first to comment! »
Thank goodness for William Broad. He’s a concerned yoga enthusiast who is also a science reporter for the New York Times. In addition to writing such detailed reports as this one concerning injuries men get doing yoga, he published a provocative and informative book, Yoga: Risks and Rewards, on the whole subject of yoga and injuries last year.
His article “Wounded Warrior,” referring to this, this, or this pose, says men are more likely to suffer injuries in yoga class than women are. He is also moved, as we all should be, by the letters he’s received from injured yoga dudes.
Boundless Yoga has been teaching safe, relaxing, and challenging yoga for 13 years. If your teacher, like all the senior and junior teachers at Boundless, knows how to keep you safe by offering deep, intelligent, and detailed instruction on how to move your body, you will find a wide variety of ways to enjoy, grow, and feel totally successful doing yoga.
Men, yes, are often more inclined to treat the class as a challenge versus a “refuge,” and that’s why teaching poses from a basic safety and alignment-principled place pushes them mentally and emotionally, as well as physically. Our yoga for athletes and all our alignment-principled classes teach this way every week!
If you’re a man and taught well, you will stretch your muscles and bend at your joints with incredible benefit to your sense of personal power, well being, and happiness in the world.
Thanks again, William! We’re always glad to see you concerned and publishing. 
Hello Boundless
kim on 11:46 am December 31st, 2012 / Be the first to comment! »
Hi, my name is Erin McCarley. The week after Thanksgiving I became the new General Manger here at Boundless. It has been a busy and wonderful two months; meeting students & teachers, listening to the great ideas and feedback many of you have taken the time to provide, cozying up the studio space, finding my (loose) bearings with MindBodyOnline, the list goes on…
I come to Boundless after spending nearly 10 years in the non-profit finance/administration field. I am very excited to be working in the context of a small, local, woman-owned business. I am a California native, musician, silkscreen visual artist, poor but persistent gardener, and mother of two. You may have seen some of the changes Kim & I have been making to the studio, and wondering what’s next. Things on my mind for 2013 include everything on the spectrum that is the student experience at Boundless, supporting teachers, marketing, communications, social media, and making the studio space an inviting and warm place to deepen a yoga practice and support community. I see my role as being a catch-all for feedback, ideas, requests, thoughts, dreams, visions, complaints, and “even better ifs…” These things get stored, processed, and hopefully come out the other side a cohesive improvement to the way we all experience our time here no matter if it’s your first yoga class ever, or your 25th year of practice.
