We are all about hands-on learning. We hope that’s obvious. For too long, our public education system relegated “technical” education to a second-tier status. The shop. The auto repair kids. “Home Economics” came-and went. Schools promoted “sitting and getting.” The old idea was a “sage on the stage” (a teacher) who talked while students sat, passively, learning. Or not learning. Recently, that’s begun to change. The trend is toward active learning, active student participat

Yoga teacher Jo Phee is based in Singapore, where she was born and bred. Twenty years ago, when she was working as a conference organizer, she happened to peek in the room next to the gym where she was working out. She was twenty-three years old at the time. Her life was about to change. A yoga class was underway. She was not familiar with yoga. She didn’t know what it was. Phee had no idea that completing an hour of yoga poses would require so much stamina, strength, and fle

We are glad to see fascia having its moment. Long overlooked, long understudied—it’s clear that research into fascia is gathering momentum. And why not? Fascia is “the band or sheet of connective tissue, primarily collagen, beneath the skin that attaches, stabilizes, encloses and separates muscles and other internal organs.” (Wikipedia). Note: we are not talking about the fascia and soffits on the front of your house. Fascia is as critical as everything else in the function o

As we ponder the wonders of human anatomy, it’s always good to stop and remind ourselves that how we are shaped and assembled is entirely the result of one strange force. Gravity. Who knows this better than the experts in weightlessness—NASA? “Gravity is not just a force, it's also a signal—a signal that tells the body how to act. For one thing, it tells muscles and bones how strong they must be. In zero-G, muscles atrophy quickly, because the body perceives it does not need

Bev Boyer was 16 years old and attending Dixon High School in northern Illinois when a doctor finally pinpointed why she was frequently in pain. Since she was ten years old, Bev had felt pain in her back but she pushed through, playing third base in softball and competing with the swim team, too. When she slowed with sports, however, the pain got worse. After six years of complaints, a doctor finally said Bev had scoliosis, the technical name for curvature of the spine. The d

Did you know the word yoga is a noun? It’s a Sanskrit noun that translates to the English for “yoke.” It’s derived from the root word yui which means to attach, join, harness … and yoke. (Yes, we know the meaning of yoga can also be used as a verb, along the lines of to concentrate. As a word, ‘yoga’ has many dimensions.) At its essence, however, yoga is body and mind and the connection—the yoke—between the two. So there’s a natural affinity between yoga and the Anatomy in Cl