09/08/2025
Coming out of my yoga teaching semi-retirement to share something near and dear to my heart. As a late-diagnosed person with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, I've had to learn so much about how to best accommodate my body and my 'spicy' joints. I'm now understanding why I was voted "most likely to be in the trainer's office" 4 years in a row, for both the sports I played in high school (shoutout to Katie for keeping me put together). Why I constantly sprained my ankles, why I had tendonitis in my shoulders and knees, why my back would lock up in my 20s, or I'd end up with some random injury in any activity I would do repetitively (why does my thumb randomly hurt when I lift weights!?!?).
Yoga was one of those places that I could "stretch" deeply, not realizing my body didn't need more flexibility, but rather, more stability (even if things felt 'tight').
The style of yoga I teach intuitively supports my hypermobility, but now I better understand why, and I want to share that with you. I also want to create a space to normalize so many things about what hypermobility is, and give access to resources and community to help folks get the care they need. All bodies can be hypermobile, it's about the connective tissue- not just the shapes you can make.
Typical PT, exercises, etc. don't always work for this spicy joint club, and we get to talk about why.
If you're curious about this, think this might be you, or are a teacher wanting to better understand how to support your students, come join me at Breathing Room Alameda Saturday, Sept 20th.
In person or online, sliding scale.
https://www.breathingroomalameda.com/workshops-events
