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8 Poses to Relieve Period Cramps
Don’t let period cramps cramp your style. Flow with ease through these moves.
7 Best Stretches for Painful Sex on Top
We list out our 7 favorite stretches to relieve pain on top during sex.
My Weekly Workouts
Learn all about our Founder Dr. Ellers’ weekly workout routine and why she chooses specific exercise to synch with her menstrual cycle.
How to Get the MOST Out of Your Physical Therapy Visit
Working with a physical therapist - or any kind of therapist for that matter - can be optimized and time well-spent on getting you closer to your goals and better life experience. We like to call it improving your quality of life! Read our blog to learn how to make the most of it.
Gregg’s Truth
Alright friends, this is a rare submission to the Being Better blog: a truth presented from a male’s perspective. And there’s none other to present this view than my dad, Gregg Ellers. A quick look into his background: he grew up in Billings, Montana, went to school for engineering, worked, and is finally retired. Through that journey, he’s married and brought two humans into this world- me, and then my brother. He’s had his own trials and tribulations and it was just recently that I’ve even made a realization: he could benefit from sharing his truth, and everyone else who doesn’t realize that men also need connection to their pelvic health could benefit too. So here it is, the first “He is Being Better” for you to read, enjoy, and share.
Top 4 Postpartum Yoga Postures
So you went through nine-ish months of pregnancy, labor and birth of your baby, who is now taking up most of your bandwidth. When is it time for you to focus on you again and get back to your yoga practice? (Or any kind of movement for that matter?)
To keep things as simple as possible again, I recommend the four following yoga postures as a part of the postpartum healing process. The intention behind postpartum yoga is NOT the same as prenatal. While prenatal yoga is meant to help create space in your pelvis and belly for your baby, postpartum yoga is meant to help bind your body into strong alignment again.
Top 4 Prenatal Yoga Postures
I hope that everyone knows by now that breathwork and movement are great during the prenatal season of a person’s life. It can get overwhelming to figure out what to do, so I wanted to keep things as simple as possible for all you parents-to-be out there with my four favorites.
First things first, YOU are in charge of your body, and paying attention to how you feel is the essence of yoga as you breathe and move from moment to moment. Your practice can change from day to day, trimester to trimester. Maybe these postures need modifications as a pregnant person progresses, so remember to pay attention to what it is you’re actually feeling.
Without further ado, here are my faves (in no particular order than by trimesters)!
Top 4 Ways to Recover Like a Pro
Our energies, bodies, and world run on familiar cycles. The seasons of the year, days turning into nights, and of course, the menstrual cycle run on these patterns of ups and downs, high energy and low energy. They help us survive and maintain balance. Our workouts should follow this same pattern if we want to be active for life.
Apps for Menstrual Cycle Tracking and Syncing
For many women nowadays, tracking their menstrual cycle is a must. Maybe for the majority it’s to prevent or plan for pregnancy using the Fertility Awareness Method (FAM). For a small, but hopefully growing, portion of women, tracking their menstrual cycle is more about cycle syncing, a method that helps optimize a woman’s life in all areas based on where she is at in her cycle.
How to Foam Roll for Maximum Benefits
I break down this strategy for foam rolling, which you can apply to any muscle group. Bonus for this blog: you get to watch me lead you through how to do it in the videos below! Feel free to skip down to the videos ASAP for a lower body and upper body roll out.
How to Incorporate Bolsters in Supportive Yoga Postures
Bolsters have never been a huge part of my personal practice until this last year. I’m definitely not consistent with a yin practice yet, but I plan on using my Manduka Enlight bolsters more frequently!
So for your viewing pleasure and to learn more about how to support your practice yin/restorative style, here are a few ways I love to incorporate a bolster.
How to Best Use Your Yoga Blocks
Do you feel like using props in your yoga practice is a sign of weakness? Of inability?
I invite you to take a different perspective. Even the most “advanced” practitioner would find value in using props, especially if it means getting more sensation and a deeper connection to your body and breath.