by Dr Monica Gauci | Jul 14, 2021 | Anatomy/Rehabilitation, Audio/Video
This exercise is great if you have just injured a disc or have an old disc injury that has not healed. The deep stabilising spinal muscles (especially multifidi) are traumatised with any low back injury. They even begin to waste within 24-hours! To prevent this or to...
by Dr Monica Gauci | Jun 17, 2021 | Anatomy/Rehabilitation, Audio/Video
This exercise not only strengthens the muscles that are on the back of our body (the posterior chain of the hamstrings, gluteals and paraspinals), but especially activates and strengthens the deep stabilising muscles along our spine. These muscles are responsible for...
by Dr Monica Gauci | Mar 29, 2021 | Anatomy/Rehabilitation, Asana, Audio/Video
Many yogis think it is never good to round their low back in yoga. Wrong. We need to be able to round our low back in many yoga postures. This video shows you how to tell if your abdominals are not strong enough or if your low back muscles are too tight to enable you...
by Dr Monica Gauci | Feb 24, 2021 | Anatomy/Rehabilitation, Audio/Video
My favourite whole-body strengthening exercise! This exercise strongly works latissimus dorsi and the psoas muscles as well as other muscles of our expanded core. As these two muscles exclusively connect our arms and legs to our spine, this movement pattern...
by Dr Monica Gauci | Mar 14, 2020 | Anatomy/Rehabilitation, Asana, Teaching
Functional is the buzz word in the exercise, movement and physical rehabilitation scenes. Movements or exercises are considered ‘functional’ if they support the movement patterns that are necessary for us to function in our daily lives. There are seven primal,...
by Dr Monica Gauci | Feb 22, 2020 | Anatomy/Rehabilitation, Asana, Ashtanga Yoga
I thought this blog would be a complimentary follow-up to Gregor’s last blog post where he elaborates on some of the great benefits of the Ashtanga Yoga vinyasa practice (practicing at the pace of one’s own breath, being independent of a class or teacher, etc)....