A Mount Sinai study using All of Us biobank data found that social, behavioral, and environmental factors predict risk for common diseases as well as or better than genetics alone. For four of six illnesses studied—including asthma, chronic kidney disease, high cholesterol, and coronary heart disease—context outweighed DNA, with even loneliness emerging as a meaningful…
Stronger by Science reviews the claim that light drinking is heart-healthy and finds it collapses under better methodology: a large Mendelian randomization analysis shows alcohol increases cardiovascular risk at all doses once lifestyle confounders are controlled. For lifters specifically, low doses don’t seem to hurt short-term strength or power, but higher doses (~1g/kg) suppress strength…
Two very different books argue the same thing: if you don’t know where you are, you don’t know who you are.
This is Ashtanga Yoga Tech Support. Real questions from the yoga community, answered. The Question I've been thinking about using compression work with my legs parallel so I can find the concave quality in my stomach while letting my hips move naturally. Does that make sense as a way to work? — from a MJH note Our Response Yes. That’s exactly the direction.Compression work with parallel legs gives you a container. You get to feel what your abdomen does when your hips aren’t externally rotated, when there’s no flinch pattern steering you away from the midline.
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The polite version says abundance mindset. The honest version is that the math doesn’t work for most people teaching yoga. Not because they lack dedication. Not because they’re doing it wrong. Because…
Big toe joint conditioning can be a missing link in Ashtanga yoga, especially when you’re jumping back and putting weight onto a joint that isn’t prepared. In this Shala Daily, we look at why so many practitioners get screened at the big toe joint and what it means for injury risk.
The video explores a practical question: what is the risk-to-reward of big jump-outs, and is it worth it for you? We talk about how the hallux joint can be conditioned, and how that may help you approach hard landings and transitions with more awareness.
Alongside the physical work, the study guide theme is surrender. What can we accept? How do we change perspective and let go when stressors are present, even if others can’t see them? That same acceptance shows up in practice when a flinch or reset appears, even without pain, and you have to acknowledge what’s happening before you can smooth it out.
If you want to learn skills like jump-outs, the message is clear: want what you want, then take calculated risks and do the conditioning work for toes, wrists, and ankles.
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AI isn’t the threat — extraction is, and we’ve already run this playbook before. ✍️ Michael Joel Hall 📚 Read more: https://michaeljoelhall.com/equity-not-extraction/ 🔗 michaeljoelhall.com · theyoga.club · ashtanga.tech #michaeljoelhall #yoga #ashtanga #writing #yogateacher
AI isn’t the threat — extraction is, and we’ve already run this playbook before.
Most yoga arguments aren’t about the practice. They’re about who gets to say what the practice is.That’s the subtext under almost every debate about body diversity in Ashtanga. One side says the…
This is a video about How Ashtanga Yoga Impacts Our Time and Lifestyle– and how they impact our practice.