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Yoga After 40 | #yogaafter40 #womenover40 #healthyaging If your yoga practice feels different after 40, you’re not alone. Please visit my website to get more information: https://www.alisonstarr.com/  Your body changes, and your practice should change with it. In this episode, Allison Star shares 5 important shifts to make so you can stay strong, pain-free, and connected for decades to come....

Transform Your Health with Functional Breathing Techniques #breathingexercises #posturecorrection #stressrelief Struggling with stress, chronic pain, or poor posture? You’re not alone. Many of us are breathing in a way that affects our health negatively. Please visit my website to get more information: https://www.alisonstarr.com/  In this video, you'll discover the power of functional breath...

Power of Your Breath | #breathingtechniques #stressreliefbreathing #functionalbreathing In today's video, we answer 10 common breathing questions that will help you breathe better for healing, health, and stress relief. Please visit my website to get more information: https://www.alisonstarr.com/  Alison Star, a movement educator with over 20 years of experience, explores the connection betwe...

Your breathing is the invisible engine of your strength. In this episode, discover how breathing creates core stability through intra-abdominal pressure, why you might be stuck in rib-flare, and how evolving your alignment cues transforms movement. Want to practice breathing with me?  Join the Fall in Love with Your Breathing Challenge—10 days, 20 minutes a day, October 6–17. 100% free, live...

3 Breathing Myths Holding You Back | #breathing #yogastrong #functionalyoga Think breathing is automatic and doesn’t matter? Think again. Please visit my website to get more information: https://www.alisonstarr.com/ In this video, we bust 3 common myths that limit your breathing and potential. From believing you’re already doing it right, to thinking it’s only for relaxation, these misconceptions...

The tutorial is part of the FREE 10-Day Fall in Love with Your Breathing Challenge: https://www.alisonstarr.com/breathing-challenge-2025 Erika will teach live, guided breathing breathing practices on TUESDAYS. Subscribe for more moving and breathing for healing. Dive deeper with the following: → Nervous System Navigator: https://20minutemiracles.passion.io/app/products/221603 → Create Calm: Vagus...

Join the FREE 10-Day Fall in Love with Your Breathing Challenge: What if your breathing was the most powerful tool you’ve never been taught to use? In this episode, Alison reveals how breathing—when practiced intentionally—can dial in your nervous system, build emotional resilience, and bring you back into your window of tolerance. You’ll learn: How inhales activate your sympathetic system via the...

For easy-breezy access to practices, get the 20 Minute Miracles App: https://www.20minutemiracles.com What if your posture predicted your nervous system state? What if you could use your structure as a sign and signal? What if your body gave you clues to widen your window of tolerance? In this episode, we look at fascia as a response system. Subscribe for more moving and breathing for healing. Was...

For easy-breezy access to practices, get the 20 Minute Miracles App: https://www.20minutemiracles.com What if strength wasn’t about lifting more or heavier—but moving with connection and building resilience? In this episode, we explore fascia as the secret to resilient, adaptive strength. Learn how biotensegrity can help you feel stronger, more connected, and ready for anything. Subscribe for more...

For easy-breezy access to practices, get the 20 Minute Miracles App: https://www.20minutemiracles.com Your body isn’t just bones and muscles—it’s an interconnected web of fascia that organizes movement, posture, and energy. These connections are called myofascial meridians (or “anatomy trains”), and understanding them can revolutionize how you practice yoga, strength train, or simply move through...

For easy-breezy access to practices, get the 20 Minute Miracles App: https://www.20minutemiracles.com Fascia is far more than the “wrapping” around your muscles—it’s an intelligent, dynamic network that connects, communicates, and shapes your moving, breathing, and being. In this episode, we challenge outdated myths and explore the new science and deep wisdom of fascia: What is fascia—and what is...

For easy-breezy access to practices, get the 20 Minute Miracles App: https://onelink.to/20minutemiracles Your body keeps the score—literally. Fascia, the living connective tissue web that wraps every muscle and organ, holds emotional and physical stress in ways science is only beginning to understand.  In this episode, Alison explores  “Issues in Your Tissues” —how chronic stress, trauma, an...

Get more resources on the 20 Minute Miracles App: https://onelink.to/20minutemiracles . If you're feeling overwhelmed, you're not wrong and you're not failing. But if you ignore this warning from your body, you're on the fast track to burnout. In this deeply personal and science-backed episode, Alison Starr unpacks overwhelm as a red flag, not a flaw. Drawing from somatic psychology, nervous syste...

Put practices in your back pocket: https://onelink.to/20minutemiracles What if healing isn’t in your head—but in your body? In this episode of Healing Through the Body, Alison Starr shares her personal story of depression—and how yoga was her last ditch effort and saving grace. Blending science and story, she explores how bottom-up healing (like moving and breathing) can work when top-down strateg...

Is your body cranky, clunky, or just off? In this empowering episode, Alison Starr unpacks three science-backed strategies to transform pain, imbalance, and discomfort into strength, clarity, and stability. From lower back tension to knee instability and neck pain, you’ll learn how to decode your body’s messages and respond with practices that rewrite your movement patterns, restore alignment, and...

Movement isn’t just exercise. It’s how you rewire your brain, calibrate your nervous system, and transform your sense of self. In this week’s episode, Antifragile in Action: Movement Is the Method, Alison shared the science of practices like yoga, strength training, and cardio and how to use them to create the internal conditions for true resilience. Through the lens of neuroscience, ancient yogic...

Ever tried to change and everything in your system screamed “No!"? It's not just you and it doesn't mean that you're off-course or not-meant-for-that. In fact, this sense of "wrong" might mean the change is really right. In this video, Alison Starr unpacks the neurobiology of change—why your brain, body, and nervous system resist transformation and what to do about it. Drawing from the predictive...

What if physical challenges were portals to healing? In this episode, Alison Starr invites you to see movement as a powerful path to deep, lasting transformation. Drawing from anti-fragility, nervous system science, and the yoga tradition, discover how you can rewire early-childhood imprints, expand your window of tolerance, and invite Spirit into the driver's seat. You’ll learn: -How to discern t...

Why do we give up just when things are about to get good? You don’t lack motivation—you lack a map for how growth actually works. In Part 2 of Becoming Anti-Fragile, we explore the psychology of sticking with practices like meditation, journaling, or cold exposure. Discover why people fall off, how to build real willpower, and how to move through the “Valley of Despair” using science-backed tools...

What if stress wasn’t something to avoid—but something that could strengthen you? In this video, Alison Starr explores the concept of antifragility—coined by risk analyst Nassim Nicholas Taleb—and how it applies to your body, brain, and being. You’ll learn why resilience isn’t enough and how the right dose of challenge, movement, and mindset can actually help you evolve. Drawing from yoga traditio...

Learn about your nervous system Ready for strength-building that’s smart, sustainable and still feels like yoga? 🎥 Grab the free strength series: https://alisonstarr.kit.com/9d22b218a4 Looking to reclaim your strength and confidence? Let's talk.  📅 Schedule a Clarity Call: https://calendly.com/makepracticemiraculous/clarity Want yoga-inspired, science-backed practices you that fit into real...

Ready for strength-building that’s smart, sustainable and still feels like yoga? 🎥 Grab the free strength series: https://alisonstarr.kit.com/9d22b218a4 Looking to reclaim your strength and confidence? Let's talk.  📅 Schedule a Clarity Call: https://calendly.com/makepracticemiraculous/clarity Want yoga-inspired, science-backed practices you that fit into real life? 📲 Get the 20 Minute Mira...

Ready for strength-building that’s smart, sustainable and still feels like yoga? 🎥 Grab the free strength series: https://alisonstarr.kit.com/9d22b218a4 Looking to reclaim your strength and confidence? Let's talk.  📅 Schedule a Clarity Call: https://calendly.com/makepracticemiraculous/clarity Want yoga-inspired, science-backed practices you that fit into real life? 📲 Get the 20 Minute Mira...

Ready for strength-building that’s smart, sustainable and still feels like yoga? 🎥 Grab the free strength series: https://alisonstarr.kit.com/9d22b218a4 Looking to reclaim your strength and confidence? Let's talk.  📅 Schedule a Clarity Call: https://calendly.com/makepracticemiraculous/clarity Want yoga-inspired, science-backed practices you that fit into real life? 📲 Get the 20 Minute Mira...

Ready for strength-building that’s smart, sustainable and still feels like yoga? 🎥 Grab the free strength series: https://alisonstarr.kit.com/9d22b218a4 Looking to reclaim your strength and confidence? Let's talk.  📅 Schedule a Clarity Call: https://calendly.com/makepracticemiraculous/clarity Want yoga-inspired, science-backed practices you that fit into real life? 📲 Get the 20 Minute Mira...