Yogi Anatomy

🧘 Happy International Yoga Day! 🌍

5,000+ years of wisdom. A growing body of science. And a whole lot still to learn.

At YogiAnatomy, we celebrate June 21st by honoring what the research actually shows:
✅ Chronic pain → meaningful evidence
✅ Anxiety & wellbeing → consistent findings across meta-analyses
✅ Sleep quality → an emerging strength of the literature (stay tuned 👀)
✅ Blood pressure → modest but real effects

And when there’s evidence is still developing? We tell it like it is because that’s what integrity looks like.

Ancient practice. Modern science. No over claiming.

We’re spending this Yoga Day developing our December sleep science retreat for rehab professionals, then…yoga.

Tap the link in bio to read our full International Yoga Day post.

😴 You thought skipping sleep just made you tired. But what if it’s also quietly eroding your clinical judgment?

The latest post in our Sleep Science Series gets real about what sleep deprivation does to the brain skills you rely on most as a healthcare provider:

🧠 Sustained attention
🔄 Cognitive flexibility
⚖️ Moral reasoning & ethical decision-making
📋 Working memory for complex clinical cases

And here’s the uncomfortable part: the more sleep-deprived you are, the less accurately you perceive your own impairment. The instrument you’d use to notice the problem is the same one that’s compromised.

We also dig into:
→ Strategic napping: useful or overhyped?
→ Caffeine timing (that 3 pm coffee may still be active at midnight 👀)
→ Weekend catch-up sleep: better than nothing, but not what you think
→ Where yoga actually fits into the picture

This series is building toward our December 2026 workshop: Better Sleep, Better Outcomes.

🔗 Full post at the link in bio.

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🧠 Quick quiz: Which of these has happened to you after a short night?

☐ Snapped at a colleague, then immediately wondered where that came from
☐ Felt anxious or on edge without a clear reason
☐ Had less patience for a patient’s slow progress than you normally would
☐ Made a reactive call you’d have handled differently well-rested

That’s not a personality problem. That’s your amygdala running without its regulator.

Sleep deprivation creates a measurable “prefrontal-amygdala disconnect.” Your brain’s threat detector gets louder while the part that keeps it in check goes quiet.

Our latest blog breaks it all down → The glymphatic system (your brain’s cleaning crew that only runs while you sleep 🧹) → Why you can stop feeling tired while still performing at a deficit → The midlife sleep-dementia link researchers are tracking

Part 3 in our Sleep Science Series, is building toward our December 2026 workshop: “Better Sleep, Better Outcomes,” because sleep is a performance issue.

🔗 Full post at the link in bio.

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📊 65–88% of people with chronic musculoskeletal pain have clinically meaningful sleep disturbances.

That’s not incidental. Sleep and pain are neurobiologically intertwined. Treat one without the other, and you’re leaving outcomes on the table.

Our latest blog breaks down the mechanisms and the evidence for yoga as a dual sleep-and-pain intervention. Worth a read if you work with either population, which, let’s be honest, is every population.

Link in bio 🔗

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We are so proud of our recent yoga teacher graduates. They each came to YogiAnatomy with different goals and backgrounds, and they all emerged as knowledgeable yogis and talented teachers. They may be bad asses, but as people and teachers, they are full of patience, empathy, and grace. We wish them the best and hope to stay connected.