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- “The hamstring trap: why stretching isn’t fixing your tight legs“
- “Strength series Pt. 5: Breathing for better strength“
- “Strength series Pt. 4: How to stabilize your shoulders“
- “Strength series Pt. 3: Why training your inner thighs matters“
- “Strength series Pt 2: Obliques: the overlooked core muscles that support you“
- “Strength series Pt 1: Muscles don’t just move you–they can heal you“
- “Is your body tight or guarding? Here’s how to tell“
- “Strengthen your feet with a simple daily routine“
- “Make your daily walk into a full-body tuneup“
- “Every breath you take affects how you move”
- “Strong glutes, healthy body: why your backside matters more than you think”
- “Reevaluating rest: Train smarter by recovering better”
- “How to build a mind-body fitness routine that supports both your mental and physical health”
- “Your tight hips are hurting your knees. Here’s how to fix them.”
- “Working out wrong can hurt your posture. Here’s how to fix that.”
- “Spend five minutes a day moving like this and you’ll move better for life.”
- “Bothered by back pain? Here’s how pro athletes prevent it.”
- “Stop stretching your shoulders. Here’s what actually works.”
- “Key exercises you should perform as you age”
- “Tight hip flexors? This simple move restores mobility in minutes”
- “The smarter way to strengthen your core”
- “Say goodbye to bloat with these post-meal moves”
- “A new path to better sleep: evening exercise breaks”
- “5 tips from the pros that every summer athlete needs to know”
- “Get moving your way: 10 steps to your perfect mobility program”
- “This arm exercise helps you strengthen your whole body”
- “Strengthen and soothe aching knees with reverse lunge”
- “5 secrets to moving better and preventing avoidable injury”
- “Sidestep injury with lateral lunge”
- “Why stretching isn’t always the cure-all for pain”
- “The key to strength and longevity is in your grip”
- “The must-have tool for soothing sore muscles”
- “5 ways to get out of a fitness rut”
- “3 couch stretches that relieve aches and pains“
- “What you should know to strengthen the weaker side of your body”
- “Here’s the one exercise our mobility coach says to do every day (video)”
- “Seasonal Blues? Here’s how to move more and feel better.”
- “How to exercise from the comfort of your couch”
- “Make couch time more productive with this workout (video)”
- “4 simple health resolutions that matter more than you think”
- “The best gift to give loved ones? Presence. Here’s how.”
- “What celebrity trainers want you to know about getting fit”
- “Three stretches for couch potatoes (video)”
- “How your seasonal chores count toward your fitness goals”
- “How to practice progressive muscle relaxation”
- “5 ways to boost your health in 5 minutes or less”
- “Reset your body and mind with 10 ‘spring cleaning’ tips”
- “Sleep like a pro with these six expert tips”
- “4 daily gratitude practices to reduce stress and boost happiness”
- “Strengthen your core using only a paper plate”
- “Challenging total body workout with just one paper plate (video)”
- “How to use a single dumbbell for a total-body workout”
- “10-minute workout with just one dumbbell (video)”
- “Choosing the right weight when working out (video)”
- “6 everyday ways to keep back pain at bay”
- “5 tips for taming holiday travel tension”
- “Stressed? Here’s how to take a breathing break.”
- “Your intuition is real. Here’s how to strengthen it.”
- “Back Pain Series Pt. 4: A game plan for living without back pain”
- “Back Pain Series Pt. 3: How to ease symptoms of sciatica”
- “Exercises for sciatic pain (video)”
- “Back Pain Series Pt. 2: Exercises to ease your back pain”
- “Here’s what habit stacking looks like around the house (video)”
- “Back Pain Series Pt. 1: What you need to know about your low-back pain”
- “A key stretch for relieving low-back pain (video)”
- “How to do Tabata training”
- “How yoga helps NFL pro bowler Mike Daniels tackle tension ahead of the Super Bowl”
- “Start your day with this 5-minute yoga routine (video)”
- “Here’s the way to exercise for better balance”
- “Holiday-proof your fitness with these 10 expert tips”
- “The one exercise to do every day (video)”
- “Boost your mood with this 5-day gratitude challenge”
- “How to best burn calories while walking”
- “These common walking mistakes can ruin a good thing (video)”
- “How to boost your metabolism at any age.”
- “How to build a stronger brain”
- “How to start a healthy morning routine”
- “Try this 10-minute bodyweight workout (video)”
- “5 exercises to combat the negative effects of prolonged sitting (video)”
- “How exercising can affect sleep (a Q&A with Dana Santas)”
- “4 Yoga moves that help prepare your body for sleep (video)”
- “Optimize your breathing with these tips (video)”
- “Breathe Better to Live Better Series: 4. Leverage your breathing for less stress and more focused calm”
- “Breathe Better to Live Better Series: 3. Breathe your way to better sleep and recovery”
- “Breathe Better to Live Better Series: 2. How to improve posture and relive pain with your breath”
- “Breathe Better to Live Better Series: 1. Why breathing is your super power”
- “This 90-second breathing exercise will help relieve stress (video)”
- “What Phil Mickelson’s win can teach us about staying fit over 50”
- “Reduce risk of severe Covid with regular activity”
- “Strengthen your heart like a pro athlete”
- “Stop sitting still and do these 8 activities throughout your work day — 3 minutes at a time”
- How Dr. Sanjay Gupta learned about “Habit Stacking” from Dana Santas
- “How yoga helps NFL pro bowler Mike Daniels tackle tension”
- “How to keep your fitness resolutions past January”
- “Can you move 11 minutes a day? You’ll live longer if you do”
- “How to Set Up a Home Gym Space that Works for You”
- “4 Ways to stay fit and stress less during the holidays”
- “Reboot Your Workout Series: 7. Why Recovery is the Key to Effective Exercise”
- “Reboot Your Workout Series: 6. Safely Ramp Up Exercise Intensity”
- “Reboot Your Workout Series: 5. Bike Your Way to Better Health”
- “Reboot Your Workout Series: 4. Move Faster with Cardio”
- “Reboot Your Workout Series: 3. Strength Training with Free Weights”
- “Reboot Your Workout Series: 2. Master Body-Weight Movements”
- “Reboot Your Workout Series: 1. Let’s Set the Foundation”
- “Four Ways Families Can Ease Anxiety Together”
- “Step Up Your Strength and Balance with this Stair Workout”
- “Five Exercises to Offset Too Much Sitting”
- “Try this Couch Workout to Feel Better about Binge-Watching TV”
- “Five Household Items You Can Use to Work Your Whole Body”
- “6 Mind-Body Tips for Less Holiday Stress”
- “Stretching Longer Isn’t Always Better”
- “Recovering from Surgery or Stress? Yoga Can Help”
- “Take a Swing at Aerial Yoga at Home”
- “How to Fight a Holiday Hangover Like a Pro”
- “6 Ways to Sweat Out Stress”
- “5 Yoga Strategies to Stress Less”
- “Build the right workout space for your home”
- “Beyond Namaste: The benefits of yoga in schools”
- “Spring Training for the Rest of Us: 5 Fitness Tips from MLB Strength Coaches”
- “Prevent Back Pain Like a Pro Athlete”
- “Reboot Your Get-in-Shape Goals with Yoga’s Mind-Body Connection”
- “Tap your holiday stress-busting super power: Breathing”
- “3 Everyday Ways to Practice Gratitude for Health and Happiness”
- “Healing Veterans’ Trauma Through Yoga”
- “Breathe Better to Move Better: Train to Breathe Like a Pro Athlete”
- “5-Minute Morning Yoga to Seize the Day”
- “Fixing Women’s Fitness: Strength Training to Empower Body Image”
- “Family Workouts that Strengthen Bodies and Bonds”
- “Beach Yoga to Boost Your Bliss and Health”
- “Be Happier with 7 Minutes of Yoga”
- “Office Yoga Zen: 5 ways to focus and reduce stress”
- “Tame Travel Tension with These Yoga-Inspired Moves”
- “Swing Like Spieth: 3 yoga moves to improve your golf game”
- “Stave Off Soreness Like a Pro Athlete”
- “Sleep Better with Six Minutes of Bedtime Yoga”
- “Partner Yoga Doubles the Pleasure, Halves the Stress”
- “Yoga for Triathletes”
- “Sit Smarter with Yoga”
- “7 Resolutions Yoga Can Help You Keep Past January”
- “3 Yoga Tips to Stress Less This Holiday Season”
- “Curb Klutziness with Yoga”
- “6 Ways to Straighten Out Smartphone Slump”
- “Yoga Poses to Help You Touch Your Toes”
- “6 Ways to Stop Sciatica”
- “3 Good Yoga Poses for Runners”
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IRON GAME CHALK TALK
JOE DEFRANCO INDUSTRIAL STRENGTH SHOW
KRUSH PERFORMANCE RADIO
MAXIMUS PODCAST
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THE GOLF SHOP SHOW – ESPN CHARLOTTE
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THE MINDSTRONG PROJECT
THE QB DOCS
THE ROBBY ROW SHOW
TODD DURKIN IMPACT SHOW
Bay News 9
- “No Excuses – New Year’s Fitness”
Daytime TV Morning Show
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"Walk-the-Plank" Fitness
Creative Core Exercises that are Better than Crunches
Moving through Back Pain
Mindfulness Meditation for the Whole Family
Total Body Workout with a Ball
Spring Training…For the Rest of Us!
New Year, New Fitness with Mini Bands
Stress Less this Holiday Season 2017
Exercise with a Box at Home
Restorative Yoga
Yoga Resolutions
Chair Yoga for Smarter Sitting with Dana Santas on Daytime TV
Morning "Carpe Diem" Yoga with Dana Santas on Daytime TV
Stress Less During the Holidays 2016
Yoga for Golf with Dana Santas on Daytime TV
Yoga for Better Sleep with Dana Santas on Daytime TV
Better Posture with Dana Santas on Daytime TV
Partner Yoga with Dana Santas on Daytime TV
Yoga for Holiday De-Stressing with Dana Santas on Daytime TV
Yoga for Happiness & Battling the Blues with Dana Santas on Daytime TV
Mile High Yoga with Radius Yoga Expert Dana Santas on Daytime TV
Yoga for SmartPhone Slump with Dana Santas on Daytime TV
Yoga for Klutzes with Dana Santas on Daytime
Bloom TV
Magazine & Online Articles
AOL Health
- “It can help you find your bliss, and some say yoga may also help you shed those extra pounds.”
Boston Herald
- “B’s Thomas Standing on His Head”
Boston Now
- “No Doubting Thomas”
CBS Sportsline.com
- “Meet Your 07 Tampa Bay “Yoga” Rays”
Dallas Morning News
- “Sportsday: Outlaws use yoga to loosen up”
Denton Record-Chronicle
- “Baseball Outlaws Use Yoga to Loosen Up”
Dr. Oz’s the Good Life
DuJour Magazine
Everyday Health
Experience Life Magazine
Girls Gone Strong
Green Living AZ
- “Yoga’s Impact on the Mat and Beyond”
Her Sports + Fitness
- “Active Updates: Customized Yoga”
HuffPost Health Living
Livestrong.com
Men’s Health
- “Will Yoga Really Wreck Your Body?”
Mind Body Green
- “Breathing Exercises to Help You Reduce Stress”
- “NHL Star Credits Yoga for Success”
MLB.com
- “Yoga Added to Rays Camp”
- “Rays Add Yoga to Spring Regimen”
Muscle and Strength
Orlando Sentinel
- “Devil Rays First in Yoga: This team won’t be outdone in 7th-inning stretch”
Outside Magazine
Oxygen Magazine
Prevention Magazine
Professional Baseball Strength and Conditioning Coaches Society
Quick and Simple Magazine
- “Have a Serene Season”
REDBOOK Real-life Healthy Life Newsletter
- “Yoga Your Way”
Self Magazine
RedOrbit Breaking News
- “How to keep that airport stress grounded”
Sarasota Herald-Tribune
- “Rays Take on Yoga”
Science Daily
- “How to keep that airport stress grounded”
Shape.com
- “Five Reasons Yoga Class May Be Stressing You Out”
- “20 Super-Fit Chicks Who Don’t Run”
SheKnows.com
South Florida Sun Sentinel
- “Devil Rays”
Sports Illustrated
- “All Over the Place”
St. Petersburg Times
- “Rays Boost Upton’s Workload Hoping He Hits Back”
- “For Rays, Spring is About Stretching, Salutations: Team hopes yoga class will prevent injuries”
- “Young, His Job Secure, Keeps Goals Realistic”
Success Magazine
Tampa Bay
TBO.com
- “Rays Report: Head Over Heels”
The Bradenton Herald
- “Rays Bring Yoga into Their Spring Training Workout”
The Hockey News
- “The Glove Guru”
- “Upward Bruin”
The Tampa Tribune
- “Crawford Plays It Safe With Injury-Prone Wrist”
The Yoga Blog
- “Tips for Discovering YOUR Yoga Pose”
Titleist Performance Institute
USA Hockey Magazine
- “Strike A Pose”
- How Yoga-Yes, Yoga-Can Help Your Hockey Game
USA Today
- “Team Notes: Inside Pitch”
- “Boston’s Thomas Named Clutch Goalie for October”
Yahoo Health
Yahoo Shine!
- “Five Reasons Yoga Class May Be Stressing You Out”
- “Checklist for Making and Accomplishing Resolutions”
Yahoo! Sports
Yoganonymous
- “Infographic: 7 Breathing Exercises & Yoga Poses to Reduce Stress”
- “Finding Inspiration: What Inspires You?”
Other Television
ABC Good Morning Tampa Bay
ABC Action News
- “Tampa Bay Yoga Experts Weigh In: Will Yoga Really Wreck Your Body?”
CBS – Tampa Bay’s Channel 10
- “Devil Rays”
- “Yoga Meets Baseball in Rays Spring Training Camp”
Fox 13
- “Stanley Cup Finals: Yoga and Hockey”
Fox Sports
- “Video of Dana working with Nacho”
NESN-New England Sports Network
- “The Buzz”
NHL All-Star Game Coverage
- “Tim Thomas”
WACH-FOX
- “Tips to Tame Travel Tension”