Fact or Fiction: Do Twisting Yoga Poses Detox Your Organs?
Debunking common claims in the yoga world.
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Noell has been teaching yoga and movement for well over a decade. Her classes combine traditional yoga with mobility and strength-building techniques to help students find greater freedom in their bodies and longevity in their chosen sport or movement practices.
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Since 2012, Noell has led more than a dozen yoga teacher trainings, as well as courses in kinesiology and human anatomy. She is a lead trainer for the JOY of Yoga School of Integrative Learning and holds certifications in Yoga, Pilates, Functional Range Systems, and the ELDOA method. Noell is the founder of Mobility IQ™, an accessible movement method that combines the work of joint articulation, resistance training, functional movement, and postural stretching.
Noell Clark’s first yoga teacher wore a spandex unitard, was two-dimensional, and taught asana from between the covers of a cheap book simply called “Yoga.” Following a recommendation from her therapist, Noell turned to the book as a possible cure for discomfort stemming from early addiction recovery. That little book on yoga would change her life forever.
She began her teaching career working with survivors of human trafficking and domestic violence in the New York metropolitan area, where she grew up. What started out as a part-time gig teaching in shelters turned into a full-time career sharing yoga with the people around her.
Over the years, Noell’s teaching shifted from using yoga as a tool to primarily cope with emotional stress to yoga as a tool for the overall well-being of the body and mind. Her career has led her down many paths: teaching privately, publicly, to corporations, and working with professional athletes within the National Football League and National Hockey League.
What have you learned through your practice? That it is imperative to move in diverse ways. As yoga teachers and practitioners, we often think that practicing asana is enough. But the truth of the matter is that we need a movement diet that is rich and nourishing. For me, that means not just stretching but also strengthening, cardiovascular fitness, mobility work, and somatic practices that connect me more deeply to my body-mind.
What is your favorite go-to practice that you do nearly every day? Every morning, I perform joint articulations, moving every joint of my body through their full range of motion. It’s like dental floss for my body!
3-5 words to describe your teaching style. Informational, exploratory, and grounding.
