Lizette Pompa, Yoga teacher and strength coach

Lizette Pompa

Lizette Pompa is a yoga teacher and strength coach from Mexico, living in Uppsala. She started yoga in Madrid in 2009 and has taught since 2010. She holds certifications in Yoga Medicine, Jason Crandell's Yoga Method and the Yoga Detour Method, and became a certified personal trainer and strength coach in 2019. She co-founded Yogateket and Hot Yoga Uppsala.

Yoga teacher and strength coach

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Quadriceps and Yoga: Quad Anatomy, Stretches and Strength

The quadriceps femoris, the quads, is the large muscle group on the front of the thigh. It has four heads: rectus femoris, vastus lateralis, vastus medialis and vastus intermedius. All four straighten the knee, and the rectus femoris also flexes the hip. In yoga you stretch the quads by bending...

Posted on 20 May 2019

Latissimus Dorsi (Lats) and Yoga: Anatomy, Stretches and Pain

The latissimus dorsi, or lats, is the widest muscle of the back. It runs from the lower half of the spine, the back of the pelvis and the lowest ribs to the front of the upper arm bone, and it pulls the arm down, back and in toward the body. In yoga you stretch it every time the arms go...

Posted on 17 May 2019

Manipura Chakra: Meaning, Location and How It Is Practised

Manipura (Sanskrit: मणिपूर, maṇipūra) is the third of the seven main chakras in yoga, placed at the navel and often called the solar plexus chakra in English. The name means "city of jewels". In the yoga tradition it is the seat of fire: digestion, heat and the will to...

Posted on 26 Mar 2019

Psoas and Yoga: Hip Flexor Anatomy and the Poses That Help

The psoas (said "SO-as") is a deep hip flexor that runs from the sides of your lower spine, through the pelvis, to the inside of the upper thigh bone. Together with the iliacus it forms the iliopsoas, the strongest muscle for lifting the thigh toward the trunk. In yoga you stretch it in poses...

Posted on 06 Mar 2019

Glutes and Yoga: Glute Anatomy, Poses to Strengthen and Stretch

The glutes are the three muscles of the buttock: gluteus maximus, gluteus medius and gluteus minimus. The maximus extends the hip, the way it does when you stand up from a squat or lift your hips in Bridge Pose. The medius and minimus hold the pelvis level when you stand on one leg. In yoga you...

Posted on 27 Feb 2019