“I BEND so I don’t break.” No one knows who first coined this phrase, but search for it online and you will find it accompanying numerous pictures of yogis in various states of contortion. Flexibility ...

SEATTLE — Peter Amelia is a trapeze artist and contortionist with Seattle’s Versatile Arts and Arcadia circus schools. "Increasing flexibility has just changed my life so dramatically," Peter said.

Underpinning many aspects of day-to-day life, such as your ability to move well and stay injury free, flexibility is an important component of overall fitness. It's defined as your capacity to move a ...