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Happy Father’s Day to my husband and the best father any little girl could ask for. You are a natural. We love you. ❤️
This SATURDAY in FOREST HILLS, QUEENS! All my favorite, go-to resistance bands exercises and yoga pose integrations for happy hips!
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@bamboomoves June 22nd 3-5pm link in bio 👆
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Learn simple, accessible, and fun ways to externally load your body for increased strength and resilience. Stand stronger! 🔥 💪 And leave feeling like you’re walking on clouds. ⛅️
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You will build strength using resistance bands in both traditional asanas and multi-disciplinary exercises and drills. We’ll explore skills necessary for balancing poses and *active* hip-opening.
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Go here 👉 clients.mindbodyonline.com/classic/ws?studioid=3189&stype=-8&sView=day&sLoc=0&sTrn=100000199
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#yogawithresistancebands @angelabisanti
Peristalsis for the win!
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We can let go of the fear-mongering around inverting while menstruating, and in yet another way, stop telling women what they can and can’t to do with their bodies.
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This is a great read from The Times with a simple scientific explanation behind why menstruation is not affected by orientation to gravity. It’s similar to why you will keep digesting your lunch upside down. Organs like the small intestine and the uterus move matter through them by way of smooth muscle contractions called peristalsis.
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There may be many reasons why you still may not feel like inverting while menstruating. It’s all good - invert or not - just don’t make blanket statements that women shouldn’t invert during their menstrual cycle, as a rule. In fact, there may be many reasons women benefit from inverting *because* they are menstruating.
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I know I do. It improves my mood. 😃
Body sensation, not body position is what matters. No harm in doing inversions if it feels effortless. An embodied practice. Listening to your whole self helps. The problem arises when body and mind are disconnected. Pushing through when the body should be resting.
It’s always good to go with your personal experience, trying different things, learning different perspectives and being aware of your internal landscape.
There’s no blanket right or wrong, if anyone feels helped, great! Yes no danger I believe... yet I have found Ayurveda to be one of the most powerful & helpful lenses from which to see the world, make choices on many things depending on current state & where I want to be... and the Ayurvedic reason is to honor Apana, the downward flow.... and not force or encourage the opposite. I lost my period for nearly 2 years (long ago), and I was doing a lot of things that contributed- not saying that my Ashtanga practice w handstands headstands & shoulderstands up the wazoo was the reason but it was likely in the mix. Best is to question the why of any teaching or practice, and tune in to what the effect is on your personal experience. I believe it’s all possible but absolutely don’t feel like inverting at all on my cycle. (Rolling and flowing on the earth however can cure my cramps, pms body tension & unwind gnarly headaches...)
AWESOME. Thank you so much for sharing this.
YES. Tell the truth; smash the patriarchy.
👏👏👏 I used to get so annoyed about what I perceived as nonsense advice I would always include and demo inversions while pregnant.
Thanks for this Laurel!
Coming to CLEVELAND THIS AUGUST — Dancing with Myself is a huge favorite Yoga Tune Up® move of many. First, it’s weird and different. Second, it epitomizes two important kinesiological concepts - CLOSED CHAIN and REVERSE ACTION.
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To close the kinetic chain is to fix the distal end of an extremity (in this case, the hand) to a wall, floor or other furniture. This serves to heighten awareness of the proximal joint, (in this case, the shoulder.) Closing the chain increases accessory joint movement to be able to reach under-explored shoulder positions. Do the pose on one side and notice if your arm is a full 3 inches longer!
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A reverse action is when the typically more stable body part is mobile (in this case, the torso) while the typically more mobile body part is stable (in this case, the entire upper extremity.) In DWM, your body moves around your arm! This seriously changes the game and suddenly you have to relearn how to coordinate shoulder positions all over again. Confusion in the beginning is inevitable, but when it comes to learning new things, you have to be willing to feel dumber in order to get smarter. This pose raises your somatic IQ.
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I can’t wait to share this YTU gem and many more this August 10-17 (Aug 14th off) @confluence_cycle_yoga for the Yoga Tune Up®️ Teacher Certification Training. Link in bio 👆or go here: www.eventbrite.com/e/yoga-tune-up-teacher-certification-training-tickets-56002880122?ref=eios
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@laurelbeversdorf @tuneupfitness @yogatuneup
#teachsmarternotharder #ytutrain #yogatuneup
🙏#repost @shutupandyoga
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🧐Looking for a YTT? Meet these 4 brilliant yoga teacher trainers who contributed to our article on What to Look for in a Modern YTT [LINK IN BIO]
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👨⚕️Garrett Neill @dr_yogi.gare: If your training is focused on postural yoga and you want to teach poses, then you have a responsibility to understand the human body. 🦵Yoga teacher trainings are amazing because they can fill in an anatomic gap that your other education probably missed. Therefore, the content of your YTT anatomy section is crucial. Modern yoga anatomy should be about how interconnected the body is. It’s important to look at your anatomy content and ask: Would I ever use this in a yoga class?
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🧘🏽♀️Luvena Rangel @curvyyogime: I find it crucial to keep a teacher training contemporary yet true to its source by integrating Eastern and Western anatomy. 🙅🏽♀️Sole focus on Western anatomy would strip away the philosophical and spiritual nature of the practice and train the students to keep their mental resources tuned in to musculature and movement. Sufficient integration of both approaches would help preserve the authenticity of the practice through philosophy & gradually train the students to focus inwards through the asana.
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🧘♀️Brea Johnson @heartandbonesyoga: In the current Yoga Alliance 200-hour model, there are only 20 hours of anatomy required. So little of the training spent on anatomy is woefully inadequate. 🤦♀️ Look for a yoga teacher training that focuses on applied anatomy and biomechanics. A modern yoga teacher training will have a minimum of 30 hours focused on anatomy, and a large portion of that devoted to understanding the building blocks of human movement.
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🧘♀️Laurel Beversdorf @laurelbeversdorf: "I recommend seeking out teacher trainers who are multi-disciplinarians in their personal movement practices and their teaching. It could be a yoga teacher who also rock climbs 🧗♀️ or lifts weights or one who also teaches Pilates or coaches basketball. Multi-disciplinarian trainers are less likely to fall prey to dogma, like thinking in the black and white terms of ‘right and wrong’.
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#ytt #modernyoga #yogaeducation #yogateachertraining #yogateacher
![🙏#repost @shutupandyoga
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🧐Looking for a YTT? Meet these 4 brilliant yoga teacher trainers who contributed to our article on What to Look for in a Modern YTT [LINK IN BIO]
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👨⚕️Garrett Neill @dr_yogi.gare: If your training is focused on postural yoga and you want to teach poses, then you have a responsibility to understand the human body. 🦵Yoga teacher trainings are amazing because they can fill in an anatomic gap that your other education probably missed. Therefore, the content of your YTT anatomy section is crucial. Modern yoga anatomy should be about how interconnected the body is. It’s important to look at your anatomy content and ask: Would I ever use this in a yoga class?
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🧘🏽♀️Luvena Rangel @curvyyogime: I find it crucial to keep a teacher training contemporary yet true to its source by integrating Eastern and Western anatomy. 🙅🏽♀️Sole focus on Western anatomy would strip away the philosophical and spiritual nature of the practice and train the students to keep their mental resources tuned in to musculature and movement. Sufficient integration of both approaches would help preserve the authenticity of the practice through philosophy & gradually train the students to focus inwards through the asana.
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🧘♀️Brea Johnson @heartandbonesyoga: In the current Yoga Alliance 200-hour model, there are only 20 hours of anatomy required. So little of the training spent on anatomy is woefully inadequate. 🤦♀️ Look for a yoga teacher training that focuses on applied anatomy and biomechanics. A modern yoga teacher training will have a minimum of 30 hours focused on anatomy, and a large portion of that devoted to understanding the building blocks of human movement.
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🧘♀️Laurel Beversdorf @laurelbeversdorf: I recommend seeking out teacher trainers who are multi-disciplinarians in their personal movement practices and their teaching. It could be a yoga teacher who also rock climbs 🧗♀️ or lifts weights or one who also teaches Pilates or coaches basketball. Multi-disciplinarian trainers are less likely to fall prey to dogma, like thinking in the black and white terms of ‘right and wrong’.
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#ytt #modernyoga #yogaeducation #yogateachertraining #yogateacher](https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/p720x720/62415219_1048091655381792_1915970514015223808_o.jpg?_nc_cat=107&_nc_oc=AQnvHjEowcIef0n46TYciAk-3Ax_OqvWQajc0dxKjacKKdswLdIwYu5MDvZ2cwdB7QI&_nc_ht=scontent.xx&oh=7686ce5ad53a040d8efe06ea61e42979&oe=5D80650B)