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This empowering self-care focused class combines elements of yoga, corrective movement, and self-massage using Yoga Tune Up® Therapy Balls to de-stress, unlock myofascial restrictions and improve bod...
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This empowering self-care focused class combines elements of yoga, corrective movement, and self-massage using Yoga Tune Up® Therapy Balls to de-stress, unlock myofascial restrictions and improve bod...
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Yoga Tune Up® Self-Care | Wednesdays | Soho
This empowering self-care focused class combines elements of yoga, corrective movement, and self-massage using Yoga Tune Up® Therapy Balls to de-stress, unlock myofascial restrictions and improve bod...
August 28 @ 11:15 am - 12:15 pmat YogaWorks Soho|Recurring Event (See all)An event every week that begins at 11:15 am on Wednesday, repeating indefinitely
Yoga Tune Up® Self-Care | Mondays | Soho
This empowering self-care focused class combines elements of yoga, corrective movement, and self-massage using Yoga Tune Up® Therapy Balls to de-stress, unlock myofascial restrictions and improve bod...
September 2 @ 11:15 am - 12:15 pmat YogaWorks Soho|Recurring Event (See all)An event every week that begins at 11:15 am on Monday, repeating indefinitely
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This empowering self-care focused class combines elements of yoga, corrective movement, and self-massage using Yoga Tune Up® Therapy Balls to de-stress, unlock myofascial restrictions and improve bod...
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Queens, NY | Body of Knowledge Introductory Series | @BambooYOGA 200hr Teacher Training
These modules are part of the Bamboo Yoga 200hr Teacher Training. Contact Angela Bisanti for more details: angela@bambooyoga.usJune 11, 2019: Module 1 – Intro to KinesiologyJuly 9, 2019: Module 2 ...
September 10 @ 6:00 pm - 9:00 pmat BambooYoga|Recurring Event (See all)One event on July 9, 2019 at 6:00 pm
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This exercise looks like it’s either about strengthening my abdominals through eccentric and concentric contraction.
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Urdvha Dhanurasana - Utkatasana Flow on a ball - neato!
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It’s both of those, but really what I’m focusing on are my neck flexors.
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As I “drop back” I’m trying to keep my chin tucked for as long as possible. It’s 🔥 🔥🔥
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When I started strengthening the front of my neck, my neck stopped clicking and hurting all the time.
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And when I stopped focusing so much on pose acquisition, I recognized these shapes for way more than whatever aesthetic goal I was trying to match my body to.
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They present a ton of possibilities for loading the body. It depends on what you emphasize and how. The how is where particular movement choices and props come into play. Here I’m using a physioball to be in a certain orientation to gravity that exposes my neck to more load for longer AND I’m emphasizing upper cervical flexion.
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The POSEibilities can be endless if you think of the poses as just that - endless.
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In the end, there is no pose. There is only you, your body, your experience.
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#maketheprocessthepose
My fave way to do wheel!! 💜😂
Yes! I need this!!
I'm SO trying this tonight!!
That’s a wrap! The @tuneupfitness Teacher Certification Cleveland crew is stepping out with their A game - some seriously good stuff went down during their final teaching practicum yesterday. Professionals through and through, it was my pleasure to watch them come more fully into their purpose and process as movement teachers!
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@confluence_cycle_yoga thank you for hosting this week of learning in your beautiful space!
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@mobilitymama, our work is done here. 🙌🤓
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I’m teaching this training again in Monterrey, Mexico (in Spanish!) in November and Franklin, TN in Feb. Check it out here: laurelbeversdorf.com/events/category/workshopsntrainings/
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#ytutrain
Thank you for everything you have done during this week! It was a privilege for me to learn from you!
One dude.. we need more men doing this lol..
Trends command attention, which compounds their trendiness. Meanwhile, their attention-getting, outrage-inducing 😱wow factor can lack the integrity critical thought requires.
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“I stopped teaching alignment” to “alignment doesn’t matter” to “no straight lines! Spirals only!” —all or nothing type thinking...
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Now let me start by saying, personally, I’ve changed my views on alignment over the years. I used to insist on a narrow array of positions calling them safe, optimal, correct, ideal, functional, not shitty, more efficient, energetically sound, integrated, and natural. I made blanket, unsupported statements about ways to position people of whom I knew little to zilch about their unique histories of loading, structural variations, interests, goals, and sensitivities. I adhered to an aesthetic ideal.
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So...
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I’ve stopped...
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...insisting on what is, at the end of the day, unsupported claims on what is better for a given individual (I haven’t spent time working with personally) under a given set of load parameters. Claims like these often convey more about the identity professionals hitch their #brandwagon to than advice that is universally sound.
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And yet, (the following are my words on the latest Mindful Strength Podcast with Kathryn Bruni-Young
kathrynbruniyoung.com/119-laurel-beversdorf-asana-meets-resistance/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=...)
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“I think it’s okay to teach alignment. I think it’s okay to walk people into a shape and speak to particular areas of the body in a specific way. Alignment is happening all the time.
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If you were to take a picture of somebody moving through space you would see—in that split second that you photograph them—their body in a particular alignment. So alignment exists. I don’t think it’s a bad thing to teach. It’s a way to load the body. You change the alignment you change the load. It’s not the only way to load the body. Orientation to gravity, adding external load—these all also change the load without necessarily changing the alignment.
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But I think where people get a little stuck is thinking in right and wrong terms with alignment...”
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Listen to the rest of my talk on the Mindful Strength Podcast
kathrynbruniyoung.com/119-laurel-beversdorf-asana-meets-resistance/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=...
gotta get to this today
A continuation of the sequence from yesterday - side plank dumbbell flow. 😃
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#werkmode #freeweightworkout #externallyloadedasanas
When the hotel fitness room has free weights! 💃
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Dumbbell deadlift - Tree - Warrior 3 (single leg deadlift) - Tree - Dumbbell deadlift - repeat 💪
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#werkmode #getstronger
Love the 2 hand variation with heavier weight , I do one version lighter weight . Thx
Love this! Was doing something similar in the gym this morning - single leg dead lifts but putting the kettle down at the 9, 12, 3 then 6 position then back counter clockwise. Lots of fun - feel the burn LOL..
Forget the square hips and let your standing hip externally rotate a tiny bit and will access full glute ‘butt cuff’ more evenly (for me this is a game changer!) no straight lines!