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On day 3 of the #sneakystrengthyoga, @trinaaltman offers active range Bird of Paradise. Unbind to find more load!
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This pose has long been my nemesis. Now, I see it as yet another yoga practice for increasing my tolerance for presence and patience. For me, this tool has more to offer me when I use it to challenge myself to get stronger in the ranges of motion it explores. In this video I share why getting stronger is a big part of my yoga practice.
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Head over to @trinaaltman’s page for cues, context, and brilliance surrounding this challenging shape.
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➡️➡️ We collectively invite you to join us for a #sneakystrengthyoga challenge from 4/22-5/1! Hosted by some of the leaders in the progressive yoga movement:
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Day 1: @lizette_pompa
Day 2: @arianayoga
Day 3: @trinaaltman
Day 4: @francescacervero
Day 5: @kathrynbruniyoung
Day 6: @jenn_pilotti
Day 7: @jenni_rawlings
Day 8: @samanthaliftsyouup
Day 9: @laurelbeversdorf
Day 10: @yogadetour
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RULES: Follow all of the hosts & post your version of each day’s pose with the hashtag #sneakystrengthyoga to be entered to win. Winners will be announced on 5/3. This contest is not sponsored by or affiliated with Instagram.
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PRIZES: There are 9 total prizes this year from our hosts (!) to be distributed to 3 winners. Visit jennirawlings.com/sneakystrengthyoga for the full list.
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FOR FULL CHALLENGE DETAILS, visit our web page at jennirawlings.com/sneakystrengthyoga
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PODCAST: Be sure to follow along for special interviews with each host on Kathryn’s Mindful Strength podcast! Link in bio 👆
Are you ready to go from
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yoga teacher to movement educator...
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teaching prescriptively to leading inquiry...
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feeling stuck in a box to re-inventing the boxana...
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being an anatomy-phobe to becoming an anatomy nerd...
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hiding who you are as a person when you teach to owning your strengths and leading from a place of unbridled authenticity and joy...
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wondering how the hell to make traditional asanas accessible to your students to having dozens of movements, corrective exercise techniques, and self-massage techniques that you can teach in a yoga class to help more of your students more of the time....
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Step through the portal that is the @yogatuneup Teacher Certification Training with me this year. You’ll never look back...
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(Links in bio, Monterrey link coming soon!)
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@yogaworks @mobilitymama @gabrielarodriguez4030
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#bodyofknowledge #yogatuneup #ytutrain #interdisciplinarymovement #anatomyforyogis #yogaeverydamnday #asanaeverythirdday #varytheload #varytheloadstoyourbrain #bodyscience #yogaeverywhere #instayogis #movementtherapy #selfcare #getstronger
I think I got about 100 ideas from @arianayoga’s post for DAY 2 of the #sneakystrengthyoga challenge. Visions of all kinds of external load danced through my head. But since today is gym day for me, and I can’t stay away from the kettlebells, and @lizette_pompa totally inspired me to do some bell work with my footwork, this is what I arrived at.
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I was the point guard freshman year of high school on the varsity team. I quit after that year to join the drama club 🤓 but before I quit I was proficient at dribbling a basketball through this pattern. I’m slowly finding this pattern again, but now through KB play!
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See the comments for the video I shot at home that is more true to @arianayoga’s post and then head over to her page for her thorough explanation of the WHY behind this crazy useful footwork!
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Join us in this fun, transformative challenge! It’s NOVEL MOVEMENT FOR NOVELTY’S SAKE. 🤯 If you read up on pain science, you know why novelty sometimes matters MOST for getting out of pain. Pain free? I’m happy to hear it! Getting strong also helps you feel amazing! Feel amazing already? That’s awesome! Having fun is our birthright as humans. These moves are that + more!
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We collectively invite you to join us for a #sneakystrengthyoga challenge from 4/22-5/1! Hosted by some of the leaders in the progressive yoga movement:
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Day 1: @lizette_pompa
Day 2: @arianayoga
Day 3: @trinaaltman
Day 4: @francescacervero
Day 5: @kathrynbruniyoung
Day 6: @jenn_pilotti
Day 7: @jenni_rawlings
Day 8: @samanthaliftsyouup
Day 9: @laurelbeversdorf
Day 10: @yogadetour
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RULES: Follow all of the hosts & post your version of each day’s pose with the hashtag #sneakystrengthyoga to be entered to win. Winners will be announced on 5/3. This contest is not sponsored by or affiliated with Instagram.
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PRIZES: There are 9 total prizes this year from our hosts (!) to be distributed to 3 winners. Visit jennirawlings.com/sneakystrengthyoga for the full list.
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FOR FULL CHALLENGE DETAILS, visit our web page at jennirawlings.com/sneakystrengthyoga
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PODCAST: Be sure to follow along for special interviews with each host on Kathryn’s Mindful Strength podcast! Link in bio! 👆
That's what I feel like doing when the yoga teacher tells everyone to hold the pose (and don't fidget) :-)
THIS by @kathrynbruniyoung and I’d zoom out and argue that novelty for novelty’s sake is a deeply human drive. How else can we explain traveling? Trying new foods? Learning a new language? Exploring a new city? Novelty changes our brain. It opens us up to what we don’t know. (What else apart from novelty has the power to do that?) Sometimes it opens up other worlds of knowing. It can literally be life-changing. To move in new ways (for the sake of making these types of discoveries, so approaching movement with curiosity and wonder) is nothing short of acting on our purest human nature. It is fulfilling our need to be curious and learn. Why stay home when we can travel?
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#repost @kathrynbruniyoung
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Our IG challenge might look random from the outside, but what’s happening is hundreds of people from all over the world are challenging themselves to move in different, novel and strengthening ways. When I scroll through #sneakystrengthyoga I see thousands of variations, it’s a gold mine for teachers. It’s also fun and a cool way for people to share ideas.
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I love this challenge because one of the things we are promoting (among other things like STRENGTH) is practicing in new ways for the sake of practicing in new ways. All the best things I’ve ever come up with were born in moments where I’m just trying new things, that is how innovation happens and I believe that is how we begin to bust the super insular nature of practicing one discipline.
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When we move in new ways we adapt in new ways. We also have a new experience of our body, we make new associations (this can help decrease pain, read @laurelbeversdorf post from today for more on this). It doesn’t always have to “make sense”. There are entire systems of movement that are based on novelty, ever heard the term CONSTANTLY VARIED.
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I think changing things for the sake of changing things has so much value. Yes so many other aspects of movement also have so much value too, it really is ALL GOOD.
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Do you sometimes practice and encourage others to move in a hundred novel ways?? Or is it just me...
It’s DAY 1 of the #sneakystrengthyoga INSTAGRAM challenge. When @lizette_pompa shared this happy baby move with all of all of us hosts I was like whew 😅 GREAT! My baby is very happy, but my new mama body could use a little more of the strength these moves provide!
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Hip flexor and back strength has been of vital importance to me postnatal. I love reclaiming and amplifying awareness in the areas with these sneaky approaches to happy baby.
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This progression of pose orientations is a phenomenal, simple, but POTENT way to get after it and build strength in awareness and coordination of the hips and spine! 💪 Check out Lizette’s post for cues and helpful tips!
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BTW, did you know we’re hosting an EPIC challenge all about getting stronger wherever you practice yoga?
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➡️➡️ We collectively invite you to join us for a #sneakystrengthyoga challenge from 4/22-5/1! Hosted by some of the leaders in the progressive yoga movement:
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Day 1: @lizette_pompa
Day 2: @arianayoga
Day 3: @trinaaltman
Day 4: @francescacervero
Day 5: @kathrynbruniyoung
Day 6: @jenn_pilotti
Day 7: @jenni_rawlings
Day 8: @samanthaliftsyouup
Day 9: @laurelbeversdorf
Day 10: @yogadetour
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RULES: Follow all of the hosts & post your version of each day’s pose with the hashtag #sneakystrengthyoga to be entered to win. Winners will be announced on 5/3. This contest is not sponsored by or affiliated with Instagram.
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PRIZES: There are 9 total prizes this year from our hosts (!) to be distributed to 3 winners. Visit jennirawlings.com/sneakystrengthyoga for the full list.
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FOR FULL CHALLENGE DETAILS, visit our web page at jennirawlings.com/sneakystrengthyoga
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PODCAST: Be sure to follow along for special interviews with each host on Kathryn’s Mindful Strength podcast!
