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Said another way, “begin well.”
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Question advice built on the premise of fear.
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Is that how you want to begin?
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Not that fear doesn’t play an important role in decision making. It does and it should.
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It might be the key to our survival as a species.
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But it gets mixed up when we bring capitalism and marketing into the mix.
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Fear is often a point of entry for manipulation by others to sell you stuff you don’t need, and make you beholden to solutions you chose while afraid.
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When I got pregnant, I decided that this would be my approach: take advice (because what the hell did I know?), but not advice couched in fear.
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It was a pretty effective filter for all the solicited and unsolicited advice I ended up receiving.
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One day I was visibly pregnant riding the subway and editing a movement video on my laptop. A woman peered over my shoulder to watch the video I was editing (of me showing some abdominopelvic exercises). She decided she should tell me that her husband was a gynocologist and that I might lose my baby if I moved like that.
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I looked at her, listened patiently, and then told her everything she has just told me was complete nonsense. I got up, walked to the other end of the car, and proceeded to edit my video.
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Yesterday I was talking to a woman at the dance studio in México where I’m teaching. She had just taken a salsa class. She told me she had a herniated disc in her cervical spine. Her doctors warned her that if she didn’t get surgery she might lose feeling in her arm. She got 7 opinions and decided to take the 3 that advised against surgery. She was still worried about why her pushups didn’t feel strong. I asked her if she’d been doing push-ups.
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She said no.
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I said, well maybe you should do more pushups and they’ll feel stronger.
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Look, I’m NOT saying everything has a positive spin.
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What I AM saying is that we should begin well (if we can) and make decisions that aren’t initiated by fear.
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This might mean getting choosy about who we listen to.
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That’s all.
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#capitalismlovesfear #beginwell
Lose your baby?!? Preventing diastasis recti I might understand but jumping to your baby dying all from a bit of abdominal strengthening seems like quite a jump
In my experience capitalism will not end until enough people get rid of their fears. How do we do that? Instead of rejecting well-meaning advice, appreciate the effort, but ask them to listen to you instead. If we can work through the fears we will come up with our own best solution. When you stop, ask the person if they want some time to be listened to. This is the beginning of a healing relationship. All it took was your time, not your life. Capitalism is all about seeking comfort, not relationships. This is a very interesting to be alive!
Desikichar explains Vinyasa as a step-by-step approach where, as I read it, the goal informs the steps, but the steps also inform the goal.
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To me, this means like moving targets, goals can change when we change our approach.
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On my personal path of yoga, my approach has changed a lot. My goals have, too.
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(First, I should explain that I’m less the type of person who starts with a goal and works backwards.
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I’m more the type of person who finds an approach and sees where it takes me.
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I’ve always used my process to show me where to go.
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I’m currently on my third career. 😀
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But because I’ve never been completely fixated on a goal, I’ve remained relatively fluid. I’m someone who is willing to walk away from what I don’t want and to walk toward what I do. )
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During my yoga practice, exhausted, I used to hear my teachers say, “take the vinyasa”. I’d push through chaturanga - urdvha mukha - adho mukha and get it done (surviving the poses rather than practicing them.)
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My approach was to follow instructions. My goal was to be worthy.
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Next came the phase so many of us have gone through (or are in) where, injured, I demonized the Vinyasa Flow practice.
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My approach was to make Vinyasa Flow wrong. My goal was to be right.
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Now I recognize that I’ve always either openly or secretly loved Vinyasa Flow (even in my disillusionment). It’s a beautiful practice and it can feel so good.
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I now also know that it’s important to build the requisite strength and skill for smooth, strong movement.
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My goal is strength and variability. (In every sense - not just physical. I hope I keep changing careers until I’m 99). My approach is adding resistance bands to my practice.
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Their novel paths for “in tensional” movement provide opportunities to get stronger and have a completely new experience of familiar poses.
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This Banded Side Winding Flow is one example. It’s similar but different from the banded flow I shared a 2 posts ago.
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I’m sharing another little sequence soon in my newsletter. Sign up here — eepurl.com/drxbP9
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#yogawithresistancebands #vinyasaflow #resistancetoflow #viscosityflow #goagainsttheflow
I can’t wait to visit Maine this January 17-19! #repost @freeportyogacompany
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We are thrilled to be hosting the esteemed @laurelbeversdorf this January for her Yoga with Resistance Bands workshop series. *
If you’d like to learn how to bring more strength and stability to your practice (and really, why wouldn’t you?!), then this is a must! *
Space is limited, so please register soon. We are currently taking registrations for the entire weekend only. Temporary link in bio to register!
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Please email info@FreeportYogaCo.com to inquire about individual workshops.
⭕️ Banded Compass Flow ⭕️ — named after the circular path one hip takes as it transitions from garudasana to a modified curtsy lunge. (And the static circular path of stability the other hip makes in providing the circle’s central pivot point, like the compass we used in geometry class 🤓).
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One of my favorite ways to move in my yoga practice is against external resistance from bands.
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Adding resistance bands (and upping their resistance) makes the sequences progressively more challenging without making the shapes fancier or more acrobatic.
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This way you can work specifically to progress your strength within the same movements.
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The creative challenge of crafting flows using bands is a puzzle that I really love to wrap my mind and bands around. Stay tuned for more! 🤓
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I’m going to be sharing a banded flow soon in my newsletters that I won’t be sharing here. If you don’t want to miss it, be sure to get on my list — eepurl.com/drxbP9
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#yogawithresistancebands #viscosityflow #goagainsttheflow #resistancebandsworkout #getstronger
When movement teachers position themselves as people who fix or heal, I find they spend an inordinate amount of time in subtle and not so subtle ways either convincing people they're broken or looking for problems to fix.
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Diagnosing and treating — these are not part of a yoga teachers scope of practice.
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Here’s the thing: we can look at what someone does and *teach* them to do it differently without *problematizing* the way they’re already doing it.
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We can also *better help people out of pain* by taking this positive perspective that reinforces the powerful truth that our human bodies are constantly remodeling, repairing, and adapting rather than wearing down like an old shoe.
We can insist on our students’ resilience rather than their fragility.
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And honoring scope of practice doesn't only mean getting clear about what we don't do, but highlighting what we DO do, too.
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Here’s what I highlight within my scope:
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My job IS to help students know themselves better through movement and relaxation practices. I help them do this using a variety of strategies including weaving body science education into my teaching as well as using feedback mechanisms like bands, balls, and props to enhance awareness, coordination, and relaxation.
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My job IS to present opportunities for my students to be able to build capacity and resilience through organizing a cornucopia of ways for them to load in progressive, variable, accessible, and FUN ways (all while inviting them to notice, feel, and reflect.)
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My job IS to collect information by observing my students, picking up on their cues, listening to what they tell me, and researching ways that I might be able to help them even more within my scope based on the information I’m getting.
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Teachers, we should stay within scope because OUR SCOPE OFFERS SUCH AN IMPORTANT SERVICE.
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Unlike clinicians, we don’t just see our students in crisis, we see them through a much wider variety of their days.
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We influence the way they think about their bodies which influences so many of the choices they make.
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We probably spend a lot more time with them per session, per week, per year.
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And we have free reign to use more than just science to help us do what we do. We can incorporate art, humor, and story-telling (to name a few) within our teaching.
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These interpersonal balms are how we enhance collective resilience (and yes, heal together).
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So let’s rock out WITHIN scope and help in the ways that we are uniquely qualified to.
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#Iamnotbroken #teachdontfix #resilience #antifragility #scopeofpractice #organizelearning
Humans are not machines that need to be fixed. Humans are living breathing creatures who need to be freed.