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Weeeeeeeee! Today’s Yoga with Resistance Bands workshop is Hip Deep. Get to know all the muscles surrounding your hip. There’ll be extra special attention paid to the hip flexors and hamstrings.
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@yogaworks_nyc 2-3:30pm. Immediately following the Yoga with Resistance Bands is Body of Knowledge Anatomy all about the hip and SI joints 3:45-5:45. Links in bio or go here laurelbeversdorf.com/events/category/workshopsntrainings/
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#bodyofknowledge #yogawithresistancebands #yogawithresistancebandsTT #jointheresistance #jointplay #interdisciplinarymovement
LET’S NOT DEMONIZE ALIGNMENT while we’re busy undoing about all the ways the ideals of ‘good alignment’ caused us to demonize and create unnecessary fear around ‘not good alignment’ mmm’kay?
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I posted this a long time ago. I still agree with what I thought back then (which is actually sort of rare...🤷♀️)
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#reposted from way deep down on my grid...
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Aligning the body does 3 things.
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1) It creates a shape that communicates, and that others can look at and react to. Alignment is ‘body language.’
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2) It creates a felt experience unique not just to that position, but also that person, that day, that hour, that thought running through that head at that moment, that breath.
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3) It creates a unique load experience for the body that shapes the body and its capacity for future loading.
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For these reasons, it’s good to mix up the alignment you practice in the poses to have 1) something new to say 2) something new to feel 3) some new capacity to build.
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Variety is the spice of practice. Mix it up. If you’re stuck in the lines of Manhattan, straight, 90 degree angles, ‘parallel’ and ‘square’ get out of town and head out into nature where everything is crooked, spiraled, curved, soft and round like you.
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#bodyofknowledge #yogaeverydamnday #asanaeverythirdday #varytheload #varytheloadstoyourbrain #midrangeisthenewblack #asanaeverythirdday #yogaeverydamnday #lifeofayogateacher #onlineyogacourse #instayogis #selfcare #getstronger
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🗣“The Yoga Tune Up® Teacher Certification Training helped give me much insight into my body mechanics, this is after teaching yoga for 12 years with a solid foundation. I feel so much more equipped to support my clients.”
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MAY 3-12 (May 7-9 OFF) at YogaWorks Soho. Link in bio or go here: www.yogaworks.com/workshop/ytu-level-1-ny/
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@yogatuneup @tuneupfitness #yogatuneup #ytutrain #teachsmarternotharder #anatomyforyoga #movementinnovator #thinkoutsidetheboxana
Have you read @kathrynbruniyoung’s latest blog post on alignment? It’s straight 🔥👉 kathrynbruniyoung.com/does-good-alignment-help-us/
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#movementoptimist #itdepends #functionoveraesthetics #kinesiopathologyisoutdated #painscienceFTW #teachsmarternotharder
I can’t wait to get back to real life and have time to follow all this good work! And bring my own too....
@greglehman’s blog on his site (greglehman.ca) is a must read for anyone questioning modern postural yoga’s emphasis on alignment and “optimal” position.
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One of the reasons I find Greg’s blog wonderful is that I’m learning words to describe dynamics that I’ve always been aware of to a varying degree, but have lacked the language to succinctly describe them. Kinesiopathological and movement optimism are words that I’ve found very helpful to have acquired.
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**Words can be dichotomizing, too though, so beware.**
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On his most recent blog The Wedge That Divides: Movement Optimism Versus The Kinesiopatholgical Model (linked below) he lays out briefly the philosophies of the two aforementioned camps — where they agree, but mostly, where they disagree. Here is a sentence that drives at the heart of it (to entice you):
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“...I would argue your view on movement quality importance is inversely related to your confidence in the ability of people to adapt...”
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And here are his concluding remarks:
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“When you are a movement optimist it’s not that you think biomechanics are irrelevant. Its that you have different view of biomechanics and what they mean for the person who is injured or in pain. Rebuking the traditional Kinesiopathological Model does not mean you rebuke all mechanical interventions. Its just that we disagree with your interpretation of when and how mechanics are relevant.”
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I’ve read the article three times. I estimate I will reference it at least a dozen more. #gamechanger
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Here’s the article: www.greglehman.ca/blog/2019/1/30/the-wedge-that-divides-what-creates-a-movement-optimist
#varytheload #varytheloadstoyourbrain #bodyscience #movementtherapy #criticalthinking #movementoptimism #kinesiopathology
