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Summer School returns TOMORROW! Saturday morning LIVE at 10am. We’ll dive into pain-free backbends and uncover the information needed to practice and teach these postures with strength and integrity. ⠀ Like any other movement, backbends aren’t inherently bad or dangerous. Let’s stop vilifying positions and instead unpack how these shapes are expressions of mobility that can be honed in countless ways...none of which involve hinging into your lower back, counting till 5 and waiting for it to be over! Less fear. More freedom. ⠀ See you then! ⠀ 📷 @prmphotography ⠀ ⠀ #yogadetour #followthedetour #detoursummerschool #summerschool #teachertraining #movewell #movewellmoveoften #movewelllivewell #yogaforeveryone #yogaforeverybody #backbends #backpain #backbend
A few of our Summer School sessions have addressed hip stuff where I demo’d how to use a chair to assist with active external and international rotation of the hip. ⠀ In the first version, I’m driving the front leg down into the chair and pulling it toward me while hinging forward, trying to avoid spinal flexion. You could also take a PAILs/RAILs approach here too. ⠀ In the second variation I’m working on what would be the trailing leg position in 90/90 (internal rotation) except here it’s isolated while the rest of my body can move around and orient in different ways to that leg. ⠀ Both feel good and are effective ways to deconstruct 90/90 for those who struggle with that position. ⠀ ⠀ #yogadetour #movewell #followthedetour #yogaforeveryone #yogaforeverybody #9090 #functionalrangeconditioning #frc #yogateachertraining #moveallways
@tnyoga brilliantly captured the essence of today’s Summer School session...check it out 👇🏽: ⠀ #Repost @tnyoga with @get_repost ・・・ when you finally catch one of @yogadetour’s Summer School Lives and scribe some notes on your phone and then loose said notes... • Let me try and remember some of the best bits off the top of my head... • Firstly, strengthening & stabilising, in this case the hip joint. YES. I am all about this. Yoga, to me, is not about passive/extreme ranges of motion or flexibility. It’s about how much stability/control you have over your ranges of motion. It’s about the soft tissues around the joint supporting that stability three-dimensionally, so we avoid that pestle & mortar effect of the ball & socket grinding down the joint capsule - yuk. Standing one leg balancing postures are where this works at, which we do in class (half moon to warrior 3). • This leads onto Cecily’s point about hanging out in pigeon, which I am guilty of doing/teaching. What are we teaching the soft tissues of the hip here? To be locked in a lengthened/eccentric state? Well that’s no good. From here on out it’s active pigeon, no more passive/dead pigeon. • And then there’s the best bit. Glute softening. And this has been one of the biggest realisations for me and reinforces the point that what we first learn isn’t always necessarily correct or that things change. I learned at the beginning that powering down the glutes in backbends was best to avoid compressing the lumbar spine/SI joints. But the glutes (the glute max to be specific) is one of the most powerful muscles in the body and NEEDS to activate in order to extend the hip. But as stated in the live video, there’s a difference between squeezing your ass as hard as possible and using your ass to accomplish what you’re trying to accomplish. • See when we’re in class can I ask you all a favour? Question me. Question why I’m teaching you the way I am or why I’m using certain cues. I’m constantly learning and questioning things myself but if you all question me too then there will be no chance of me falling into lazy bad habits, which will benefit you/the class 🙏🏼 • CATCH IT BEFORE IT’S GONE! In our stories now...