People usually stick to what they are comfortable and good at. I mean if you have a few hours a week to workout you are going to do what you enjoy...right?
Yes of course it is FAR better than doing nothing at all,
but what you like isn’t always what you need.
OR what is good best for your body J
Take for example an already super bendy girl doing yoga 4
times a week… shits gonna hit the fan!
Remember at the beginning of this year the NY TIMES article
about how Yoga can wreck your body?
Just as we as humans has evolved over the years so too must
yoga. Those instructors stuck in the strict constraints of the past may in fact
be damaging their students.
Here at South Boston Yoga the instructors come from a wide
variety of backgrounds. Our
influences include bodywork, personal training, dance, and martial arts. These styles collide to create
something wonderful. I assure you it is some of the best “yoga” you will get in
the Boston area.
Since the majority of my clients practice yoga I don’t have
to spend much time on mobility or flexibility in general. My focus for them is teaching SELF
MYOFASCIAL RELEASE, STABILITY and STRENGTH through a safe and solid range of
motion.
After all most Yogi’s have a PHENOMENAL amount of body
awareness without EVER having lifted a weight!
Here are just a few things to
think about:
Teach students that it is ok to have anterior tilt
sometimes such as in the deadlift, as opposed to continually cueing a “tucking
of the tail”
In addition, teaching rack and overhead carry variations develops strength and stability in the upper back and shoulders as well as the core
-Allow your downward dog to achieve thoracic extension as
well as hamstring stretch, cueing chest back to thighs with bent knees as
opposed to cueing heels down.
(Notice how this causes a rounding in the low back)
Teach that lunging with both knees bent creates more strength and stability, such as in the banded knee lunge below.
Versus constantly sitting into the stretch with the
following Exulted Warrior Lunge.
Create single leg and hip
stability along with glute strength by bending at the knee in single leg
deadlifts.
As
opposed to simply hinging at the hip with a straight base leg in Warrior III.
There is not a whole lot of
supported lateral movement in yoga. Sure we forward fold to the left and right
but the core is not involved there.
In order to teach the upper back and core to the support the torso I
teach with the assistance of a suspension trainer.
Lateral
Lunges with an exaggerated vertical torso for erector and core involvement.
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