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Prepare for level 2 with Darren Rhodes as he offers tips for finding steadiness in standing poses. This tutorial offers guidelines for setting up your foundation for several types of standing poses.
I'm glad you got some techniques you can tutorial take with you into your practice!
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Great to get a comment from you on yogaglo. Made tax day a little less taxing:)
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I like your question. My answer: stick to all three and more! I say, align with what aligns with you. Yogaglo is such a great resource because it offers so many practitioner perspectives. Via your comments it's clear to me that you are a very mature practitioner. Therefore, I'm guessing you know what works for you. I recommend you not try and fit yourself into any style but rather use each style to stoke your sadhana. As long as you don't feel you must subscribe to a certain system of yoga, I think your confusion can become crystal clear clarity quite quickly. Christina Sell is a great example of this type of practitioner. She continues to deeply immerse herself in many systems of yoga. In doing so she has something very unique and valuable to offer any and every asana student. Lastly, knowing why different systems say different things is useful. I hope that is useful to you.
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Your comment is great news to me. I am really focused right now on ways to clear hip flexors. A couple of key alignment cues for that in asana: engage glutes, tone abs, and move top of femurs back often via external rotation. Also, if you happen to get too much stretch in your back leg in Vira 1: lift your back heel vertical and bend your back knee slightly.
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I'm amazed at how often oblivious I am to the obvious. The obvious does indeed so often hide in plain sight.
Happy Nearly Now Year,
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I'm glad you got what you needed.
Happy Nearly New Yoga Year,
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I'm sending out a shout to you for figuring this stuff out on your own. It is very meaningful to me that something you learned in this session will support your students.
Hero Happy Nearly New Year,
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Way to align with the power of refine.
Love,
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I'm so glad you have found my classes hatha helpful! And wow, you worked at the Laughing Goat! One of the best Coffee Houses I've ever been to. Thanks for your supportive words.
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I understand that of course no one should do what tweaks their neck, but are the stages offered in many classes a traditional/beneficial progression with traditional benefits and/or more extra challenges/prep along the lines of pilates/core exercises incorporated in many classes? For example, from my first class, I heard to raise your gaze in tree to the ceiling, then bend upper back head & look behind, and even for down dog I've heard different drishti.
Hmmm...in my experience to "raise your gaze in tree" would be a more advanced variation, especially with the backbend. Your contemplation is a good one. To find out what the classical forms are check out Light On Yoga. And yes, the focus point in each poses can change and differ from tradition to tradition. I hope that helps a little.
Thanks for pointing out that the obvious is so often not obvious at all! I'm glad this was Hatha helpful!
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