Wonderful practice and words to live by x

Great practice

Marc -- Thanks for helping ground me on Christmas Eve!! I have missed your energy and class. Angela Perelli (formerly LA, now Toronto)

Such a jolly teacher with a wonderful teaching approach, great to find you on here

hey nick. you are the envy of most yogis in some respect ... i wish i had hyper-mobile shoulders.
but you need to really work on specific muscle energy to gain stability. in every asana (or in life) you must keep the heads of the arm bones back (front of shoulders) and keep the shoulders blades stabilized onto your back. that means strengthening your traps and rhomboids. i would work with holding plank and lowering to chattarunga and back up to plank (almost like pushups) while keeping the shoulder blades magnetized on the back. if you are hyper mobile you run the risk of the shoulder blades winging out and this can cause problems.
when you are doing downdog ... remember to keep the armpits lifting high to the sky ... people with hyper mobile shoulders tend push their heads, heart and armpits to the floor. heads of arm bones lifting .... always to the back plane of the body.
you have to use willpower to resist the temptation to go with the hypermobility. this may mean backing off "going deeper" and work more mindfully with lots of engagement.
i hope this helps a little. you can go to any anatomy site, check out where the traps and rhomboids are, and find some exercises to strengthen them.
bonne chance! and thank you for writing.

Hey Man! My names Nick. I loved the practice and have a quick question. I have unstable and hypermobile shoulders and am 20 years old. I've been a swimmer my whole life and during practices I struggle with stabilizing my shoulders. Any suggestions?

Thank you!! To be reminded of the way my practice reflexs all that is happening in my life and to be reasrued they are one in the same. I actually got up to a pressed wide legged HS w/blocks all alone. I fueled the kidneys and softened the heart and up I went. Gracias

Beautiful practice, Marc. I just came across your classes on yogaglo. I look forward to exploring more of them, brother.
Peace.
Joel B.
www.yogashackgtown.com

thank you both for your kind words! marc

A great class. Partner poses are challenging for the yogaglo yogi, all alone, but it was very insightful (and entertaining) to watch the yogis assisting each other in handstands, especially Rachel. Loved the use of the strap with the back bends.

That was one of the most powerful classes I have been blessed to be a part of.

When I teach I really work on the aspect of intergration; of bringing our outside in and vise versa and Mark, you just solidified why I do this. Thanks so much Seane Corn for being the first person to draw this integration into my life and to you, Mark for making it that much more powerful! Love and Light, Rachelle