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Yoga for Pregnancy - Part 2 Everyday practices need to shift to maintain balance when pregnant. Some days harder than others. The most important thing is to be kind to yourself, respect the process, and take time to connect to baby.. Full video on YouTube... https://youtu.be/VqlrRbkuT3A #yoga #everyday #prenatalyoga #mindfulness #connection #mindfulmama #pregnancy #Om

What an honour to be a part of this journey with all of you Yoga Teacher Trainings are life-chnaging. Thank you for being you and helping to deliver yoga in your communities!

Yoga for Pregnancy - Part 1 Everyday practices need to shift to maintain balance when pregnant. Some days harder than others. The most important thing is to be kind to yourself, respect the process, and take time to connect to baby.. Full video on YouTube... https://youtu.be/VqlrRbkuT3A #yoga #everyday #prenatalyoga #mindfulness #connection #mindfulmama #pregnancy #Om

I used to focus so much on the intricacies of the practice, the technicalities, the challenge.. Nowadays, yoga is more of an inward focused practice for me more than ever before. I tend to be much softer, moving intuitively, resting when the body calls for rest, practicing loving kindness. Especially with this little one inside, it just feels right. This may be my last pregnancy. So I try to appreciate this gentle time, as I’m sure everything will rev up again real soon and. #yogapractice #gentle #bekind #pregnancy #lululemonambassador #om

Your wrists are not an area where you want to work through pain... . Scientific studies have demonstrated that having a strong core can improve the efficiency... of your rotator cuff. A strong and efficient rotator cuff leads to improved stability of your shoulder girdle. This decreases load transfer to your wrists in poses where you bear weight on the hands (like arm balances, Dog Pose and Chaturanga). . Conversely, if your core is weak, or you don’t properly engage it in these types of poses, your cuff is less efficient and your wrists have to bear more of the load. Practicing with imbalances of this nature can lead to a cycle that reinforces the imbalance and, ultimately, injury to the wrist (and shoulders). . Reducing the risk of harm to your wrists (and other joints) can include decreasing the frequency and duration of poses that load the wrists and correcting imbalances in the postures. If you have developed wrist pain, you should consult a trained medical professional and work under their guidance. Managing wrist pain almost always includes a period of time off and resting from weight bearing poses, usually combined with some light wrist mobility exercises. . In the interim, I’ve found that Hard Style Plank Pose is a great pose to work on. That’s because it’s awesome for strengthening the core and addressing the underlying imbalance and it doesn’t involve weight bearing on the wrist. Image1-2 illustrate activating the core in this pose. Check our blog for the cues! Images 3-5 highlight the muscles of your rotator cuff (infraspinatus, teres minor, supraspinatus, subscapularis). . . Excerpt from: Connect Your Cuff to Your Core in Forearm Plank Read more @ www.DailyBandha.com . . #BandhaYoga #RayLongMD #ChrisMacivor #dailybandha #yoga #anatomy #yogaeverydamnday #yogateacher #yogaart #yogabooks #yogateaching #yogacues #yogaguide #yogatutorial #humananatomy #anatomybook #anatomyforyoga #yogastretch #yogastretching #yogaasana #yogajourney #yogacommunity #yogapractice #muscles #yogatherapy #yogainstruction #treepose #yogaforhealing #hardstyleplankpose, #chaturanga See more

2020 INDIGENOUS YOGA TEACHER TRAINING I am so excited to be a part of this incredible training with SIYA - Saskatchewan Indigenous Yoga Association. For the Anatomy segment, we will be looking closely at the human body and how it relates to the medicine wheel For more info: https://siya.ca/training

Gravity and Side Plank . The shoulder is the most mobile articulation in the body. The muscular stabilizers, including the rotator cuff play an important role i...n maintaining the congruency of the shoulder joint. When the capsule and ligaments are loose, then the muscles must compensate. This is why we focus on strengthening the muscles... (to gain stability). . Img1 - ...in this (1st) position, the body weight is directed at an angle to the alignment of the arm bones. When the hand is placed below the shoulder, the supporting arm is aligned in a position such that the bones are perpendicular to the direction of gravity. Practicing the pose in this (2nd) way requires less muscular effort because it uses the inherent passive strength of the bones to aid in supporting the body weight. When the hand is placed forward of the shoulder, greater muscular effort is required to maintain the pose. . Img2 - People with joint hypermobility depend to a greater degree on the muscular stabilizers of the joint. Placing the hand so that the arm is angled against gravity means that these muscles must also work to support the body weight that would be borne, in part, by the bones. You can experience this concept yourself by standing near a wall and leaning against it. Then, move the feet a bit further from the wall. Which one requires less muscular effort? . Img3 - Vasisthasana with the supporting muscular stabilizers. I go over a step-wise approach to engaging these muscles and the other core stabilizers of the trunk and legs in Yoga Mat Companion Four Anatomy for ArmBalances and Inversions. . Img4 - The three factors that contribute to mobility and stability of a joint are the bone shape, the capsulo-ligamentous structures and the muscles surrounding the articulation (1-supraspinatus, 2-subscapularis, 3-infraspinatus, 4-triceps, 5-biceps(short head), 6-biceps(long head), 7-deltoid, 8- pectoralis major, 9-pectoralis minor) . . . Books and more: https://www.BandhaYoga.com Articles: https://www.DailyBandha.com/ Instagram follow @dailybandha . . . #BandhaYoga #RayLongMD #ChrisMacivor #dailybandha #yoga #anatomy #yogaeverydamnday #yogateacher #yogaart #yogabooks #yogateaching See more

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Ease into Ardha Chandrasana . Img2 - Moving into Ardha chandrasana, begin with a high version of Trikonasana. Place your forward hand onto the shin and press th...e trunk down through your arm. Also, imagine lifting the entire front leg straight up against your hand. . Img3 - Step the back foot in and the front hand forward about a foot or so. Keep your supporting leg knee flexed and then tilt the trunk forward and, at the same time, lift the back leg (like a teeter totter). Maintain the forward knee bent until the back leg is lifted (don't immediately come into the full pose). . Img4 - Then, engage your quadriceps to straighten the front knee and raise your pelvis gradually like a hydraulic lift. Your psoas will stabilize your pelvis. Typically, you will begin to feel your psoas engaging automatically at this point in the series. . Remember to return to Tadasana (Mountain Pose) for a few breaths for recovery between opposite sides of the pose. . . From our popular Psoas Awakening Series of poses. Link in stories. https://www.bandhayoga.com/keys_psoas.html . . : ) . . Books and more: https://www.BandhaYoga.com Articles: https://www.DailyBandha.com/ Instagram follow @dailybandha . . . #BandhaYoga #RayLongMD #ChrisMacivor #dailybandha #yoga #anatomy #yogaeverydamnday #yogateacher #yogaart #yogabooks #yogateaching #yogacues #yogaguide #yogatutorial #humananatomy #anatomybook #anatomyforyoga #yogastretch #yogastretching #ArdhaChandrasana #psoasawakeningseries #yogaasana #yogajourney #yogacommunity #yogapractice #psoas #yogatherapy #yogainstruction #iliopsoas #yogaforhealing See more