what will you learn?

highlights

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•  Typical injuries in Yoga.
  • Why and how they especially happen during asana-practice
  • What can be done to minimize the risk of getting injured during practice
• Break down of "automatic cues"
  • Yoga myths and their actual anatomical explanation
  • Dogmas like "shoulders away from the ears", "don't let your knees move past your toes" and "45 degrees"
  • Let's make them right anatomically and figure out what to say instead :-))

• "Engage your core"

  • Why science shows this phrase potentially cause more problems than it solves

  • What actually is "the core"

• Alignment
  • Why and when it does and does not matter

• Breakdown and workshop with specific postures 

  • Backbends​

  • Forwardfolds

• How to cue different bodies into the same posture safely

  • Learn to give your students and/or yourself a feeling of succes every time you're moving your body!​

• Yoga philosophy and anatomy
  • Yin vs Yang practice
    • How to approach them beneficially 
  • Ahimsa on/of the mat

• Functional stretching/flexibility/mobility

  • (PNF stretching)

  • Cold vs warm stretching

  • Mobility vs flexibility and how to utilize both for a stronger and happier body long term 

ANATOMY

BREATH

the intention

Throughout the weekend we will explore the realm of anatomy physically as well as theoretically. There will be group exercises, as well as individual exercises that intends to integrate and tie everything together. Aim is for you to get super comfortable, confident and skilled in applying this knowledge to your practice and/or teachings.

The focus will not necessarily be on learning the names of muscles, nerves etc but rather the actual functional anatomy and biomechanics.

"How does it work" rather than "what is working".

The overall goal with this training is to make practice safer and a more sustainable way to move longterm.

Yoga was never meant to be a place where students would show up and get themselves injured. Maybe the ego would hurt a little bit but this focus on the physical postures we're seeing in how the practice is approached today, calls for more skilled teachers with more knowledge about biomechanics and anatomy. This might be the only way it's possible to be teaching and practicing from a point that honor the roots of the practice, the body itself as well as Ahimsa (non-violence).

Since the practice has become more comparable than ever due to high use of marketing and social media, the responsibility to continously making practice and postures available for as many bodies as possible, lies with the teachers and practitioners already in the community.

BODY

MOVEMENT