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Your Body, Your Yoga: Learn Alignment Cues That Are Skillful, Safe, and Best Suited To You Paperback - 2016 - 1st Edition
by Clark, Bernie
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- Title Your Body, Your Yoga: Learn Alignment Cues That Are Skillful, Safe, and Best Suited To You
- Author Clark, Bernie
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Condition New
- Pages 325
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Wild Strawberry Productions
- Date 2016-04-12
- Bookseller's Inventory # 52GZZZ00SQGR_ns
- ISBN 9780968766538 / 0968766536
- Weight 2.05 lbs (0.93 kg)
- Dimensions 10.9 x 8.4 x 0.6 in (27.69 x 21.34 x 1.52 cm)
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Themes
- Topical: Health & Fitness
- Topical: New Age
- Dewey Decimal Code 613.704
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From the rear cover
"More important than knowing what kind of pose the student is doing is knowing what kind of student is doing the pose." There is a revolution occurring in yoga today around the alignment paradigm. The concept of one and only one ideal alignment for each yoga posture, taught through an aesthetic focus on how the student looks in the pose, is being replaced by a functional approach that acknowledges not only the intention of the posture but each student's unique biology and biography. In parallel, the paradigm of focusing on the muscles as the limiters and causal agents of movement is being replaced by a broader understanding. The role of fascia is being recognized and incorporated into yoga classes and trainings. Beyond muscles and fascia, there is a wide spectrum of causes for and resistance to motion, ranging from various sources of tension to the qualities of compression. Your Body, Your Yoga is the first book in a series describing the many contributors to limitations in our yoga practice. This book looks at the lower body, and the variety of shapes, movements and potential restrictions to movement in the hips, knees, ankles and feet. Introduced are the causes of resistance to movement, the frequency, extent and consequences of human variation, and their implications for our yoga practice. While short, tight muscles can restrict movement, there are many reasons for a lack of mobility. The causes can be cast into a gradient, called the "What Stops Me? Spectrum" fascia, ligaments and joint capsules can be tight and tense, while compression arising from the body contacting other parts of the body will also impede movement. How these tissues develop their tension may be due to actions of our nervous or immune systems, or it may be due to our inherently unique body structure. Compression is the ultimate limiter of movement and is variable, depending upon a student's individual skeletal structure. All students are unique to varying degrees, and this individuality determines their ability and progress in their yoga practice and its benefit for them.