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We yoga teachers are a bossy bunch: 'put your foot here", 'feet parallel', 'square your hips', we use phrases like 'simple poses' and 'advanced poses'.
Let me show you why this is all because we don't know enough. We don't know enough about deep human difference. By showing you how we are all so very different deep down in our bones, you can instantly see how all the cues you've learned as a teacher are at best on shaky ground.
At worst, they injure your students. This info should change the way you think forever as a yoga practitioner and teacher. It did when I found out! Come join me.
This episode will work best on my youtube channel where I can show you the bones: https://youtu.be/gyK7L8MY-yQ
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join my quiet rebellion here: https://www.dhugalmeachem.com/quietre... take my free foundations course here to simplify your health: https://www.dhugalmeachem.com/livelon... Have you ever found yourself in excruciating pain, desperately seeking relief? I'm there right now having had a climbing fall yesterday which has left me sitting on my couch with a nasty sprained ankle. No climbing for me for a while. But I'm pretty relaxed and a little happy that I have the tools to know how to heal. Do You?
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in this second of a series of mini podcast lectures on the theory of yin yoga (see episode 48 for part 1), I talk about the biochemistry (and qi theory of) why we must exercise our joints.
this is highly relevant in a culture where everyone has bad backs, bad knees and bad hips... even professional sports people.
how do we still not know how to work with our bones? what can we do to fix ourselves?
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in this first of a series of mini podcast lectures on the theory of yin yoga, I present why we practice yin yoga.
yin has become so popular over the last few years i feel we have lost the original idea of the first to curate and make this the practice the center of their yoga life... let's get back to basics
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There are 3 levels of yoga practice.
Overwhelmingly, I talk about the physical aspect of yoga as this is where most people start.
This week, we talk about the psychological level.Now, this is not an actually getting naked meditation.
It is a getting naked psychologically mediation.
A getting rid of the loads we carry emotionally meditation.To listen to this episode, please prepare a quiet space and 30mins where you will not be disturbed.
Join me and get ready to let go.... -
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(Part THREE of THREE).
NOTE: This episode is best in video, check out my youtube channel.Most yogis (and yoga teachers) think we cannot do yoga poses because of tension in our bodies.
You've heard this, your hamstrings are tight, lengthen here... or your shoulders are not open, you need to be more open...
But, what if there was a MUCH more obvious reason why some can't do a yoga pose, but another can? What if this reason is not known by most yoga teachers (even the most famous ones).
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(Part TWO of THREE).
NOTE: This episode is best in video, check out my youtube channel.
Most yogis (and yoga teachers) think we cannot do yoga poses because of tension in our bodies.You've heard this, your hamstrings are tight, lengthen here... or your shoulders are not open, you need to be more open...
But, what if there was a MUCH more obvious reason why some can't do a yoga pose, but another can?
What if this reason is not known by most yoga teachers (even the most famous ones).
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Most yogis (and yoga teachers) think we cannot do yoga poses because of tension in our bodies. But what if there was a MUCH more obvious reason why some can't do a yoga pose, but another can? What if many of us are wasting our time trying to do poses?
Before you spend time in master classes or perfecting a yoga pose, come join me to learn the fundamental knowledge to know how to distinguish if you can or cannot do yoga poses.
This episode is best on my youtube channel so you get some visuals....
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learn how to do yoga different here: https://www.dhugalmeachem.com/livelonglivewelli treat sciatica and hip pain quite a lot in my acupuncture clinic. often i give patients a stretching routine between treatments. come see what I offer for those with really debilitating, painful sciatica.
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learn how to do yoga different here: https://www.dhugalmeachem.com/livelonglivewelli recently offered a free workshop entitled the 3 promises of yoga, the 3 big things we all should be getting out of our yoga practice. I've bundled this workshop into a podcast episode where I ask what are the 3 big promises of yoga, and why do so few seem to realise them?
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learn how to do yoga different here: https://www.dhugalmeachem.com/livelonglivewellI used to practice yoga with rules of alignment. In fact, this approach is the dominant way to practice postural yoga today; there is a safe and an unsafe way to to do yoga poses, there is a right and a wrong way. There are cues that yoga teachers give students on how to do poses well and there are assists that teachers can give to students to help them.
But what if the assumptions of alignment yoga are all wrong? I found out they are: come join me.
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acupressure and myofascial release are getting more and more popular in yin yoga and yoga in general. as it becomes more popular, weird and just plain wrong claims are being made on social media about what massaging or placing massage balls on these places will do.
in this short episode, i talk about claims like these are erroneous, even dangerous because they leads yoga teachers to make spurious claims about the power of acupressure.
massaging these places is actually really great, but not for the reasons claimed.
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i continue to be shocked by how bossy yoga teachers are.
i continue to be appalled by how inconfident many yoga students are with exploring yoga poses (placing THEIR OWN hands and feet WHERE THEY WOULD LIKE to put them) and disobeying cues by yoga teachers.
in this episode i list a few very obvious examples of movement outside of yoga that break the alignment cues we hold so dear and that many yoga teachers enforce.
if others break our rules. why can't we?
teachers need to stop telling people they are doing poses right & wrong.
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yoga teachers... don't say press ABC point to fix XYZ problem.
i recently saw an acupuncturist post by a yoga teachers that made me squirm, "massage this point and it will help this problem."
As soon as anyone talks about chinese medicine this way, they are WRONG!
here I talk about what chinese medicine is and then talk about some things that yoga teachers really shouldn't say (and things they can say) if they're gonna talk things chinese med.
come join me.
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live from my attic in milan!
meditation is about being your best friend... no matter what.
this simple idea is empowering. no spirituality, no super powers, not even necessarily liking it all the time... but is nurturing an ability to be there for yourself... no matter what.
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This episode I talk with Paul Grilley on his finding of and understanding of the Taoist Teaching of the Nei Jing Tu - a visual guide to the yogic experience.
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yoga is often seen to be a lot of effort. sometimes, we even boast to others (and ourselves) how much effort we have put in. we wave around certificates and accomplishments. but really, yoga is the opposite. it doesn't have to be hard. it should be really obvious. come join me to consider the lazy way...
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we often define health as physical. but these days mental and emotional health have (finally) seeped into people's minds.
finally.
drugs, surgery and antibiotics are not the first port of call.... and your doctor cannot help.
come join me as I propose a model of health based on a very old (simple) idea.
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coming again from my teacher training bedroom in milan! talking more about meditation, the core of the yoga practice. yoga is not about getting fit. really yoga (and medtiation) about staying...
even when your mind doesn't want to stay with what you are experiencing and going through in life. this is the opposite of what we tend to do.
we tend to either avoid what we are thinking and feeling... or we compartmentalise and ignore. this is bad for your mental health.
medtiation is about staying and watching what goes on inside you... and then you begin to see what thoughts really are....
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language!â â consider these common yoga teacher terms:
"modification" - something one does if a student can't do the full pose
"variation" - a variation on the standardâ - normally for more advanced students. â
this language is a problem. â â
because it makes it seem that there is a 'standard' pose we all should work to... and we could all get there if we work enough.
those who can do the standard teach everyone else (cos they can) and invite those who can to push it even further with 'variations' (for advanced people). â â
this leaves the vast majority who cannot do the 'standard' and have to 'modify' (and get given all those cues to 'improve').â â and how does that feel?
exactly.
i want to you to consider that this is not being politically correct, spiritually liberal or inclusive. this language is bad because it is bad anatomy... come join me :-D
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