Drsti Yoga
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Benefits
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Health Benefits
- reduces inflammation (helps arthritis)
- increases mobility
- settles digestion
- lymph drainage
- strengthens muscles and
- improves joint pain by flexible connective tissues.
Posture
- Poise
- Counterpoise
- Balance gravity
- Naturally engage muscles in resting state
- Sink into even give and take of the asana
- Total body awareness and intentional isolation
Recovery
- lowers blood pressure
- reduces cortisol caused by stress
- increases endurance
- pacifies addiction by normalizing steady state.
Personal Wellness Tracking
- own progress Quest
- 1 minute body tune ins
- Hang with ease
- weights
- uneven bar
- neck stretch
MUSCLE ISOLATION & STRENGTHENING
- MUSCLE ISOLATION
- practice walking without bumping.
- your place in the world
- your own pace.
- become familiar with your own body and extend your awareness of your limitations
Core Principles
Energy Flow - Tadasana
- Feet
- Standing
- energy cycles (show picture of body)
- Deep dive into Surynamarskara
Tadasana
- so important to stretch and release.
- illustration of chakras with arrows and energy flows.
- touch lightly on bandhas
- see practice standing.
Sanskrit
- Core Poses Taught in Sanksrit
- Essential elements of yoga
Anatomy
- Muscle and Joint Identification
- Overview of Nerves
- Circulation
- Understanding of body systems
Mini-Lessons
Chinese Power Centers
Face Yoga/ (sci name)
Bandhus
Nadis
The Barre
- Learn to respect gravity
- Move with grace
- Play with balance
- Dance in natural stance
Trauma Awareness
- locate neutrality
- don’t over or under extend (aware of own best place in space based on own unique body proportios)
- Vitamin C Cleanse
- Reflexology and Pressure Points
- Body Sculpting
- Oils
- Gua Shas
- Learn techniques to pull your own bones the right way (armpit over opp ear)_
- feng shuit
- compared to vedas
Chakras
- energy centers as illustration of directional movement
- map
- organs and systems
- corresponding glands
- learn how to prioritize and stack
Somatics
- Therapeutic
- Practice nuanced touching
- sensory input – fingertips