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By Julie Gudmestad
Just as you can practice heart opening in your thoughts and emotions, you can also experience opening the heart space in your physical body.
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Are your students really ready to invert? Help them condition the muscles that support the shoulder blades to build safe, stable inversions.
Help your students safely relax the neck, shoulders, and jaw, an area that tends to hold a lot of tension.
Incorporating anatomical language into your classes can increase your students' awareness of their bodies and their asanas. Learn how to introduce anatomical terminology accurately and skillfully.
Chanting and other techniques using sound linked to breathing can bring awareness to dull areas of the body and help relieve pain.
Learn how to identify and heal your students' soft-tissue injuries.
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Your students expect you to individualize your instructions to them, help them modify poses for their bodies, and steer clear of injuries caused by poor alignment. But it's hard to do those things if you don't have a sound base of knowledge of human anatomy. This channel has many articles on basic anatomy terminology and detailed anatomy information specific to parts of the body and popular yoga poses.
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