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129: Handstands & Flexibility Tips from an Acrobat

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Lucas Rockwood

Self-improvement, Education

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2014

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Listen and learn all about acrobatics, inversions, hand-balancing and flexibility. This week’s guest, Andralyn Zayn, grew up as a competitive gymnast worked and trained with, The Underground Circus, in Vancouver before heading to circus school, where she specialized in hand-balancing and flexibility.

During her studies, Andralyn created a new specialty that combined acrobatics and hand-balancing, and later developed a class that focused on increasing people’s ranges of motion and flexibility. She is now a PICP Level 1 and 2 Certified Personal Trainer, Agatsu Certified Kettlebell Instructor, and Certified Gymnastics Coach.

 

In this Show, You'll learn:

 

  • Flexibility “training” vs. stretching (they’re not the same!)

  • Basic hand, shoulder positioning for yoga vs gymnastics

  • Use of the wall, props, and strength training

  • Passive, dynamic, PNF & balistic stretching - who wins? g

 

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http://deflyingfitness.com/

 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Yoga students, if you're looking to advance your yoga practice, improve your health,

0:04.3

and explore mind-body wellness at the deepest level, then welcome to the yoga talk show, my friend.

0:08.9

I am your host, Lucas Rockwood, and my aim is to make your yoga practice just that much easier.

0:16.0

So hello and welcome everyone Lucas Rockwood here.

0:19.0

This is the yoga talk show.

0:20.0

Thanks for tuning in. Today's show is called Flexibility, Tricks and Tips. I am joined today by

0:25.4

And Anderlin's Zane. And Anderlin grew up as a competitive gymnast and worked and trained

0:30.6

with the Underground Circus in Vancouver before heading off to circus school

0:35.0

where she specialized in hand balancing and flexibility.

0:38.8

During her studies, she created a new specialty

0:41.5

that combines acrobatics and hand balancing and later developed classes that focus on increasing people's range of motion and their flexibility, something we talk a lot about here at Yoga Body.

0:52.0

And so I'm really happy to have her on the show.

0:54.0

Anderlin is a PICP level one and two certified personal trainer.

0:59.0

She's an Agatsu certified kettle bell instructor and a certified gymnastics coach.

1:05.1

You can learn more about her work at deflying fitness.com. Andrelin, thanks so much for joining

1:11.0

us.

1:12.0

Thank you for having me. So we talked to lots of different people from lots of

1:15.9

different backgrounds yoga people sports people but I haven't had anyone from a

1:20.6

gymnastics or an acrobatic or a circus background so I'm really

1:25.1

really excited to learn from you one thing that I learned a long time ago is that a

1:29.4

lot of times the biggest breakthroughs that yoga students and really anyone has is when they go outside of their world and they start talking to other people doing similar things but in different modalities and in different schools.

1:40.0

So I'm sure there's a lot we'll learn today.

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