172: Getting Started with Handstands
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Lucas Rockwood
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 15 October 2015
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
If you’re excited about inversions, and handstands in particular, than you’re going to love this week’s Yoga Talk Show. Ryan Hurst, Program Director and co-founder of GMB Fitness, shares his tips for how you can get started with handstand and what kind of training program you should follow if you want to advance.Hurst holds black belts in Kendo, Judo, and Shorinji Kempo and practiced 10 years as a competitive gymnast. He has extensive experience and a personal passion for arm balancing.
What you'll learn:
- How a "Cuban Rotation" can help strengthen and stabilize your shoulders for inversions
- Why "wall facing" handstand can be superior to kicking up with your back to the wall
- Why "hollow body" can be very helpful for building your core strength in handstands
- How much and how often to practice
Nutritional Tip of the Week:
- The medicinal power of mushrooms!
Links & References from the Show:
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| 0:00.0 | One of the biggest challenges facing yoga teachers and studio owners today is the lack of mentorship and teachers teaching people about the business side of yoga. |
| 0:10.0 | When I first got started in 2006 with my first yoga studio I was really, really |
| 0:14.5 | desperate for help and I was lucky to have three specific mentors my first year |
| 0:19.2 | in business which allowed me to really hit the ground running. In any case, now many, many years into this, building numerous yoga businesses, |
| 0:27.4 | I'm starting to put together some resources for people who are in a similar position, |
| 0:31.6 | people who are starting out, people who've gotten some |
| 0:33.8 | traction and are looking to take things bigger or internationally. |
| 0:37.0 | That would be yoga teachers, yoga studio owners, and fitness professionals. |
| 0:40.6 | And the new home for this project is Yoga Body Business. |
| 0:43.7 | This month we're focusing on Facebook marketing for yoga teachers. |
| 0:47.8 | And we've got some free resources, some free tips and downloadable resources on that website. |
| 0:52.3 | So if you're a yoga teacher, if you're a studio owner, if you're and downloadable on that website. |
| 0:53.0 | So if you're a yoga teacher, |
| 0:54.0 | if you're a studio owner, if you're considering becoming |
| 0:56.0 | one of the two, or if you're a fitness professional, |
| 0:58.0 | please check out yoga body business |
| 1:00.0 | com, sign up for our free resources resources and I look forward to sharing some of the |
| 1:05.4 | things that have made a big difference in my business with you. Now enjoy the |
| 1:09.4 | show. |
| 1:12.4 | If you're into yoga, you've no doubt noticed that hand stands have exploded in the |
| 1:18.5 | yoga world in the past few years. If you check out Instagram or Facebook, there are people standing on their hands all over the world all day long. |
| 1:26.0 | And what I find is a lot of people are really great at demonstrating handstand, meaning they take really great photos of themselves upside down. |
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