3 Backbend Cues for Tweaky Knees or Hips
Yogaland Podcast
Andrea Ferretti
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 3 March 2020
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Jason and I recorded this episode live at LoveStoryYoga in San Francisco at the Module 1 Advanced Studies training. Since the students are currently focusing on the hips and legs, we thought we'd take a look at backbending techniques. Jason unpacks some of the conventional wisdom about the alignment of this category of poses and then offers some unconventional options for those who don't fit the blueprint.
The bottom line is this: Since there are many different body types, there is often more than one "right" way to approach pose alignment.
We talk about:
* Three different approaches to try to troubleshoot knee pain during backbends
* When it might be OK for the feet to not be perfectly parallel in backbends like Urdhva Dhanurasana
* Why Jason no longer subscribes to any hard rules for how to tilt the pelvis in backbends (in other words, whether you should "tuck" the tailbone or not) and what he does instead to find a balanced arc
* Strategies for preparing the arms and shoulders for postures like Urdhva Dhanurasana (Upward Bow Pose or Wheel Pose)
Show notes: jasonyoga.com/podcast/episode180
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, I'm Andrea Ferretti and this is episode 180 of Yoga Land. |
| 0:04.3 | This episode was recorded live at Love Story Yoga with Jason's module one students of his 300 hour |
| 0:17.2 | training. So for module one they're focusing on creating space and |
| 0:21.1 | freedom in the hips and legs. |
| 0:23.5 | And we just sort of carried through |
| 0:25.8 | with that theme for the podcast |
| 0:27.2 | and talked about the alignment of the hips and legs |
| 0:31.0 | in back bends. |
| 0:32.1 | And Jason talks through three approaches that are slightly different from the |
| 0:38.1 | blueprint that we've been given so you know as he says we sort of all have the |
| 0:42.2 | on paper idea of alignment that we've been |
| 0:45.4 | taught but not all of us fit the on paper description our bodies don't all fit |
| 0:49.7 | into this one mold so we sort of talk through different options for giving yourself or your students if you're |
| 0:55.2 | experiencing knee pain in back bends. And we also talk about how the tilt of the pelvis can affect back bends in different body types. |
| 1:06.0 | And lastly, some unconventional preparations for reaching the arms overhead, right? |
| 1:13.4 | So when you're in the poles like Ordvignonarassna, |
| 1:16.2 | like wheel, you want to get the maximal flexion |
| 1:19.7 | of your arms. |
| 1:21.1 | And so we talk about how you can best prepare the body for that and something you might not have thought of. |
| 1:26.2 | I love episodes like this because it's just endlessly fascinating to experiment in your own practice and |
| 1:35.0 | it's the best way to become a great teacher. So he offers some really good ideas for taking to your mat and |
| 1:40.0 | experimenting with your own body and then you can respond I think more skillfully to your |
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