Abby With the Rods
Yogaland Podcast
Andrea Ferretti
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 20 October 2020
⏱️ 91 minutes
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Summary
On today's episode, Jason talks with Portland yoga teacher Abby Kraai about her experience of teaching and practicing yoga with scoliosis. This episode is packed with practical info about how to help students with scoliosis approach different yoga poses, which postures that people with varying degrees of scoliosis might want to avoid, and where to go to learn more.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, I'm Andrea Ferretti, and this is episode 213 of Yoga Land. |
| 0:09.2 | You are in for such a special treat today. |
| 0:12.4 | A couple of weeks ago, Jason said to me, you know, such a special treat today. |
| 0:12.5 | A couple of weeks ago, Jason said to me, |
| 0:14.6 | you know, I'd like to do a few interviews for Yoga Land. |
| 0:18.6 | Could I do that? |
| 0:19.4 | And I said, let's sign you up right now. |
| 0:22.4 | So this is his first interview with yoga teacher |
| 0:25.3 | Abby Cry. Abby did her 200-hour training at Yoga Tree in San Francisco and then her |
| 0:30.2 | 500-hour training with Jason. She also has an MS in inclusive |
| 0:35.8 | adolescence education and she was diagnosed with scoliosis when she was 12. She got |
| 0:41.6 | surgery when she was 17, rods inserted along her spine, she'll tell you that story and she's been |
| 0:47.1 | living with her rods ever since. So they have a really fascinating conversation. |
| 0:54.0 | All of my yoga teachers out there, |
| 0:55.6 | you're gonna get to nerd out, |
| 0:57.3 | learn a lot of new things, |
| 0:59.4 | and also just hear Abby tell her personal story. I love hearing how Abby's relationship to |
| 1:06.4 | her scoliosis and to her body has changed since she first started doing yoga |
| 1:10.9 | when she was a teen. |
| 1:13.3 | And I wanted to share something that she emailed to me. |
| 1:18.1 | She says, I'll also say that a couple years ago |
| 1:21.5 | I made the very intentional decision to call all my |
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