How to manage hypermobility in the yoga room with Jules Mitchell
Yogaland Podcast
Andrea Ferretti
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 17 February 2020
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
You may have noticed a pendulum swing when it comes to yoga poses that require extreme amounts of flexiblity. Just as we glorified the idea of throwing both legs behind our head in Yoganidrasana, many of us are now worried that we've been doing too far, exploiting our "hypermobility" and potentially causing soft tissue injuries or arthritis down the line. But what exactly is hypermobility? Is it the same thing as being flexible? Can we tell if we or our students have it? Most importantly, what do we do about it?
For this important episode, I've invited biomechanics researcher Jules Mitchell back to help clarify. (You can also hear Jules on episode 160, "The Science of Stretching and Strength.")
Show notes: http://www.jasonyoga.com/podcast/episode178
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, I'm Andrea Ferretti, and this is episode 178 of Yoga Land. |
| 0:04.3 | Today my guest is Jules Mitchell. |
| 0:10.6 | You may remember Jules from episode 160. If you have not listened to that one, you definitely should go back and listen to it. |
| 0:17.2 | Jules has been doing yoga for more than 20 years and she's always been interested in anatomy. |
| 0:25.0 | Over the last few years she enrolled in a graduate school program and started to study biomechanics. |
| 0:30.8 | So she has extensive experience in the study of biomechanics as it applies to yoga and she has a new book called |
| 0:37.8 | yoga biomechanics stretching redefined. |
| 0:41.0 | We talk today about a topic that I think is really important in the yoga community which is hyper mobility and |
| 0:48.0 | Jules helps distinguish between what we think of as flexibility and what is actually hyper mobility which is a |
| 0:55.2 | collagen disorder and it has an array of symptoms and it exists along a spectrum so it |
| 1:00.5 | affects anyone who has hyper mobility it will affect them differently. |
| 1:04.4 | So we talked through kind of what as a yoga teacher in the room you can do about students |
| 1:11.8 | who might have hyper mobility. |
| 1:13.8 | I found it to be a really enlightening if slightly surprising conversation and I'm interested |
| 1:18.7 | to hear your thoughts as well. |
| 1:21.8 | A couple quick announcements before the interview, we have just added a date to |
| 1:26.0 | Jason's schedule this year. He's teaching in Boston at South Boston Yoga on May 2nd. So that's a Saturday. It's just quicky workshop so if you'd like to get more |
| 1:36.1 | info or register you can go to Jason Yoga.com slash schedule. And Jason and I will be joined by Stephanie Snyder at her lovely studio love |
| 1:48.8 | story yoga in San Francisco. On March 6th, it's an evening event, |
| 1:54.4 | we're doing a panel about radical self-care. |
| 1:58.0 | So that's from 6 to 9 p.m. |
| 1:59.6 | and you can go to love story yoga. |
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