Hi everyone. Welcome to episode 54 of the Let's Talk Yoga podcast. I hope you're doing well. Before we get to today's

conversation, I wanted to give you a quick reminder. My online pranayama teacher training and

immersion is happening for the last time in 2021. It's this October and you can find out all the details and sign up

at mindful yogateachers.com. That's mindful yogateachers.com. If you are wondering what

pranayama I'm talking about, I did drop a free Pranayama class on the podcast and that's available.

If you just look back, episode 42 and that will give you a glimpse into the world of

Pranayama and our training and immersion that's coming up. I'd love to have you join me.

You can find out all the details of the pranayama training and others at

mindful yogateachers.com. Well, now that we've gotten that out of the way, on the show today,

I have Alex Crow. Alex is a teacher's teacher and she has been a former competitive gymnast. And she found that

advanced rigorous asana practice that really technical poses came to her with reasonable ease because

of her gymnastic background. But she was always drawn to yoga because of the philosophical

concepts and how you can apply them in everyday life. But Alex, over time, was she had many

injuries and she had to evolve the way she practiced her yoga and also how she taught it. So her research basically

focuses on the reasons that yoga classes and poses are inaccessible to a large portion of the

population and honestly unsustainable and risky for those who can perform them. So she's put in

years of inquiry, scrutiny,

and development and created certain programs and trainings that have, that are a result of,

of just an evolved set of techniques and approaches that that she found were problematic

in the yoga world. and she's addressed that

through her work and her trainings and courses. And on the show today, Alex and I talk about

hypermobility. We talk about the dangers of being hypermobile. How does that play into aging?

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