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Yogaland Podcast

Summer Series! Understanding Your Super-Awesome (& Complex) Shoulders

Yogaland Podcast

Andrea Ferretti

Health & Fitness, Yoga, Yogaland

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2017

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Did you know that your shoulder complex has four joints on each side? This dynamic engineering allows us to do all of the things we do with our arms and hands. But it can leave the shoulder joints vulnerable if we don't balance them with strength. In vinyasa yoga we ask the shoulders to do a lot early on in the practice (because Chaturanga). So, on this episode Jason talks ideas for offsetting this, the best ways to create balanced shoulder strength, plus proper alignment while lifting your arms overhead.Shownotes: yogalandpodcast.com/episode55/

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0:30.0

Hey everyone, I'm Andrea Ferretti and this is episode three of our summer series. Today we're going to talk about the shoulders. We talked about the

0:47.0

shoulders. We talked about the hips last week. It was great to get feedback from all of you about how much you loved

0:54.7

that conversation. I think talking about the hips is a perennially popular topic

1:00.1

because we all feel so much in our hips and it feels so relieving to work with them and

1:06.2

such the foundation of all of our movements so it's wonderful to learn more about how to work

1:11.7

with them in a balanced way.

1:13.0

Shoulders, shoulders for me anyway in the first few years in my practice were the most confounding part of my body.

1:20.0

Gaining an awareness of my shoulders where the outer border was, where the inner

1:26.0

border was, where they supposed to go flat on my back, what happened when I raised my

1:30.1

arms, all of these things were just confusing for a long time.

1:35.0

And I wish I'd had Jason as a teacher at that time because he explains all of the nuances

1:41.0

really well.

1:42.0

So that's what we're going to cover today and I think you're really going to enjoy it.

1:45.6

Before we get to shoulders, Jason wanted to ask me a little bit about my practice and about the fact that even though I have a lot of range of motion, I still complain about feeling

1:56.8

inflexible from time to time.

2:00.3

And part of what comes up in the conversation in this little short blurb from us is how my practice has changed a little bit as I'm starting to age.

2:10.0

And this is a great precursor conversation to an interview I have coming up with

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