The Secret to Fun Arm Balancing with Allison Ray Jercai

Let's Talk Yoga

Arundhati Baitmangalkar

Business, Health & Fitness, Alternative Health, Entrepreneurship

4.9 • 568 Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2021

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Did you know you don’t need to do arm balances on your arms alone? In fact, arm balances aren’t necessarily reserved only for advanced asana practice. On the podcast today, I chat with Allison Ray Jeraci about making arm balances fun with a unique & fresh approach. We chat about how to get into arm balances without ever balancing on your arms. Fun ways in which you can keep your teaching & asana practice fresh, fun & insightful. The unique use of props & mo...

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0:00.0	This episode of the Let's Talk Yoga podcast is brought to you by my monthly mentorship club for yoga teachers called the Mindful Yoga Teachers Club.
0:10.3	You can find more details at let's talk.orgia forward slash mindful yoga teachers club.
0:17.2	Hi everyone. Welcome to episode 45 of the Let's Talk yoga podcast. On the show today, we're talking about arm balances and how to approach them in a fun and unique way with Alison Ray Jarasi. She's an international yoga teacher who specializes in prop variations, joint mobility for
0:39.9	post groundwork for education, exploratory and accessible classes.
0:45.0	She's also a featured writer for yoga international, yoga you online, and yoga renew.
0:50.7	She's also a feature teacher for yoga anytime and has co-created and led multiple
0:56.9	yoga trainings for studios and online platforms. She currently leads her own set of classes via her
1:05.0	portal called Yoga Hub. She offers on-demand life classes as well as mentorship for yoga teachers.
1:11.8	And I discovered Alison sometime last year.
1:15.6	And I remember looking at some of her work and being really amazed by how fun she makes all these poses, whether unbalances, inversions or other poses.
1:26.8	She was using an approach that was so
1:30.2	innovative with props and skillful and she used them so intelligently. And that's something I've
1:36.1	always enjoyed. We also have a couple of common teachers. So I wanted to have Alison on the show
1:42.4	today to talk about how to approach arm balances.
1:47.0	And so often we get caught as yoga teachers and students in the strap of unbalancing
1:53.0	has to be only on our hands.
1:55.1	So Alison talks about the different ways to approach unbalances, how to sequence what yoga teachers should
2:04.2	keep in mind, why learning how to use props is helpful and just so much more. So if you're
2:10.4	feeling a little stuck in your own arm balance journey or you're wondering how to give your
2:16.6	classes a fresh take, you want to shake up your
2:19.9	sequencing a little bit, then tune in to today's conversation. I'm sure you'll enjoy what
2:24.7	Alison has to share. Enjoy the show. I'll see you on the other side.
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