Hey everyone, welcome to yoga lands yoga teacher companion. I am your host Jason

Crandall. In the last few episodes we've been talking a lot about different

types of mobility, different types of flexibility, and also end range strength. So

if you haven't checked out some of these episodes, definitely check them out.

They're going to lay the groundwork for some of the things that we're going to do

in this conversation today. The other thing is that in the last episode, we looked

at my five favorite ways in my practice and in my classes of helping students

create more active range of motion and more end range strength in their hips.

Okay? So five really good tips. Definitely check that out. So before we look at

these five things for the shoulders, just one more little bit, which is I want

to make a plea to you that especially when it comes to your shoulders and

especially if you're a vinyasa yoga practitioner or anything where we're

bearing a lot of weight on the shoulders, that because the shoulder joint,

because the ball and socket joint of the shoulder, each shoulder joint has

multiple joints, but the ball and socket joint of the shoulder is inherently

less stable and more mobile under weight load than the hips. I just really

want to convince you and plead to you that if you want to create more flexibility

more range, more opening your shoulders, you do that, but you also make sure

that you're creating strength in those ranges. It's super important for the whole

body, but especially if you're going to load up the shoulder joints. Okay? Now,

what we want to understand here, first and foremost, everyone is these five simple

ways to incorporate greater active range and greater end range in your

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