Hey everyone, welcome to Yoga Lands Yoga Teacher Companion. I'm your host, Jason

Krandel. In the last two episodes, we looked at my five favorite ways to

produce more active range of motion and end range strength in the hips and in

the shoulders. So if you haven't checked out those episodes, make sure to do it.

And because we focused on hips and shoulders, I thought it'd be nice just to

kind of bring up some of my favorites. Go to core strengtheners. Now, before I get

into these five postures that are really my go to postures, I'm incorporating

these in the vast majority of classes that I'm teaching. I want to just really

briefly let you know within my sequences, I do not prefer to have a standalone

abdominal strengthening section of class. Doing so is totally fine. A lot of

people love it. It works really well. I have no aversion to it. It's just not my

preference. What my preference is is to incorporate abdominal and other core

strengtheners throughout the entirety of the sequence. So rather than having all

of those core or abdominal strengtheners at one phase, I like to actually spread

them throughout. For me, I think that this is a little bit more of a functional way

to include this kind of content within a sequence. But again, you can work it

however you want to work it. When we look at these five postures, I'm going to show

you where in the sequence, I tend to drop these in. The other thing is, I want us

to remember that the word core and the word abdominals are not synonyms. They are

not the same thing. Your abdominals are part of your core, an inextricable and

unbelievably important part of your core. But your abdominals are not the

entirety of your core. Now, this conversation is it's kind of below the scope where

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