Hey everyone, welcome to Yoga Land Teacher's Companion.

I'm your host Jason Crandall.

This would be a really good episode.

Those of you that have just been listening to the podcast, if possible of all the episodes

we've done so far, this is the best one to see.

I'm still going to talk through it in a way that if you're on the go and you can't watch

via YouTube or some other mechanism, it's still going to work for you, okay?

And if you can watch this one, I think the details will be really nice.

In the last several episodes, I've been talking about technical components and back bends,

whether it's five different setups or how I think the internally rotating or externally

rotating or anteriorly tilting or posteriorly tilting the pelvis wide.

I think those are the wrong questions to ask.

So now what I want to do, everyone, is just give you my personal favorite as a yoga teacher

and practitioner, ways of preparing the lower body for back bends, okay?

And I'm perfect for this job, by the way.

The reason being is, my lower body is tight, it's always been tight.

It's now maybe less tight, but I feel like these little tips that I'm going to give you

because I'm not just going to give you the poses, but I'm going to tell you where I like

to incorporate these poses in a sequence.

And then a little bit of nuance technique that I think is really going to help you help

yourself in your students with these poses and think about things the right way.

As always, the work that we do here, just see what works for your body, experiment with

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