27/10/2021
This is what I try to do - help you feel better in your body, mind and spirit
I like doing poses in beautiful places (here I'm up on the High line in NYC.)
It's fun. Particularly when I'm traveling with my family.
But you'll never see me whip out any insane hypermobile nonsense.
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Thing is, sh like that messes up my body.
And it's not normal.
Hypermobility is a disorder and hypermobile poses are a demonstration of joint instability.
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And, just an awareness for you yungins' insisting on continuing this practice, you most likely are gonna have pain in a few years - if you don't already.
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Yoga teachers on IG posting hypermobile poses are not teaching anything terribly valuable or accessible.
Sure, it's art and art is beautiful.
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and body artists like Cirque du Soliel acrobats often sacrifice their bodies for the sake of their art.
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The choice is yours of course.
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But, if you think that you won't make it as a yoga teacher without that kind of IG account...
I'm here to tell you that is a grand illusion.
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There are many ways to be successful teaching yoga.
Start by caring about the safety of your students.
Relinquish the idea that more mobility is good, is better, is healthy, or is even attainable.
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Be relatable.
Be human.
Help people have healthier nervous systems and less low back pain.
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Teach safe, sustainable yoga.
Teach for the long haul.
Teach for life.
