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Our feet and ankles don’t get a lot of love and attention, even though we rely on them every day to keep us stable enough to support and move the[…]
Author: olgakabel
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Yoga teacher’s toolbox: How to work with hamstrings, IT band, knees and ankles
Whenever you plan to work with legs, knees and ankles in your yoga class or private yoga session, it helps to remember the following points: It is important to[…]
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Whenever you plan to work with hip adductors, abductors and rotators in your yoga class or private yoga session, it helps to remember the following important points: Your hips[…]
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Whenever you design a class or a private yoga session to address tension in hip flexors, extensors and QL, it helps to remember the following important points: Your hip muscles[…]
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Yoga teacher’s toolbox: How to work with lower back and sacrum
Whenever you plan to work with lower back and sacrum in your yoga class or private yoga session, it helps to remember the following important points: Your lower back[…]
Yoga teacher’s toolbox: How to work with core and pelvic floor
Whenever you design a yoga class to strengthen the core or tone the pelvic floor muscles, it helps to remember the following important points: Your core musculature functions as[…]
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Yoga teacher’s toolbox: How to work with shoulders and upper back
Whenever you plan to work with shoulders in your yoga class or private yoga session, it helps to remember the following important points: In our daily lives we rotate[…]
Yoga teacher’s toolbox: How to work with neck and upper back
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Follow the sun: Short yoga practice for happy neck
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Take care of your lower back and sacrum
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Is lower back pain gender-specific?
My grandmother suffered from lower back pain for many years. She described it as sharp, debilitating pain on one side of her lower spine. The only remedy she could find[…]
What’s so special about yoga series?
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Fill your heart with light yoga practice
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Looking for inspiration? Join me at SYTAR!
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How to plan a yoga class
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Six elements that make up an inspired life of a yoga teacher
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Three steps to effective yoga practice design
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“What am I going to teach today?” How to narrow your options for maximum impact
I was amused to discover that the word priority came into the English language in the 1400s and meant “the very first or prior thing”. It stayed singular till 1900s[…]
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Less but better: Essentialism in yoga practice design
I’ve been reading an interesting book called Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown. I really connect to the main point of the book which is the idea[…]
Yoga practice ideas based on the Panchamaya Model
My teacher Gary Kraftsow often says: “You can’t teach what you don’t have”. This means that to be effective yoga teachers, we need to practice our own yoga. If you[…]
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