Podcast Alert: Talking Anatomy Informed Yoga with The Connected Yoga Teacher

Dr. Ariele Foster Author

Originally published- 09/02/2017

A quick note to let you know that I was a guest on Shannon Crow’s podcast: The Connected Yoga Teacher, and we had a great conversation about Anatomy-Informed Yoga. Anatomy-informed yoga (a term I made up) takes the best of yoga, the best of what we know from Western medicine about how the body works, and merges them to offer foundational guidance and paradigm shifts that will keep you safer in your movement practices. I highly recommend giving the podcast a listen. But first, click here to get the 10 Principles of Anatomy-Informed Yoga PDF to follow along. I’ll be blogging about these 10 principles all month over at YogaAnatomyAcademy.com, so stay tuned.

http://www.theconnectedyogateacher.com/028-anatomy-informed-yoga-practice-ariele-foster/

Here are more details about what you can expect from the podcast:

9:10 What sparked Ariele’s interest in anatomy

11:50 From teaching yoga to becoming a physical therapist

12:30 Advice to yoga teachers interested in becoming a physical therapist

16:30 The importance of referring your yoga students to a physical therapist when experiencing pain

21:00 Cost can be a hurdle when one is considering physical therapy- how to put that in perspective

23:30 Ariele’s position teaching anatomy to yoga teachers, belief that there needs to be a baseline of understanding

24:20 Principle 1 – Any Pose Can Harm. Any Pose Can Heal.

25:05 Principle 2 – Every Body is Unique.

25:45 Principle 3 – Think Critically “Don’t emphasize the alignment of the pose higher than the individual”

27:35 Cueing Warrior 1 using critical thinking

28:45 What is functional movement?

28:05 Principle 4 – Most Yoga Asana is Specialized, Not Functional Movement

30:55 Principle 5 – Flexibility is No Good Without Strength

33:25 Principle 6 – Variety is the Spice of Life

34:30 Principle 7 – Safe Strength Building Comes from Progressive Loading

37:25 Principle 8 – Listen to Your Body Works 50% of the Time

41:20 Principle 9 – Readily Refer Out

44:20 Principle 10 – Honor Both the Science and “Mystery”

45:35 How to study with Dr. Ariele Foster

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