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Tension in and action of the latissimus is not directly affected by bending the elbow joint because the lats don't cross the elbow joint.

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Teaching students how to shape the stages of their Ashtanga practice into a life-long relationship, not a static achievement, is essential.

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When you do pigeon with the hips squared, you create leverage for rotational force into the hip joint which stretches the lateral hip rotators.

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Elements of a sustainable Ashtanga practice include using structure without rigidity, cultivating breath, awareness, and concentration. It requires developing comfort with the ambiguity of not knowing how our practice will unfold each day, and the agency to practice anyway.

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To work with kapotasana on a wall, move closer to the wall. Send the hips forward and reach for the wall. Then, when your fingertips touch the wall, push away from the wall and send that energy and force into moving the hips forward as best you can.

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Instead of fear-based cueing and broadly overused alignment cues, let’s talk about how to adapt yoga to each individual. Let’s include a real discussion of risk in that conversation, and acknowledge how that’s influenced by our expectations of yoga.

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When the elbows point out in kapotasana, it's often more related to tension in the triceps brachii than it is to bone shape.

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Multiple different styles of yoga can help manage physical, behavioral, and psychological aspects of work stress.

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Limitations to hip and shoulder rotation in yoga are usually caused by soft tissue restrictions, not bone shape.

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Yoga positively affected symptoms of migraines and headaches across multiple studies in most cases as well as or better than controls.

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