There are some key movements that are the building blocks of many of the postures in Yoga. Respected Ashtanga teacher John Scott calls these the foundations and fundamental openings and refers to them in his Baby Sequence. In this workshop we pull out a couple of those key movements and show you how to work with them as homework.
This was a bit of fun we had on the beach in Goa where John was good enough to give us a look at some of what he teaches in Fundamentals, Foundations and Openings Workshops. This was mentioned in the 2017 Interview.
In this workshop, Yoga Teacher and anatomy expert Adarsh Williams explains and demonstrates some useful ques for maintaining good stability in the spine, hips and shoulders when performing yoga postures.
Workshop with the lovely Deepika Mehta demonstrating some useful exercises to strengthen your core for yoga.
In this instructional video Deepika shares some of her favorite ways of warming and opening the body for backbending.
This really is a fun workshop that you can easily follow along with. I think this one was my favorite of the three workshops we did with Deepika. Mark Robberds and I are led through some great loosening up drills by Deepika and then Mark shows how this can be related to the postures. We also spend some time looking at opening and strength drills for postures like handstand. Sorry the sound isn’t as good as usual we had a…
I know some of you might be thinking “This is not proper yoga, what are you doing?”. Well you would be right but we don’t always have to be stuck in our ways. This workshop will Adell Bridges was so much fun that I have been trying to master cartwheels ever since. I challenge you to have a go, you may discover lots of things. I know I found out that I may well be quite stable and strong with…
If you are hypermobile It is important to know how to work in the best way during your yoga practice. Often this means focusing on strengthening and creating body integrity rather than just going for deep stretches. In this video Adell Bridges gives you some ideas on how this might be achieved.
Adell Bridges gives some easy to follow ideas for working on bring stability and strength into your yoga postures. Having hyper-mobility herself she knows full well the importance of working towards an integrated body.
This great series continues with Tracey Mansell introducing working with the coming down if you can’t master the going up.