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KAPOTASANA
What's really interesting here is finding places of weakness, tightness, or asymmetry, and targeting it directly. If something's out of whack, we gotta build both the length and the strength to put it back. So first things first, we we have to FEEEEL the asymmetry, but then we begin to introduce actions that encourage symmetry. When I practice I don't always know how to do that! Regularly at the gym, I play around with strength building concepts and overlay them onto poses. You've seen a bunch of them so far in this feed, right? #
So much of the practice of yoga is *strength building*-- the front body needs to both *lengthen* and work. Same with the front of the legs, the back of the thorax, back of the legs, pretty much everything.
This will keep your thighs forward enough that the spine can mobilize in all of its different places (not just the low back) and you can research the posture further, for longer.
Pretty great post deadlifts and cleans 🙂 Grab a pvc pipe!

HIPS: there is a real effort keep the navel over the hips and the hips over the knees for as long as possible so as to give the spine a chance to lengthen and circularize. You're not trying to rest on the ball so much as gesture forward from it.
SPINE: the key is finding an anchored and stretching front body -- floating ribs in, coccyx down, lower spine extended, upper spine extended, back muscles engaged.
The spine goes up up up.
SHOULDERS: To move from an extended shoulder joint to a flexed shoulder joint, you just take your arms from down to up... except for our purposes, it requires scapular protraction (wide) , upward rotation (bottom of the blade in to the rib) , and some elevation (just enough to stretch!) ... WTF: first part getting easy? In the second part, I'm using a resistance band to move from a flexed elbow to an extended elbow in a manner that strengthens the tricep. A stable shoulder girdle is essential for longevity in this posture (and practice)!
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2018
2019
strength on strength
makes length @carsonclaycalhoun see the straps
in my hands?

that’s prolly my fave way to use them
in imagesee the straps in my hands?

that's prolly my fave way to use them

strength on strength makes length

@carsonclaycalhoun
see the straps in my hands?
that's prolly my fave way to use them
strength on strength makes length
@carsonclaycalhoun
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2023
this account is the best advertising for what I coach for athletes, yogis, and muggles.

If I were a professional content creator instead of movement specialist, I’d like it to look like:
in imageHIP STRENGTH EXERCISES?
WHEN YOU REALIZE YOUR HIPS CAN ALSO MOVE SIDE TO SIDE & I ROTATE SO YOU ADD THESE 3 EXERCISES INTO YOUR ROUTINE & YOUR HIPS AND LOW BACK HAVE NEVER FELT STRONGER
this account is the best advertising for what I coach for athletes, yogis, and muggles.
If I were a professional content creator instead of movement specialist, I'd like it to look like:
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2024
My "home gym" for the last 4 years has been in Playa del Carmen. @impetusfitnesss welcome’d me and my family in as a part of their family-- so patient with me as I learn gym Spanish. @jaimescandont is a great coach, and his skills as a coach are just 👨‍🍳💋-- they're growing faster than my Spanish, too 🙈. Anyway, I just wanted to share a little about what my support system looks like. Gratitude. Global love, y'all.

Mi “gimnasio en casa” durante los últimos 4 años ha estado en Playa del Carmen. @impetusfitnesss nos dio la bienvenida a mí y a mi familia como parte de su familia, muy pacientes conmigo mientras aprendo español de gimnasio. @jaimescandont es un gran entrenador, y sus habilidades como entrenador son simplemente 👨‍🍳💋; también están creciendo más rápido que mi español 🙈. De todos modos, solo quería compartir un poco sobre cómo es mi sistema de apoyo. Gratitud. Amor global, amigos.

Cc: xo @karen_karel
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2025
I’ve often had other yoga colleagues wonder how I made it so so far in Ashtanga yoga. They say it with a laugh, and knowing wink. The truth is that deep inside we’re all zebras in a room full of horses. I like to think that I’m a unicorn in a room full of zebras. But I know its all just drag. There’s only one of us here anyway. What I think my colleauges really mean is “you look like you’re having a lot of fun with this identity.” I get where they’re coming from— you’re not supposed to overly identify with this experience. Sometimes I think they just can’t fathom that you might have fun with a constructed identity and be able to let go of it. Ask any drag queen the second best part of getting into drag. Getting out of it. It’s the paradox between “be yourself because everyone else’s taken” and “ life is too important to be taken seriously. ”
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in imageJefferson Curl Progressions
Wall roll-down
Seated J-curl
Standard J-curl
Slant board J-curl
Deficit J-curl
Partial ROM with blocks
Deficit single-leg
www.flexibilityresearch.com
Jefferson Curl Progressions
Wall roll-down
Slant board J-curl
Seated J-curl
Standard J-curl
Deficit J-curl
Partial ROM with blocks
Deficit single-leg
www.flexibilityresearch.com
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Amor:

Mi equipo de yoga con mi equipo de crossfit en historias @jaimescandont
@marielchapoy
@kopoyoga
@impetusfitnesss love from washington dc
to
playa dc
in imagelove from washington dc to playa dc
@kopoyoga in tha house
Super DjSet por @jaimescandont
@jaimescandont @marielchapoy @kopoyoga @impetusfitnesss
Amor: Mi equipo de yoga con mi equipo de crossfit en historias
love from washington dc to playa dc
@kopoyoga in tha house
Super Dj Set por @jaimescandont
@jaimescandont @marielchapoy @kopoyoga @impetusfitnesss
Amor: Mi equipo de yoga con mi equipo de crossfit en historias
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Hi, I’m Michael Joel Hall. I started @dcashtanga as a mysore style ashtanga yoga shala in 2014. I’m sharing best practices for decentralizing authority and creating a more robust, antrifragile community. It’s free, and I’d love you to join if you’re interested. Let me know if you have any trouble with dcashtanga.com
in imageI've been doing this long enough to know that practice doesn't exist in a
of me is like the Himbo. 2007 2025
These practices are humanist and secular in nature and I've had the good
• Humanist
• Secular
• Versatile Applications
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