A Better Yoga Sun Salutation through Arm Connection

What you’ll learn
Effectively use your arms get more benefits from sun salutations
Learn how your arms connect to your torso and effect better stretch
Learn the path of fascial arms connections to recruit strength when needed
Start to understand the mechanical communication that will bring more intention to your movement.
Use this new awareness beyond Sun Salutations for a more complete practice

Requirements
Some yoga experience is helpful, but not necessary.
All you need is a mat, space to practice, patience and and openness to new concepts

Description
Yoga students of all levels can benefit from learning how fascia (the body’s connective tissue) links the arms into to the body and how you can use those connections to improve the stretch and strength performance in your yoga Sun Salutations.The course will first introduce the core concepts, then it will go over the basics of the Sun Salutation. There are many variations out there, we will use a lunging variation that is accessible at many levels. There will be modifications for various levels including those who can’t lunge or get on the floor.We will then learn about the “map” we are using to understand these connections. This map, developed by renowned manual therapist Tom Myers in dissection research, will help us use our arms effectively. Next we will do the Sun Salutation again, layering what we learned about the arm lines onto the practice.The assignments are just a series of questions to help you assess your personal progress in the work. After a brief wrap-up, I’ve included a short, but complete yoga practice. This 45 minute practice will help you feel the work in a session that goes beyond Sun Salutations. Feel free to do the last video, first. Then go through the course and do the class again to experience the changes.

Who this course is for
All levels of yoga practitioners should benefit from the information in this course
Beginners will start this practice with the right tools for success
Intermediate students may break through to the next level with these concepts
Advanced students may intuitively do this already, but they may also be experiencing pain or feel like they are causing damage. This may help diagnose and correct those issues.