Prayer of Protection
I draw down a ray of divine light filled with love and protection
I call upon the white light of peace, the blue light of healing
and the clear red light of energy, and I direct that nothing and no one
shall come between me and my bodies.
1. Good therapeutics is amazing alignment
- Physical and energetic alignment
- Get into muscles, tendons, bones first
2. Energetic Blueprint
- Ancestors/genes
- Lifestyle/habits
- Body/Mind/Spirit integration
- Prana/Blood Flow helps eliminate toxins
- Clogs in Flow (even a little) can affect the physical (Ie. cyst formation)
- Radio antenna analogy (tune according to individual)
- Fascia/Connective Tissue is resilient like a cloud of soft tissue that everything can move through
- Connective tissue can harden, preventing prana from moving through as well.
- heart disease, cancer, mental health can be diagnosed on a fascic level
- Gil Hadley has a video that shows fascia in a cadaver
- when fascia is inflamed, it moves away from muscles and tendons and this is problematic.
- in this case, communication to the nervous system is that there is a survival issue and this gives rise to anxiety.
- we want to get fascia to move closer to the bones.
- heat, anxiety, and fear cause inflammation
- recommend a hatha class with good alignment cues
- 2 to 3 cues per pose (first side)
- can either give alignment on first side and feel on the second side or feel pose on the first side, keep that...alignment
- keep eagle vision ( high level, universal action )
- cues match the theme
- Ie: If the theme is commitment and the pose is headstand --> "commit hands. commit should blades to the back"
- Ie: If the theme is heart and the pose is camel --> "bring length and brightness through the chest."
SHOULDERS
- Purna (Fullness)
- radiating brightness (inner body bright)
- side body long
- spaciousness
- Muscle Energy
- makes body feel safe, secure, loved
- can trigger parasympathetic system with spaciousness (don't block spaciousness with too much hugging in)
- arm bones back
- inner deltoids need to move back evenly
- outer scapula and out elbows (move back evenly)
- can observe thumbs to ensure. If thumbs point back, need to get thumbs to point forward.
- in downdog, adjust the arms like this:
- forearms magnetize (thumbs and index ground with inner rotation)
- coax outer spiral with hand on upper forearm
- in wheel
- bring inner shoulder back by pointing index finger out or towards heel
- prevents rotator cuff injury
- great for emotional clearing
- Extension with Integration
- shoulder blades on back
- extend through finger tips, triceps, biceps
- ask students to look at finger tips as they extend
HIP PRINCIPLES
- Foundation
- needs to be steady and free (balance)
- some students are advanced and will have feet together
- inner edge of feet first (ether, collective consciousness. mound of big toe = space)
- outer edge of feet second (earth. pinkie toe = earth)
-Four Corners of Feet
- shins in
- energy outside of pinkie to heels
- "heels in"
- power comes from active feet, hugging muscles
- arm balances need open hips, shins in, pelvic floor engaged
-Thighs Back/Apart
- frees low back
- widen knees
-Scooping Tailbone (Outer Spiral)
- turns legs and pelvis outward
- outer spiral for outer thigh
-Extension
- expansion allows them to find freedom
- extending beyond boundaries set
- circumferentially, expansion is happening vertically and horizontally
ADJUSTMENTS
-Kindness
-Compassion
-Security and Safety
- give variations and modifications (work from a place of non-ego)
- students are able to feel the action without being fully in the pose
-Professionalism
-Observation
- find beauty
- find place of struggle
-Touching
- notify student so you don't startle the student
- create a relationship before touching them
- slow firm palms and fingers
- hands bright and alive
- hands mold in a liquid way
- tension or resistance is the response to an unfirm touch
- soften if met with tension or resistance
-Stability
- stabalize before you adjust
- if adjusting hips, look at feet, set student out of the pose and move the feet to stabalize before adjusting.
- place yourself where you can support (in tree, stand behind the student if adjusting shoulders)
- can use fore-arms to adjust
- stabalize periphery, then adjust (in triangle, take the extended arm foreward, then take the head of the arm bone back and extend the arm)
- 4 Types of Adjustments
- therapeutic
- purpose is to clear pain or injury
1. Opening or Deepening the opening
- side-angle
2. Stabilize
- provide steadiness and integration
- triangle
3. Positioning and Alignment
- downdog
4. Feel Good Adjustments
- tadasana
- Adjustment Practice
1. Downdog (alignment)
- getting shoulders in socket and spiral arms
2. Triangle (stabilize)
- head of arm bones back
3. Side-Angle (opening)
- inner spiral
4. Tadasana (feel-good)
- organic extension
Body as Subconscious
- Freud
- Experiences are buried and repressed. They later emerge through mental/physical illness
- Subconscious Mind
- measurable physical process
- Opiate Receptors (come from genetics, experience)
- each molecule has information associated with it
- cell receives information when another molecule binds
- information then goes through blood, organs, tissues, brains
- when the information gets to the brain, it reaches the frontal cortexx where consciousness is experienced. Here, is where release of the emotion happens
- Neuropeptides (generated in your system)
- examples include endorphins (runner's high), prolactin, insulin
- Dense concentrations of receptors and neuropeptides reside around the chakras
- emotions are the link
- Aneoda Judith (rcommended reading)
- recommends healthy diet, no heavy drugs, exercise, mindfulness, stress reduction
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