Join Doug Keller for Anatomy and Integration in Yoga: A 3-Part Course on Sacral Stability, Healthy Knees, and the Frontier of Fascia to gain a better understanding of the role anatomy plays in your asana practice. This 10-hour course, filmed live, contains three separate workshops and a full-body practice that will help you understand the “hows” and “whys” of healthy movements in asana.
In part one, The Prana Body and the Frontier of Understanding Fascia, you’ll learn:
Why understanding fascia is important for yoga practitioners, especially in relation to pain and even yoga injuries.
How to look at fascia as a practical medium for the flow of prana (vital energy), and how it’s the doorway between the physical and mental/emotional worlds of human “being.”
The Fascial Distortion Model, which is an emerging understanding of how chronic pain can arise from distortions in the fascia.
In part two, The Bandhas and Sacral Stability in Asana—Especially Twists! you’ll learn:
A practical approach to addressing sacral and low-back pain, which includes a lesson on the structure of the sacrum, and its supporting ligaments and muscles.
How the concept of bandha (energetic locks) relates to movement, with a focus on key actions that can be practiced in isolation or during asana to improve low-back and sacral health.
How to examine traditional yoga instructions, update them with user-friendly terms, and understand the problems that can arise from overly simplistic instructions.
In part three, Respecting the “Curve” of the Knees: Knee Health in Hamstring Stretching and Backbending, you’ll learn:
How the knee has been much abused in asana through unexamined habits and simplistic instructions.
How to refine the "microbend" instruction and why the knee is a secondary "curve" whose integrity is maintained by muscular activation on both sides.
How to more effectively forward bend and stretch the hamstrings.
Approaches to backbending that reduce the kinds of muscular conflicts that give rise to knee pain.