Sentences with phrase «teaching backbends»

I commonly find while teaching backbends that students create a lovely open chest while doing the pose... then walk over to get a prop for the next pose with shoulders slumping and eyes cast downward.

Learn how to establish a solid foundation from which to safely explore backbends and feel more secure and confident when practicing or teaching backbends.

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I'm not that concerned with teaching you how to do a perfect backbend or offering intricate alignment cues.

One thing that I also find useful, is to teach that the action of the buttocks in backbends and in poses like Vimanasana is: buttocks firm and «pointing» / lengthening towards the back of the knees (or heels), rather than buttocks firm and squeezing in towards the tailbone.

We can teach students how to e.g. distribute the curve all along the back in a backbend: from the neck, through the upper back, into the lower back so we create equal contraction and engagement in all the posterior back muscles.