Are people with certain variations in hip structure at higher risk
for yoga injuries to the hip?
Not knowing the full breadth of my
recent yoga injury from an alternate style, they were trying to be helpful.
• Fishman and Saltonstall will describe their study of
yoga injuries with 33,000 therapists and teachers worldwide, and address recent media allegations about the dangers of yoga.
In Encinitas, California I studied with Manju Jois, Patabhi Jois's son, who provided me with an introduction to Ashtanga Yoga» Primary Series (although I had no idea that that's what I was doing) and one of my most
significant yoga injuries, and did a weekend workshop in Mission Viejo with Joel Kramer, a seminal yoga figure at the time.
Also check out Olga's course on YogaUOnline:
Avoiding Yoga Injuries: Common Alignment Mistakes in Backbends and Lateral Bends.
Shoulders, neck, wrists, lower back, hamstrings, and knees are seats of the most
common yoga injuries.
This course will provide you with important tools for understanding the many factors
of yoga injury, and equip you with key resources for building a sustainable practice for yourself and / or your students.
Yoga injuries can be prevented by practicing proper form.
Our shala holds a «Zero
Yoga Injuries» record.
Yoga injuries are so prevalent that there are even practices that rehabilitate injured yogis.
We do a lot of work on practitioners of yoga as a means of helping them deepen their practice, deal with
yoga injuries, or long time injuries that have surfaced because of a heightened mind / body awareness from the practice.