In This Issue:
- Should pregnant students do yoga while lying on their backs?
- The next 50-hour Online Yin Yoga Teacher Training with Bernie and Diana runs May 10-16, 2021
- Discounts for online courses
- What’s new in the Forum?
- Other Interesting Events
Should pregnant students do yoga while lying on their backs?
Every yoga class has at least one posture where students are lying on their backs. Even the most active classes end in some sort of Shavasana. Should students who are pregnant join the rest of the class in lying supine on their backs? Does it depend on how far the pregnancy has advanced? What is the current medical advice? Science evolves, refining our understanding, uncovering new views based on new data and experiments. Since the sixties, scientists have known … Read the rest of this article
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- The nature of yin and yang
- To practice with intention and attention
- The 3 principles of the yin yoga
- The reality of human variations
- To create a functional yoga practice
- To develop anti-fragility
- To develop mindfulness
Your Spine, Your Body – The Course
by Professor Stuart McGill and Bernie Clark
Up-to-Date Knowledge and Practices to Increase Spinal Stability, Mobility, Endurance, and Well-Being
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- The code—the science of the spine
- The art—applying the science to your body
- Practices—taking it to the mat
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