February 9, 2023 • 17 mins
The Functional Anatomy Starter Kit: How to get Better at Reading Bodies | The Asana Academy Podcast
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(00:00):
So as a yoga teacher, one of themost high value skills that you
(00:04):
can learn to develop foryourself.
Is moving beyond teaching theposes and teaching the asanas
and reciting the general cuesand learning how to read bodies.
And so that's what today's showis all about, is talking about
how to get better at readingbodies.
And so first off, what does thatmean?
(00:24):
To be able to accurately read abody.
And what does that look like?
So a lot of times you'll see in,in yoga when you're teaching and
you're practicing or you'repracticing and other people like
in the room, You'll see thingsgoing wrong with them, right?
And a lot of people, and these,this reading bodies are what are
(00:45):
called second level corrections.
And first level corrections Ishould say are.
When you see people in the roompracticing, and they're there
doing whatever they're trainingtheir practice, their pose,
their side angle, and they'redoing something wrong, right?
And it just looks wrong.
Like their knee is buckling in,or maybe their hip is like all
cranked out in warrior two orwhatever it is, or their hip is
all twisted and dancer pose.
(01:06):
Whatever that is.
First level correction.
Is just, okay.
Your hip is up.
Move your hip down.
Okay.
Your foot is turned in, turnyour foot out or face your toes
forward, whatever it is or your.
Your shoulders collapsing down,pull it back out.
So it stacks over the oppositeshoulder, right?
Those are first levelcorrections and those are first
(01:26):
level cues.
Now what you really want to getgood at?
Is learning to read.
What's actually going on in thebody, the deeper level.
So if you see someone whorepeatedly, because here's the
thing about, here's the thingabout the human body.
That's very important tounderstand.
(01:47):
Is that if you see someone whois routinely.
In a pose wrong, for example, ortheir hip is always like off in
some way or their arm is alwaysin the wrong location in some
way, or their shoulders alwaysslouched.
You can give them a cue.
And in the short term, they cansnap out of it and then they can
ply.
They can listen to you andthey're like, oh, I better pull
(02:08):
this back.
And so in the short-term theycan readjust themselves to get
into that position or whateverthat is.
But in the longterm.
Their body is just going to wantto go back to that natural shape
that it's resting in.
And that shape is that is thevisual shape that you notice.
When you are, you're going tocorrect them, right?
It's oh, I see their shoulderscompletely collapsed inward.
(02:30):
So let me give them thatcorrection, but it's going to
keep going back to that.
And one cue and one correctionof them moving their shoulder
back as they have a split secondreminder.
Isn't really going to actuallysolve the PR the deeper problem
as to why the shoulder's goingin to begin with.
And so this is what, this is theskill.
That comes with learning how toread bodies.
(02:52):
And so this is what I actuallydid when I first started
teaching, when I was trying toget better at just looking at
what's in front of me andassessing.
The bodies that were in front ofme was.
I would look and I would thinkin class and I would see when
people would do things wrong.
And.
I would keep a notebook or Iwould keep like a mental note.
(03:14):
And then after class I wouldwrite down the I would write
down.
What I saw going on.
And then I would go back and Iwould cross verify it.
With, I would look at, I had allsorts of different anatomy books
and whatnot.
And I would try to make areference as to what
anatomically was going on behindthe scenes or underneath the
(03:37):
surface that was causing theirshoulder to buckle in or their
hip to stick out in a funky wayor their need to look strange or
for whatever that was.
I would just make.
Little like notes in a notebook.
And this was back in.
I don't know, maybe maybe 15years or so.
Go maybe.
This was around the time.
(03:58):
My point is this around the timebefore, like Google docs was big
and And you had all thesedifferent anatomy, naps apps.
So you had to go back and youhad to look through things like
through, you had to actually golook in a book.
And find stuff and.
I believe I used I really likedthe book.
The complete anatomy of hot toyoga was one of the books.
It was a really good.
And, I'd write things down.
I still wrote them down in anotebook.
(04:19):
Like I didn't use like virtualpaper on my iPad.
Like I do today.
And all the different anatomyapp apps that I have.
So I used to make note, so Icould understand the second
level corrections and so that Icould look at someone.
And I could say to them if theirspine is always rounded in this
position or their shouldersalways doing this.
I could present to them,obviously not all in the middle
(04:41):
of teaching.
But you can present to them.
The.
The level of the second level ofcorrection oh, by the way, did
you realize that your body isdoing this or your shoulders
doing this?
Because your QL on this side istight and that's actually
causing your pelvis to tiltupward and it's creating this
(05:02):
torque in this pose and thenyour arm slants in the wrong
direction.
That's an example of reading thebody.
That's a second level cue.
And what you should do iswhenever.
And something else you shouldmake note of is that when you
are teaching.
Or you're giving in a classroomsetting, say like a first level
correction, move your shoulderback, move your hip back.
(05:23):
This, and this.
In your head, you wanted themverify that on your own
afterwards.
And then say, what is causing itor why is their shoulder, why is
their shoulder doing that?
Or why is their hip doing that?
And then that becomes yourhomework.
That's the homework in your headthat you go through.
(05:44):
And then you say to yourself,okay, I'm going to go.
I'm going to go back and I'mgoing to make a note of all of
my cues or I'm in make a note ofthe first level cues.
And then I'm going to then goback on my own time and start to
learn.
What the second level Q thereis.
Right?
Which is, let me understand.
(06:04):
The what and the why behind.
The Q that I gave.
So you start to then makedifferent correlations in the
body as to.
Why things go wrong and what it,what is actually at the surface,
right?
The surface level.
Of it.
So you see like a lot, like youcan see a lot of different
things that happened in a lot ofstress, like strange variations
(06:28):
of things, but you also start topick up patterns, right?
You notice patterns.
For example, and this is wherethis is ultimately what leads
you into then being able to workwith more clients effectively.
Is by diagnosis being, beingable to diagnose what's going on
at a deeper level and thenarticulate that to them and
that, and fun fact, by the way,doing this on my own.
(06:52):
Was what ultimately led me tocreating an online business
because when I started it wasjust the blog and I wanted to, I
wanted a place where I couldshare these deeper level
corrections or these deeper.
The second level queues.
To get good at reading body,right?
For example, you'll see a lot ofpeople and in very simple,
(07:12):
right?
Like sometimes you'll see a lotof great examples of this as
you'll see in a yoga class alot, at anterior tilt, right?
You'll see at hip that's tilted,right?
So anterior tilt, the front ofthe hip goes forward.
The back of the hip goes up.
And then you've got this littlespinal compression as a result
of the back part of your pelvisgoing up and you'll hear yoga
teachers say.
(07:33):
Drop your back hip or somethingor level your pelvis or
something like that, or liftyour front.
Lift your front hip frontal hippoints up.
Those are a lot of general cues,right?
Those are first level cues.
And in the moment they'rehelpful to shed awareness for
the practitioner.
But then why are they doingthat?
Why does their body want todefault?
To that right.
And.
Part of it is because like, whenI see that, and it's not always
(07:55):
this, but I see this a lot.
I work with a lot of people withthe TVA and the core.
Oftentimes someone has a habitof their core, not engaging, say
in a standing pose.
So their QL muscles, the musclesin the back that attached the
top of the pelvis to the bottomof the rib cage.
They then start to work likecore muscles and they tighten
(08:17):
right.
They tighten and they shorten.
And because the bottom of the QLattaches to the top of the
pelvis.
Oftentimes when that muscleshortens your body has two
choices.
The muscle will either pull therib cage down or the Pell, the
back of the pelvis back up.
And oftentimes it's easier ifthe QL is a little bit tied, it
tends to pull the pelvis up.
(08:38):
And that's what over time startsto tell.
That you're the pelvis into ananteriorly tilted position.
So then the deeper level aswell, what's the cue is to, get
your hips level or to lift yourfrontal hip points or drop.
Your backup points.
But the second level and thereason why that's happening.
(08:59):
The reason why that's happeningis because they have QL muscles
that are engaging in place ofthe TVA.
So the bigger correction, thelong term.
Solution is to learn, to engagethe core properly so that you
can use it in standing poses.
And then by default, you can getyour QL muscles.
Two, you can get your QL musclesthen to release, right?
(09:20):
Because well, not to get too indepth here on this specific
episode for this, but guess whathappens?
Why do people have tight QLC?
The QL is, are tight because.
They're working like prime,they're working as hard as a
primary stabilizing musclebecause the primary stabilizing
muscles aren't working.
So of course they get tight andthey get stressed and they get
tight.
(09:41):
When the bigger muscles startworking that muscle shortens,
right?
Shortens it lengthens becauseit's no longer being overworked.
You gain a lot of mobility bysimply balancing your body.
That's one of the.
One of the most, I thinkprofound moments students have
in my core and bodybreakthrough, they have is a lot
of times when you see people whoare, have tight bodies.
(10:03):
They think it's a mobilitything, but it's not, it's just a
simple, it's just the simplefact that their body's
imbalanced.
So you've got muscles that areworking in ways that shouldn't,
that they shouldn't be workingor overworking or over stress
and they get tight.
So if you balance your body, youcan actually regain mobility by
effectively resetting yourmuscles without even stretching.
So those are things to thinkabout where those are real good.
(10:27):
Things just learn and you haveto practice, you have to build
that muscle.
And it's understanding the it'sreally understanding that the
second level of queuing and thedepth as to why.
Which is oftentimes we see aproblem.
And we're quick to just label itas the problem.
That's the problem.
Their hip is out, but actuallyit's not really the problem.
(10:48):
That's just the symptom of abigger problem that's causing
their body to repeatedly create.
To do that in that pose orwhatever that is, then you start
to look at it and you start to.
Just go back.
And troubleshoot.
And the more you do this, themore you start to learn, do you
understand the depth ofconnections within the body?
And that's the essence.
Of really teaching yoga.
(11:08):
And that's the essence of reallygetting into it is you have to
move beyond the post-its right.
Just move beyond them.
That's.
Really, if you want to separateyourself and become a great yoga
teacher and extraordinary yogateachers, you just learn to read
bodies.
Because most, these days arejust reciting cues and they know
the poses and the names and,they try to recite Sanskrit and,
(11:29):
but that doesn't really doanything right.
And most people, ultimately,they don't want a short-term
correction.
They want a longterm fix, but ifthey knew what the problem was,
they would be able to fix it alot easier, but they don't.
That's why they don't have.
A that's why they, that's whytheir body stuck like that.
So you then go and you startlearning how to do this.
(11:50):
And you start to develop thatskillset.
You will become more valuable.
You'll be able to look at peopleand be able to accurately
diagnose what's going on.
You'll be able to look at backpain way easier and people
you'll be able to look atshoulder, neck pain, knee pain,
hip pain.
You'll be able to look andyou'll be able to say what is
causing that?
What's what is the type, what isactually going on here?
(12:13):
And.
When you think about it, I liketo take those individual points
like that.
Like when you talk about backpain, are you talking about knee
pain?
That's no different than oppose.
In that like low this is goingwrong and extended side angle.
That's the prop.
The problem.
If the hip is doing some strangething and extended side angle,
That's the symptom.
What's the bigger problem.
(12:33):
Just like back pain, just likeknee pain.
Those are just, yeah, you maythink to the problem, but
they're, those are symptoms.
The pain that they'reexperiencing is a symptom.
And there's a greater problemthat's causing that.
So when you look at it in thislight, the pain and the pose
pain and poses are exactly thesame thing.
So start treating them all asthe same thing.
You can start to place in all,in any kind of, whether it's
(12:56):
pain, whether it's a yoga poseor some kind of dynamic movement
also too, if you're looking at arunner and their stride is off.
Same thing, symptom.
What's the bigger problem that'scausing that.
So it's looking at things assymptoms versus problems and
understanding that's reallywhere you can start to gain.
A lot of wisdom and that's whatmakes you really valuable,
(13:18):
right?
Because now you can help peopleaddress problems.
And this is one thing that Istate too, that this is one
thing that I state to yogateachers.
All the time is to learn to.
Look at something from, fromlike a.
More of a symptomatic position,right?
(13:38):
So that way you can come up witha more, you can come up with an
accurate solution.
That solves the problem forgood.
And then all you have to getgood at.
And this, by the way is how youtransition into.
Creating a whole business aroundit or creating a coaching
program or creating an onlinecourse or something along these
lines.
(13:59):
Is you get really good atanalyzing and die.
Diagnosing one problem.
And understanding what's goingon in the body.
That process or that flow ofuncovering.
That is all generally the same.
It's not necessarily true thatthe solution will be the same.
But the process or the systemthat you go through to find
(14:20):
this.
The solution is the same, right?
So if you have knee pain or youhave something along those lines
or shoulder pain, and you getreally good at that, you realize
there's a whole system of checksand balances in the body.
I'm going to go through.
If there's something wrong withthe shoulder, that something
wrong with the knee.
Something to think aboutsomething.
To really think about is getbetter at reading bodies.
If you can get better at readingbodies, it is.
(14:42):
It is the most high value skillthat you can develop as a yoga
teacher, get better at readingbodies because getting better
and learning to accurately andconfidently read bodies is what
opens up the door to be able towork with clients one-on-one
like very effectively withclients one-on-one and put
together programs for them.
Create coaching programs createthese kinds of things.
(15:05):
And that's what helps you.
To then further that it's one ofthe best skills to advance your
career.
Is learning to read bodiesbetter.
Your career will start to go up.
You'll have you'll gain a lotmore authority.
By doing that.
And it opens up the doors toother areas for you other than
just teaching yoga classes.
So thought of the day.
(15:27):
Thought of the day there,something to think about.
If you wanted to join us.
If you're interested, I shouldsay in joining us.
In body breakthrough and youwant to learn, you want to go
through an entire anatomicalprocess of your body.
We go through a rigorous, weapply it by the way.
What I talked about that sameframework of diagnosing bodies
is the same.
(15:47):
Framework that I apply to newclients and students when
they're learning presshandstands as well.
Let's look at all the thingsthat are wrong.
Let's look at all this.
Let's look at all the symptoms.
And then let's address thegreater problems.
And that's how you get to yourpress handstand.
Same fundamental thing.
I actually, strangely enough.
That same process that I used todo to learn when I was teaching.
(16:11):
When I first started teachingand writing things down on
notebooks is the same process,just on a much larger scale that
I apply to.
Going through and analyzing anentire body when it comes to
press handstand.
And if you are interested inwanting to start start like an
online business and build a.
Build a coaching program.
(16:32):
Online.
There are some options there.
I'll put the links in the shownotes.
There's a couple of things andthere's two levels.
If you're more of a beginner.
We have something different foryou.
And if you're already started,you're more established.
You know what you want to teach.
You already know what you wantto teach?
You have a skill set, or maybeeven like an online presence
already.
We have a mastermind that youcan join that kind of walks you
(16:52):
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So that's all I've got for youon today's show.
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So have a good rest of your day.
(17:13):
I will talk to you soon.
So as a yoga teacher, one of themost high value skills that you
(00:04):
can learn to develop foryourself.
Is moving beyond teaching theposes and teaching the asanas
and reciting the general cuesand learning how to read bodies.
And so that's what today's showis all about, is talking about
how to get better at readingbodies.
And so first off, what does thatmean?
(00:24):
To be able to accurately read abody.
And what does that look like?
So a lot of times you'll see in,in yoga when you're teaching and
you're practicing or you'repracticing and other people like
in the room, You'll see thingsgoing wrong with them, right?
And a lot of people, and these,this reading bodies are what are
(00:45):
called second level corrections.
And first level corrections Ishould say are.
When you see people in the roompracticing, and they're there
doing whatever they're trainingtheir practice, their pose,
their side angle, and they'redoing something wrong, right?
And it just looks wrong.
Like their knee is buckling in,or maybe their hip is like all
cranked out in warrior two orwhatever it is, or their hip is
all twisted and dancer pose.
(01:06):
Whatever that is.
First level correction.
Is just, okay.
Your hip is up.
Move your hip down.
Okay.
Your foot is turned in, turnyour foot out or face your toes
forward, whatever it is or your.
Your shoulders collapsing down,pull it back out.
So it stacks over the oppositeshoulder, right?
Those are first levelcorrections and those are first
(01:26):
level cues.
Now what you really want to getgood at?
Is learning to read.
What's actually going on in thebody, the deeper level.
So if you see someone whorepeatedly, because here's the
thing about, here's the thingabout the human body.
That's very important tounderstand.
(01:47):
Is that if you see someone whois routinely.
In a pose wrong, for example, ortheir hip is always like off in
some way or their arm is alwaysin the wrong location in some
way, or their shoulders alwaysslouched.
You can give them a cue.
And in the short term, they cansnap out of it and then they can
ply.
They can listen to you andthey're like, oh, I better pull
(02:08):
this back.
And so in the short-term theycan readjust themselves to get
into that position or whateverthat is.
But in the longterm.
Their body is just going to wantto go back to that natural shape
that it's resting in.
And that shape is that is thevisual shape that you notice.
When you are, you're going tocorrect them, right?
It's oh, I see their shoulderscompletely collapsed inward.
(02:30):
So let me give them thatcorrection, but it's going to
keep going back to that.
And one cue and one correctionof them moving their shoulder
back as they have a split secondreminder.
Isn't really going to actuallysolve the PR the deeper problem
as to why the shoulder's goingin to begin with.
And so this is what, this is theskill.
That comes with learning how toread bodies.
(02:52):
And so this is what I actuallydid when I first started
teaching, when I was trying toget better at just looking at
what's in front of me andassessing.
The bodies that were in front ofme was.
I would look and I would thinkin class and I would see when
people would do things wrong.
And.
I would keep a notebook or Iwould keep like a mental note.
(03:14):
And then after class I wouldwrite down the I would write
down.
What I saw going on.
And then I would go back and Iwould cross verify it.
With, I would look at, I had allsorts of different anatomy books
and whatnot.
And I would try to make areference as to what
anatomically was going on behindthe scenes or underneath the
(03:37):
surface that was causing theirshoulder to buckle in or their
hip to stick out in a funky wayor their need to look strange or
for whatever that was.
I would just make.
Little like notes in a notebook.
And this was back in.
I don't know, maybe maybe 15years or so.
Go maybe.
This was around the time.
(03:58):
My point is this around the timebefore, like Google docs was big
and And you had all thesedifferent anatomy, naps apps.
So you had to go back and youhad to look through things like
through, you had to actually golook in a book.
And find stuff and.
I believe I used I really likedthe book.
The complete anatomy of hot toyoga was one of the books.
It was a really good.
And, I'd write things down.
I still wrote them down in anotebook.
(04:19):
Like I didn't use like virtualpaper on my iPad.
Like I do today.
And all the different anatomyapp apps that I have.
So I used to make note, so Icould understand the second
level corrections and so that Icould look at someone.
And I could say to them if theirspine is always rounded in this
position or their shouldersalways doing this.
I could present to them,obviously not all in the middle
(04:41):
of teaching.
But you can present to them.
The.
The level of the second level ofcorrection oh, by the way, did
you realize that your body isdoing this or your shoulders
doing this?
Because your QL on this side istight and that's actually
causing your pelvis to tiltupward and it's creating this
(05:02):
torque in this pose and thenyour arm slants in the wrong
direction.
That's an example of reading thebody.
That's a second level cue.
And what you should do iswhenever.
And something else you shouldmake note of is that when you
are teaching.
Or you're giving in a classroomsetting, say like a first level
correction, move your shoulderback, move your hip back.
(05:23):
This, and this.
In your head, you wanted themverify that on your own
afterwards.
And then say, what is causing itor why is their shoulder, why is
their shoulder doing that?
Or why is their hip doing that?
And then that becomes yourhomework.
That's the homework in your headthat you go through.
(05:44):
And then you say to yourself,okay, I'm going to go.
I'm going to go back and I'mgoing to make a note of all of
my cues or I'm in make a note ofthe first level cues.
And then I'm going to then goback on my own time and start to
learn.
What the second level Q thereis.
Right?
Which is, let me understand.
(06:04):
The what and the why behind.
The Q that I gave.
So you start to then makedifferent correlations in the
body as to.
Why things go wrong and what it,what is actually at the surface,
right?
The surface level.
Of it.
So you see like a lot, like youcan see a lot of different
things that happened in a lot ofstress, like strange variations
(06:28):
of things, but you also start topick up patterns, right?
You notice patterns.
For example, and this is wherethis is ultimately what leads
you into then being able to workwith more clients effectively.
Is by diagnosis being, beingable to diagnose what's going on
at a deeper level and thenarticulate that to them and
that, and fun fact, by the way,doing this on my own.
(06:52):
Was what ultimately led me tocreating an online business
because when I started it wasjust the blog and I wanted to, I
wanted a place where I couldshare these deeper level
corrections or these deeper.
The second level queues.
To get good at reading body,right?
For example, you'll see a lot ofpeople and in very simple,
(07:12):
right?
Like sometimes you'll see a lotof great examples of this as
you'll see in a yoga class alot, at anterior tilt, right?
You'll see at hip that's tilted,right?
So anterior tilt, the front ofthe hip goes forward.
The back of the hip goes up.
And then you've got this littlespinal compression as a result
of the back part of your pelvisgoing up and you'll hear yoga
teachers say.
(07:33):
Drop your back hip or somethingor level your pelvis or
something like that, or liftyour front.
Lift your front hip frontal hippoints up.
Those are a lot of general cues,right?
Those are first level cues.
And in the moment they'rehelpful to shed awareness for
the practitioner.
But then why are they doingthat?
Why does their body want todefault?
To that right.
And.
Part of it is because like, whenI see that, and it's not always
(07:55):
this, but I see this a lot.
I work with a lot of people withthe TVA and the core.
Oftentimes someone has a habitof their core, not engaging, say
in a standing pose.
So their QL muscles, the musclesin the back that attached the
top of the pelvis to the bottomof the rib cage.
They then start to work likecore muscles and they tighten
(08:17):
right.
They tighten and they shorten.
And because the bottom of the QLattaches to the top of the
pelvis.
Oftentimes when that muscleshortens your body has two
choices.
The muscle will either pull therib cage down or the Pell, the
back of the pelvis back up.
And oftentimes it's easier ifthe QL is a little bit tied, it
tends to pull the pelvis up.
(08:38):
And that's what over time startsto tell.
That you're the pelvis into ananteriorly tilted position.
So then the deeper level aswell, what's the cue is to, get
your hips level or to lift yourfrontal hip points or drop.
Your backup points.
But the second level and thereason why that's happening.
(08:59):
The reason why that's happeningis because they have QL muscles
that are engaging in place ofthe TVA.
So the bigger correction, thelong term.
Solution is to learn, to engagethe core properly so that you
can use it in standing poses.
And then by default, you can getyour QL muscles.
Two, you can get your QL musclesthen to release, right?
(09:20):
Because well, not to get too indepth here on this specific
episode for this, but guess whathappens?
Why do people have tight QLC?
The QL is, are tight because.
They're working like prime,they're working as hard as a
primary stabilizing musclebecause the primary stabilizing
muscles aren't working.
So of course they get tight andthey get stressed and they get
tight.
(09:41):
When the bigger muscles startworking that muscle shortens,
right?
Shortens it lengthens becauseit's no longer being overworked.
You gain a lot of mobility bysimply balancing your body.
That's one of the.
One of the most, I thinkprofound moments students have
in my core and bodybreakthrough, they have is a lot
of times when you see people whoare, have tight bodies.
(10:03):
They think it's a mobilitything, but it's not, it's just a
simple, it's just the simplefact that their body's
imbalanced.
So you've got muscles that areworking in ways that shouldn't,
that they shouldn't be workingor overworking or over stress
and they get tight.
So if you balance your body, youcan actually regain mobility by
effectively resetting yourmuscles without even stretching.
So those are things to thinkabout where those are real good.
(10:27):
Things just learn and you haveto practice, you have to build
that muscle.
And it's understanding the it'sreally understanding that the
second level of queuing and thedepth as to why.
Which is oftentimes we see aproblem.
And we're quick to just label itas the problem.
That's the problem.
Their hip is out, but actuallyit's not really the problem.
(10:48):
That's just the symptom of abigger problem that's causing
their body to repeatedly create.
To do that in that pose orwhatever that is, then you start
to look at it and you start to.
Just go back.
And troubleshoot.
And the more you do this, themore you start to learn, do you
understand the depth ofconnections within the body?
And that's the essence.
Of really teaching yoga.
(11:08):
And that's the essence of reallygetting into it is you have to
move beyond the post-its right.
Just move beyond them.
That's.
Really, if you want to separateyourself and become a great yoga
teacher and extraordinary yogateachers, you just learn to read
bodies.
Because most, these days arejust reciting cues and they know
the poses and the names and,they try to recite Sanskrit and,
(11:29):
but that doesn't really doanything right.
And most people, ultimately,they don't want a short-term
correction.
They want a longterm fix, but ifthey knew what the problem was,
they would be able to fix it alot easier, but they don't.
That's why they don't have.
A that's why they, that's whytheir body stuck like that.
So you then go and you startlearning how to do this.
(11:50):
And you start to develop thatskillset.
You will become more valuable.
You'll be able to look at peopleand be able to accurately
diagnose what's going on.
You'll be able to look at backpain way easier and people
you'll be able to look atshoulder, neck pain, knee pain,
hip pain.
You'll be able to look andyou'll be able to say what is
causing that?
What's what is the type, what isactually going on here?
(12:13):
And.
When you think about it, I liketo take those individual points
like that.
Like when you talk about backpain, are you talking about knee
pain?
That's no different than oppose.
In that like low this is goingwrong and extended side angle.
That's the prop.
The problem.
If the hip is doing some strangething and extended side angle,
That's the symptom.
What's the bigger problem.
(12:33):
Just like back pain, just likeknee pain.
Those are just, yeah, you maythink to the problem, but
they're, those are symptoms.
The pain that they'reexperiencing is a symptom.
And there's a greater problemthat's causing that.
So when you look at it in thislight, the pain and the pose
pain and poses are exactly thesame thing.
So start treating them all asthe same thing.
You can start to place in all,in any kind of, whether it's
(12:56):
pain, whether it's a yoga poseor some kind of dynamic movement
also too, if you're looking at arunner and their stride is off.
Same thing, symptom.
What's the bigger problem that'scausing that.
So it's looking at things assymptoms versus problems and
understanding that's reallywhere you can start to gain.
A lot of wisdom and that's whatmakes you really valuable,
(13:18):
right?
Because now you can help peopleaddress problems.
And this is one thing that Istate too, that this is one
thing that I state to yogateachers.
All the time is to learn to.
Look at something from, fromlike a.
More of a symptomatic position,right?
(13:38):
So that way you can come up witha more, you can come up with an
accurate solution.
That solves the problem forgood.
And then all you have to getgood at.
And this, by the way is how youtransition into.
Creating a whole business aroundit or creating a coaching
program or creating an onlinecourse or something along these
lines.
(13:59):
Is you get really good atanalyzing and die.
Diagnosing one problem.
And understanding what's goingon in the body.
That process or that flow ofuncovering.
That is all generally the same.
It's not necessarily true thatthe solution will be the same.
But the process or the systemthat you go through to find
(14:20):
this.
The solution is the same, right?
So if you have knee pain or youhave something along those lines
or shoulder pain, and you getreally good at that, you realize
there's a whole system of checksand balances in the body.
I'm going to go through.
If there's something wrong withthe shoulder, that something
wrong with the knee.
Something to think aboutsomething.
To really think about is getbetter at reading bodies.
If you can get better at readingbodies, it is.
(14:42):
It is the most high value skillthat you can develop as a yoga
teacher, get better at readingbodies because getting better
and learning to accurately andconfidently read bodies is what
opens up the door to be able towork with clients one-on-one
like very effectively withclients one-on-one and put
together programs for them.
Create coaching programs createthese kinds of things.
(15:05):
And that's what helps you.
To then further that it's one ofthe best skills to advance your
career.
Is learning to read bodiesbetter.
Your career will start to go up.
You'll have you'll gain a lotmore authority.
By doing that.
And it opens up the doors toother areas for you other than
just teaching yoga classes.
So thought of the day.
(15:27):
Thought of the day there,something to think about.
If you wanted to join us.
If you're interested, I shouldsay in joining us.
In body breakthrough and youwant to learn, you want to go
through an entire anatomicalprocess of your body.
We go through a rigorous, weapply it by the way.
What I talked about that sameframework of diagnosing bodies
is the same.
(15:47):
Framework that I apply to newclients and students when
they're learning presshandstands as well.
Let's look at all the thingsthat are wrong.
Let's look at all this.
Let's look at all the symptoms.
And then let's address thegreater problems.
And that's how you get to yourpress handstand.
Same fundamental thing.
I actually, strangely enough.
That same process that I used todo to learn when I was teaching.
(16:11):
When I first started teachingand writing things down on
notebooks is the same process,just on a much larger scale that
I apply to.
Going through and analyzing anentire body when it comes to
press handstand.
And if you are interested inwanting to start start like an
online business and build a.
Build a coaching program.
(16:32):
Online.
There are some options there.
I'll put the links in the shownotes.
There's a couple of things andthere's two levels.
If you're more of a beginner.
We have something different foryou.
And if you're already started,you're more established.
You know what you want to teach.
You already know what you wantto teach?
You have a skill set, or maybeeven like an online presence
already.
We have a mastermind that youcan join that kind of walks you
(16:52):
through, setting up the funnels,building the templates, how to
make sales, et cetera, etcetera, that kind of thing.
So that's all I've got for youon today's show.
If you have any questions or.
You learn something from thistag me in a story on Instagram
@brianaganad, you can tag methere and let me know what you
learned.
Or if you have a question, justshoot it over to me and let me
know and I'll get to it as soonas I can.
So have a good rest of your day.
(17:13):
I will talk to you soon.
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