Yoga Teachers And The Need To Enhance Your Knowledge Base
Wishing to increase your yoga anatomy and physiology understanding as a yoga teacher? Or perhaps you are asking what exactly the benefit is to increasing your knowledge of yoga anatomy.
Firstly as a yoga teacher if you enhance your knowledge of anatomy and physiology it will deepen your understanding and connection to the human body. A yoga teacher will be able to integrate this information into their yoga teaching if this is learnt from a yogic perspective.
Integrating yoga anatomy and physiology knowledge into your yoga teaching will mean that you will be able to teach not only more content about each yogic asana but your knowledge basis will be deeper. The good thing about this is that all of this integrated knowledge can then be transmitted to students in class who have the benefit of the increase in this knowledge.
Is there anything else to be obtained from the further study of yoga anatomy and physiology? A deeper understanding of asana alignment for a start.
Much of the information within the physiology and anatomy for yoga is related to the musculoskeletal systems. This is the study of all the bones and muscles within the human body. In particular where each bone and muscle live, where it starts and attaches and the function of each.
Knowing the musculoskeletal knowledge of the human body system can work wonders for the understanding of asana alignment. And a big part of asana yoga is correct alignment. All the benefits of the asana can be assimilated when there is correct alignment. Big improvements can be made in ones yoga practice with only a small correct adjustment.
Yoga anatomy and physiology is taught within yoga teacher training courses, but often it is brief or in time the yoga teacher forgets this information. Here is where a revision course can be most useful. Otherwise there are dvds and books to reinforce ones yoga anatomy and physiology.
In the final analysis, expanding your knowledge base as a yoga teacher facilitates a better class for your students. A better class experience means better retention rate of students. A better retention rate of students can only be a good thing for your yoga business.
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