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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Teach People, Not Poses: Lessons in Yoga Anatomy and Functional Movement to Unlock Body Intelligence

Teach People, Not Poses: Lessons in Yoga Anatomy and Functional Movement to Unlock Body Intelligence

Richards, Mary
Robins, Lili
Lasater, Judith Hanson

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Health GeneralYoga

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ISBN10: 161180972X
ISBN13: 9781611809725
Publisher: Shambhala
Published: Aug 29 2023
Pages: 184
Weight: 0.74
Height: 0.55 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
​Honor your yoga students' unique practice with this essential guide to identifying and supporting healthy, safe movement for every body. Includes more than 80 exercises and 43 instructional drawings.

Teach People, Not Poses is the manual that yoga teachers and yoga therapists need to help their students step onto the mat on their own terms, comfortably and safely. Mary Richards, a yoga teacher, yoga therapist, and expert in kinesiology and anatomy, says that we leave too many people off the mat, due to overly aggressive pace, sequence, and ambition in asana. She offers advice, techniques, observations, practices, and sequences to give teachers and yoga therapists the tools they need to move beyond the popular ideas of should on the mat.

To safely guide others in asana, especially when people come to the mat for relief from residual effects of acute injuries, chronic pain, and repetitive strain, yoga teachers need to understand what is typical and atypical in terms of posture and movement. Richards offers teachers myriad exercises to address imbalances and strengthen, such as

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