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This week I elaborated on my approach to balance and how I scale it & develop it in my own body, my students, & my patients ⠀ TL:DR of the last two weeks, my approach is: 💀Mechanistic in getting the joints to move well 🧠Neurologic for increases in potentiation - more sensory input means better motor output, as well as differentiation for more movement opportunities 👀Vestibular/Ocular in addressing the different sub systems and attempting to isolate them to bolster them ⠀ Most people don’t need to deep dive into all that complex information haha. It’s also not the only way, nor is one way always the best way (every body is different and responds differently to each approach/technique) ⠀ Today I’d like to hear what you do that helps people balance better. Or how you scale - progress/regress - balancing 🤔 ⠀ The optional bonus question is how you may approach someone who struggles with balance 😨 ⠀ I’m really excited for what you all share today. I think this is going to be an incredible resource and hopefully offer a cornucopia of approaches, so we can all see that it’s never purely one way! #whatworksformemaynotworkforyou ⠀ FYI: Next week I’ll be talking a lot about arches in the foot - how to activate them, strengthen them, & challenge them. If you’ve been following along and working on your mobility (week 1) and balance (week 2) it’s going to be AWESOME 🤩 ⠀ #wegrowtogether #balancetraining #betterbalance #balanceforbetter

When it comes to balancing I believe we all make a lot of assumptions 🤔 ⠀ Every time you lift a leg up, you likely just assume it can stay there and you’re able to maintain your balance. It’s only after an injury 🤕 or when something compromises our balance do we ever start to think about it ⠀ Not many people know how to scale it too. The fix isn’t quite as simple as just lifting your leg up again 😨 ⠀ You have to meet yourself where you’re at and remember that your balance can fluctuate and change every day #behumble ⠀ So how do we scale it to find better success and also so that we are able to progress? 🧐 ⠀ It comes down to your stance & also the awareness you have of your systems of balance 🤓 ⠀ I look at balance now through the vestibular system: what’s your body positioning telling you and what happens when you shut your eyes 😵 ⠀ Progress for me is therefore dictated by how comfortable you can be in each base position 👉🏻Can you stay in the position for 30 seconds with relative ease & steadiness? 👉🏻👉🏻If yes, can you close your eyes and stay there for 30 seconds? 👉🏻👉🏻👉🏻If yes, lets make it more interesting and move to the next position ⠀ If no, sit in that position - practice & explore it diligently until you can. While they train that position the I also have people practice all the cool stuff I shared last week so there’s an increase & a steady stream of high quality information coming from their nerves and giving their 🧠s the best opportunity to balance well 💪🏻 ⠀ I’ll talk more about this as the week progresses. This week will largely be about how to scale balance and draw more awareness to how you can overcome gravity 🤓 #balance #balancebasics #howtobalance #yogabalance

So last week something amazing happened 🤩 my favorite article Human First, Yogi Second was released in Spanish! ⠀ It’s been a goal of mine to try and get more of my work available to non-english speakers, and I’m beyond stoked to have such an amazing team at @shutupandyoga and the amazing @jericozambrano who are able to make that dream a reality 🙏🏻 ⠀ (I’m going to try this without doing google translate) Pardoneme mi terriblé espanol ⠀ Muchas gracias desde lo más profundo de mi corazón. 🙏🏻 I’m so thankful that these words can reach a new audience and help serve the global yoga community. My Spanish is quite limited to asking about where the bathroom is and also very doctor like questions such as “¿Tienes dolor aqui?” Haha. So glad I have others who can help me 🙏🏻🙏🏻 ⠀ Check out the article 👀 on the website! Have a great rest of your weekend everyone 🤙🏻 ⠀ Posted @withregram • @shutupandyoga 🎉 We published our first article in Spanish 🇪🇸: a translation of Human First, Yogi Second by Dr. Garrett Neill @drgarrettneill ⠀ 🎉Hoy publicamos nuestro primer artículo en español 🇪🇸: una traducción de Human First, Yogi Second de Dr. Garrett Neill por Jericó Zambrano @jericozambrano 😍 ⠀ 🤔Empezamos con estas preguntas: ¿Están las posturas de Yoga realmente al servicio de nuestros cuerpos? Para un ser humano moderno, ¿sigue siendo apropiada la práctica física del yoga? ⠀ 🙋‍♂️Mi opinión: el Yoga no es perfecto. La parte de la práctica referida a la atención plena del yoga es impecable, pero la práctica física (también conocida como asana) simplemente no encaja con la anatomía humana moderna. Antes de que protestes, escúchame. ⠀ 🔥Encuéntrate con las personas donde ellxs están para llevarlxs donde quieras que vayan. ⠀ 👣En otras palabras, mirémonos a nosotrxs mismos como lxs humanxs modernxs que somos antes de tratar de forzar a nuestros cuerpos a hacer cosas que no son sanas para nosotrxs. ⠀ 😍Lée el artículo Humano primero, yogui segundo en shutupandyoga.com! 👉 LINK IN BIO ⠀ 🖊 Editado por @ebsnotebook —- #yogaanatomy #modernyoga #yogastudent #yogi #functionaltraining #functionalyoga #functionalmovement

Sometimes you incorporate something you learned and found value in but if falls short when you implement it into class because it doesn’t fit the expectations of your students ☹️ ⠀ So today’s question is largely for the folks that maybe need a little bit of help or encouragement to step outside of the traditional box and do some cool shit 😆 ⠀ If you could take a moment today to say how you implement things that are a bit strange & foreign to the movement practice you teach that would be awesome! How do you get your students interested in it? 🤔 ⠀ I’ll share first: I very often bring some weird shizz to the classes I teach. Thankfully my students expect it now (so lesson 1: be consistent!). I also am quite frank and will say let’s do something weird and see if that helps with (insert pose/exercise here) ⠀ Appealing to people’s inner curiosity and scientist tends to help a lot too. Do a before and after, often that really helps them establish value behind the detour - and may even encourage them to keep coming back 😉 ⠀ Now your turn! Thanks for sharing, learning, & fostering a community where #wegrowtogether 🙏🏻

Never neglect your feet folks 🦶🏻 ⠀ They are quite an amazing and powerful structure but I’m guessing you don’t do much in prepping or moving them before anything 🙈 ⠀ Most of us just assume we can balance without really needing to prep our feet and it probably works (but in a 💩 way - not the way you’re truly capable) ⠀ So over the course of the next 4ish weeks I’ll be sharing a bunch of cool videos & exercises on balance and in the hopes that you’ll never neglect your feet again 🙌🏻 ⠀ Mobility is the first topic - it’s the foundation of creating usable workspace in your joints and also active movements create new neural pathways and more opportunities of movement too. ⠀ Definitely stay tuned and maybe turn post notifications on too (my social media sabbatical likely messed up the algorithms 🤷🏼‍♂️) ⠀ This knowledge journey is going to be so much fun too. I guarantee there will be some 🤯 mind blowing info and hopefully make your balance rock steady 💪🏻 #anatomy #ankleanatomy #yogaanatomy #techniquetidbit

Taking serious pictures is lame 😜 ⠀ Context: this is right after I got to lead the City of Newport Beach’s Utilities department through a mobility routine. Go #FRC & #kinstretch 🙌🏻 Such a cool experience especially in the mini seminar I lead on how mobility routines are important to mitigate work place injuries 👨🏼‍⚕️ ⠀ Love my city and I love teaching & aiding people in the always ongoing quest to #makeshitworknice ⠀ This pic is also a reminder of how I always forget to take pics and record all the cool stuff I do 🤷🏼‍♂️ ⠀ I’m also back from my social media sabbatical (it was so amazing to take a few weeks off from my screen). ⠀ Tomorrow we’ll kick off a really really cool 4 week series on balance! 🤓

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