I don’t think I realized what I was getting into when I started yoga teacher training. I thought I’d just learn proper pose alignment, how to say the sanskrit name of the pose and how to teach that to others. This is probably all I would have learned if I had taken the easy fast track route, but it is in my nature to make things more difficult for myself. Yeah, I know I learn more this way.
This weekend of teacher training was filled with so many “Aha” moments. I’m learning a lot about anatomy and this weekend I learned a lot about our hips and pelvic bones. Human anatomy is not new to me. I had to take anatomy and physiology in under-grad. At the time, I was focused on just memorizing the structures. I never really thought about why our bones and muscles are shaped and placed in specific ways, which is stupid.
For example, raise your hand if you tuck your tail bone under while standing (or sitting). Yeah, we all do it. When we tuck our tail bones, we shrink the holes formed by our sacrum and pubic bones where the sciatic nerve passes. We put pressure on the nerve and surrounding blood vessels. No wonder 90% of Americans have lower back pain.
Plus, after sitting on the floor practically all weekend, sitting in a real chair hurts. I’m going to have to retrain my brain about a lot things.
And it sounds like you’ll retrain you butt, too!
Cindy, this is really neat. Keep on telling us some of the stuff you’re learning.
Yes, yes, be sure to share with us.
I learned in my Furniture Design class about the Ischia-thingies in our pelvic bone (yeah, real scientific of me, I know), and why we NEED to fidgit somewhat in order to be comfortable. It’s all about making sure you design chairs that are somewhat firm and not so soft that fidgeting (thus relieving pressure) does no good. Also, that the palms of your hands, soles of your feet, and butt have no major arteries or nerve endings, so that you can put pressure on them for extended periods of time (such as sitting or standing) w/o going all tingly or clotting your veins.
You need to come train AM on how to hold his butt.
Off the subject:
Happy Valentine’s Day!!!
Did you see that really cute Beagle win the Westminster?
I dont know much about Yoga but I did some computer work for a Yoga teacher and she seemed very content. I once worked while she was teaching. Almost got interested enough to check it out but the voices from my Churchgoing past said “stay away. Its the devil”
That was meant with total sarcasm
I would do almost anything to help with lower back pain. I have it real bad
Welcome Spiritbear and no offense taken. I’ll let you know when you’ve pissed me off (Ha!).
Our first class in yoga teacher training was about yoga and religion. Yoga is not a religion. My teacher is a very religious person. They even home school their child for religious reasons. We were told that if some one in our class is uncomfortable because of their religion, we should advise them to find a yoga teacher with a similar religious background to practice with. They even offer a special training course for “Christian yoga”.