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The Benefit Of Enhancing Your Yoga Anatomy For Yoga Teachers
Are you a yoga teacher and looking to enhance your yoga anatomy knowledge? You may be wondering what are the benefits of enhancing your yoga anatomy knowledge.
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? For starters, a deeper understanding of the alignment within each asana.
A lot of information on anatomy and physiology for yoga relates to the musculoskeletal system. What this means is studying all the muscles and bones of the human body. Where each muscle originates, where it attaches and what each muscles function is.
The understanding of asana alignment can be greatly enhanced by knowing the musculoskeletal anatomy and physiology. 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. A refresher course can come in useful here. Or to reinforce ones yoga anatomy and physiology information there are many dvd’s and books created specifically for yoga teachers.
Overall, as a yoga teacher, increasing your knowledge base helps provide an enhanced class for your students. An enhanced class experience for students leads to an increase in retention rates. A better retention rate of students can only be a good thing for your yoga business.