Episode 95: Let The Practice Show You Yourself
In this episode, Alisha is sharing her conversation with Libby Hinsley on hyper-mobility, treating yoga as a celebration of the body and the importance of understanding Anatomy.
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Anatomy Bites
Yoga practitioner
Yoga therapist
PT
Interest in yoga started back at Guilford College
Teaches now at the Asheville Yoga Center
Took a yoga teacher training at the AYC just to deep her own practice.
Teaching a new workshop at the AYC on hyper mobility
Libby was always the example of more than normal mobility
Had two babies in the last 6 years, and got really sick
Has a genetic connective tissue disorder: Ehlers Mobile Syndrome hypermobile type (EDS)
Anatomy bites
When we understand the anatomy, it helps us let go of the things that aren’t important
Without the foundations and learning the variation of normal. There is a wide range of motion in the human form
Challenge to yoga teachers is to examine the things you typically say about a pose and making sure there is a good reason for it.
The body is one of our path ways of entry into the human experience.
Can we shift our focus away from getting something right and performance to inquiry to find out about ourselves
Yoga wants us to figure out who we really are so that we leave yoga practice being a better person
Get really clear on who am I, where do I end and someone else begins and how do I feel about this thing?Yoga can help us feel the quality of sensations that go along with feelings
All of my thoughts and feelings are physical sensations in my body
Are those actions in alignment with who I am?
The handstand could be a practice to go inward.
Being asked to approach our practice from an internal place.
An invitation to go and explore your own self
We have to have a dialog with our own experience
What’s the goal of your practice?
What purpose is your practice serving?
Guided more by our own values and our own heart
I want to lead people to their own heart
If we really go into the anatomy and understand the human body and how it moves we can trust in the resiliency of the of the body. We can get away from fragility and get into resiliency. The body will change. Coming out of a faster momentum-oriented practice. We have to move into our discomfort at a pace that is tolerable for our nervous system and it often takes longer than we think.
A different kind of paying attention. When we can move the paying attention to much more subtle layers it can get uncomfortable pretty quick.
Moment is easy, learning to control movement through a range is much more difficult.
Let the practice show you yourself.
All of our thoughts and our feelings are a physical practice. That is somatic, and yoga is a way to embody our feelings
When people come to PT for complicated chronic stuff. it’s never just structural, it can be fear response, habitual response, Social identities that play out in the body
The body is a reflection of how we’ve lived our entire life
We aren’t just taking care of bones and muscles we are taking care of a nervous system.
When we as yoga teachers read bodies, we are observing their entire life.
When we observe someone’s body we need to make sure we look with a loving gaze.
As a practitioner you get to go to yoga in this body.
Treat the yoga practice as a celebration of this body and all of the amazing things that we can do.
We are just here to have an experience on a mat and it’s through having this experience that change does happen, but it won’t happen if we force it.
Wants yoga to be a celebration of your own life.
What is my purpose and how do I want my life to be going?
Taking Lots of risks, just trusting, based on evidence, that I can take a step in the direction that I love, not waiting for the way to appear.
Book: We make the road by walking. Myles Horton
Making the road by walking.
To learn more about Libby’s work you can visit her websites here:
anatomybites.com/cues
anatomybites.com/hypermobility
https://www.libbyhinsley.com