L01 / 7 MIN, AT YOUR PACE
Find your bearings
Use location words without confusing them with movements.
Open lesson →Foundations / The map
What would you like
to understand today?
You do not need to memorize everything at once. These words will meet you again in the poses.
L02 / 6 MIN, AT YOUR PACE
See the three planes
Connect a plane to a demonstrated movement, rather than to the page orientation.
Open lesson →L03 / 8 MIN, AT YOUR PACE
Name the movement
Distinguish flexion, extension, abduction, adduction and rotation.
Open lesson →L04 / 8 MIN, AT YOUR PACE
From the ground up
Separate ankle motion, foot inversion/eversion and knee motion.
Open lesson →L05 / 9 MIN, AT YOUR PACE
Hips and pelvis: two different questions
Distinguish hip flexion from pelvic tilt and identify a class cue as a cue.
Open lesson →L06 / 9 MIN, AT YOUR PACE
Shoulder blades are not the same as shoulders
Observe arm-to-trunk motion separately from shoulder-blade motion on the rib cage.
Open lesson →L07 / 6 MIN, AT YOUR PACE
Forearms, wrists and hands
Distinguish forearm rotation from bending at the wrist.
Open lesson →L08 / 6 MIN, AT YOUR PACE
Spine, neck and head
Separate bending, turning and translating the head relative to the trunk.
Open lesson →L09 / 7 MIN, AT YOUR PACE
Shorten, lengthen, hold
Distinguish the three contraction terms using one named muscle and one known load.
Open lesson →L10 / 8 MIN, AT YOUR PACE
Describe a pose, not a perfect body
Use the lesson vocabulary to write an observation, a cue and an open question.
Open lesson →L11 / 7 MIN, AT YOUR PACE
Breathing is a change of shape
Describe an inhale and an exhale as changes in the shape of the torso.
Open lesson →L12 / 7 MIN, AT YOUR PACE
Prana and apana: begin with the exhale
Use prana and apana to describe the two halves of a breath cycle.
Open lesson →L13 / 7 MIN, AT YOUR PACE
Three diaphragms and the bandhas
Locate the pelvic, respiratory and vocal diaphragms and say what their tone does.
Open lesson →L14 / 7 MIN, AT YOUR PACE
Axial extension and the five spinal actions
Distinguish axial extension from flexion, extension, lateral flexion and rotation.
Open lesson →L15 / 7 MIN, AT YOUR PACE
Starting position and base of support
Classify a pose by where it begins and what carries the weight.
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