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Yoga Soup Teacher Training Video 1 Intro to Tadasana and Urdhva Hastasana in Tadasana

CA Yoga · 8:17

In this practice

Key teachings

  • Precision in alignment for foundational poses
  • Understanding the difference between Tadasana and Samasthiti
  • Importance of engaging specific muscle groups (e.g., inner thighs, core)
  • Preventing common misalignments like locked knees or shrugged shoulders
  • Mindful breathing synchronized with movement

Ideal for

  • Yoga teacher trainees
  • Beginners seeking foundational knowledge
  • Practitioners refining basic standing poses
  • Individuals with limited shoulder mobility

Lesson

Instructions

Teacher Training Video for Weekend 1: Introduction and Tadasana

Steps

  • Tadasana (Mountain Pose) with detailed alignment cues
  • Samasthiti (Equal Standing Pose)
  • Urdhva Hastasana (Raised Hands Pose) with focus on shoulder and ribcage alignment
  • Use of yoga blocks for engagement
  • Use of straps for shoulder mobility

Benefits

  • Improved postural alignment and stability
  • Increased body awareness and muscle engagement
  • Reduced tension in the neck and shoulders
  • Prevention of injury through proper form
  • Enhanced understanding of foundational yoga principles

Transcript

identities you're treating I'm Cynthia and I'll be leading the teacher training portions of the post and if they already now was set up an app sometimes referred to as a life speak te which means the people sitting close to that's mentoring that does mounted folks Kendall is showing you this highway mrs. Mountain Pose to critical instructions for this pose would be to correct the spine from the perspective of the pelvis because she's waving her low back right now the main two instructions that I would give her the feet lengthen your tailbone down toward your heels either upper thighs a little straw or [Music] couple more cues that you can use in Tadasana classically include root down through the four corners of your feet notice that a lot of students not only in standing postures will rest there it's word in imposture one of the main ways to correct this is to simply asking your student to soften the front ribs downward while maintaining broadening across the shoulder heads in order to find a little more strength in cutoff so then you can always ask your students to take a block between their inner thighs and it's not firmer grip on the pockets just a folding of the block in order to engage the inner thighs up toward the pelvic floor very important to remind students not to lock out their news especially when they have a block because their legs are working a little bit harder so that the soft bend in your knees signal root down through the four corners of your feet allow your upper thigh balloons to drop slave in back and correct that by lengthening your tailbone toward your daughter soften your front floating ribs in and the top of your head return your cold all the way out feel a broad across your chest allow your eyes one modification for this pose will be to keep a soft bend in your knees especially for people who tend to push their kneecaps top and hit back set the backs of their leaves in this chapter we're going to be looking at the difference between Tadasana and somewhat czp and we're also going to take the clothes into Tita hot sauce met or heard about that which just means reaching your arms overhead so first and we'll bring our hands to her heart which is taught us Anna Mountain Pose the elbow monstrosity down shoulder heads are brought her some of GDP shall release certain enemies down ones like my body holds a story this might also be called animal control that same or equal standing pose for something to eat a lot of threats of the grapes to soften down draw your tail beautiful from there we'll work it into the teeth that much muscle as you inhale reach your arms out and all the way up allow your shoulder heads to stop it toward the earth and turn your other arm forward towards of the as you exhale release your socket on we'll do that again turn your palms out as you inhale reach your arms out and all the way over I notice that you can look up and if that's too much on their neck you can say anything forward you can also have your hands together if you have the mobility in your shoulders but you can also bring your hands armistice wide shoulder distance is why take a breath in to lift draw your tailbone into the recipe and as you want to scalp return your arms down alongside your body a lot of times we do reach our arms overhead our shoulders will hang up toward our errors one of the best ways to instruct the students not to do that because it will cause tension in the nakid what upper traps is to be given in some ICT heat or to awesome so the limit is that some of these already a little shrug you can instruct that to allow older ladies in the back of their body to move down to get wai across the front of the chest sometimes people say broadband process bones or broaden and perhaps your shoulder heads and we knew through your shoulder blades down your back it ordered not to press your ribcage forward remember to complement that obstruction with soften your front loading but it's slightly ting from there that the shoulder heads wide and soft turn your palms to face out and inhale reach your arms out and overhead let your shoulder heads from here top now believe in your ears same instructions of the floor move the bottom tips of your shoulder blades down your back and soften your front loading version you see how that fits our neck a little more space and if despite their best efforts for negative so a little bit scrunched it may just be a matter of releasing the hands away from each other and finding that shoulder-width apart so that she can finally actually distraction drawing the shoulders away from the ears bottom tips of the shoulder blades moving down her back and front loading rate of softened toward the back you can over exaggerate people use of a strap it's important it's really about compensation fees that Cynthia was talking about so if people are immediately take the arms out from the groups export work keep the knees slightly bent root down through the deep same principle sets in Tadasana and to be honest I invite you to stop before they start doing this just bring it over time they can build that mobility back into the more neutral and what do we do if the class is pretty and you're max there is an option when you reach your arms overhead rather than taking your arms out to the side you can't bring your works forward so we shall find thomas ET he runs alongside a nice even hill we might say if there's a body right next to consider bringing your arms forward as much space to your [Music] rinsing soften and torture money

Practice summary

Level
all levels
Duration
7 minutes
Equipment
yoga matyoga blockyoga strap
Target areas
feetlegspelvisspinecoreshouldersneckchest
Energy
balancing

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