{"id":6316,"date":"2012-07-03T13:07:48","date_gmt":"2012-07-03T20:07:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=6316"},"modified":"2013-02-12T16:54:22","modified_gmt":"2013-02-12T23:54:22","slug":"a-handbook-for-yogasana-teachers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/a-handbook-for-yogasana-teachers\/","title":{"rendered":"A Handbook for Yogasana Teachers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This book is a tome of body science for yoga teachers weighing in over 1000 pages. I purchased it a few months ago. While I&#8217;ve skimmed the entire volume, I&#8217;ve spent the most time on the appendix related to balance in yoga postures.<\/p>\n<p>Most yoga instructors can tell you a handful of things that improve balance such as a gazing point, engaged muscles of the standing leg, and mental concentration. Mel Robin has written 80 pages on this subject. He covers gravitational effects on yoga postures; aspects of mechanical metastability; generating counter-torque when falling; balance sensors, and neural repatterning among many, many other topics.\u00a0This one section alone has changed the way I practice balancing asanas and how I teach them to my students.<\/p>\n<p>With the recent publication of William Broad&#8217;s controversial book <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1451641427\/ref=nosim\/?tag=cooltools-20\">The Science of Yoga: The Risks and the Rewards<\/a><\/em>\u00a0it&#8217;s more important than ever for yoga teachers to understand if and how science backs up claims related to the medical benefits of yoga. Robin&#8217;s book does just that. It looks at the science behind the asanas.<\/p>\n<p>I understand that he is working on his newest edition&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tome of yoga science<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6316"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6316"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10106,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6316\/revisions\/10106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}