Ep 134: How A Student's Neutral Alignment Should Affect The Cues You Use
About this episode
The episode discusses how neutral alignment varies among students and the implications for cueing in yoga instruction.
Most of us inherited our cueing vocabulary from the teachers who trained us, and many of those cues have been repeated with so much confidence and so often that they feel like they're factually and anatomically correct. But when you actually examine the anatomy underneath the cues, a different picture begins to emerge. Neutral alignment is different in every student and is not a single position that every body can, or should, achieve. It is individual, shaped by each student's unique skeletal...
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