Yoga Anatomy, Biomechanics, Muscle Control and Proprioception

Where anatomy looks at muscles and bones and how they connect, biomechanics looks at how those muscles and bones interact in a live body, in your body.

Learning muscle control and proprioception, you can directly experience the biomechanical forces within your own body, and so gain an even better understanding of how your body works. You can experience your own anatomy.

Anatomy, biomech, muscle control and proprioception Index

Yoga Anatomy
(Biomechanics is Built In)

• The Anatomical Position, You Don't Need it For Yoga Anatomy
• Drawing Anatomy To Better Understand It
• Experiencing Your Anatomy
• Joint Anatomy and Fluid Tensegrity
• How Muscle Activity Keeps Joints Lubricated
  
• Muscle Control Basics
• Movement and Postural Tensegrity, It's an Option
• Movement Freedom via Articulated Tensegrities
• Proprioception, a Side Effect of Muscle Control

Anatomy:
Shoulder, Elbow and Arm

• Elbow Joint Anatomy, (It allows Forearm Rotation
• Scapular Landmarks for Better Shoulder Awareness
• Pectoralis Minor and Arms Behind the Back positions
• Serratus Anterior and Arms Forwards or Upwards Actions
• Trapezius and Arm Overhead Positions
• Latissimus Dorsai, You Can Use them In Yoga Poses

Anatomy:
Torso and Spine

• Ribcage
• The Intercostal Muscles and Ribcage Mobility
• Better Ribcage Awareness: The Levator Costarum
• The Lumbar Multifidus (Psoas and QL interactions)
• Obliques and Intercostals: Improving Spinal Twists
• Improving Awareness of your Respiratory Diaphragm
• Serratus Posterior Inferior (and better Lat Control)
• Improving Spinal Column Awareness in 26 Parts
• Learning to Feel and Control your Spinal Erectors
• Activating the Transverse Abdominis in 3 Parts

Anatomy:
Low Back

• Low Back Stability, Maybe we should look at the hip
• The Psoas Muscle and Its Effect on the Lumbar Spine
• The Elements of the Thoracolumbar Fascia
• Psoas Anatomy, And Preventing Lumbar Shear
• Psoas Major Anatomy, The Kidneys and the 12th Ribs

Anatomy:
Pelvis, SI Joints

• Pubococcygeus, Fully Engaging the Pelvic Floor
• Pubococcygeus, controlling flatulance
• Resisting Sacroiliac Joint Shear in Forward Bends
• Muscles that Control the Sacroiliac Joint
• SI Joint Exercises: Nutation and Counternutation
• Sacrotuberous Ligament Tension and SI Joint Stability
• Muscles that Attach to (and work on) the Sacrum
• How the SI Joints Potentially Make the Pelvis Stronger
• Stabilizing both SI Joints in Nutation or Counternutation
• SI Joint Stability in Marichyasana.

Anatomy:
Hip and Thigh

• Using Bicycle Wheels To Understand Hip Joint Anatomy
• Gluteus Maximus, It works on the Hip, Knee and SI Joint
• Taking the Slack out of your Long Hip Flexor Muscles
• The Deep Hip Flexors
• Maintaining Space in the Hip Joint: Obturator Externus,
• Spreading the Sitting Bones with Obturator Internus
• Adductor Magnus long head: Neutralizing External Rotation

Knee Joint

• Hamstrings, Stabilizing the Knee or Rotating the Shin
• How the IT Band Can Stabilize Hip Bone or Tibia
• IT Band Knee Pain (How to Prevent it)
• Sartorius and Inner Knee Pain
• Knee Anatomy
• Stabilizing the Knee for Rotation And Bending

Anatomy:
Lower Leg

• The foot
• Tibialis Posterior
• Peroneus Longus
• Peroneus Brevis
• Tibialis Anterior

Esoteric Anatomy
(Meridians and Chakras)

• Large Intestine Meridian
• Lung Meridian
• Meridians
• Meridians and CHAKRAS
• Meridian Stretches
• Stomach Meridian