Smart yogi proprioceptive elements

What you'll learn

Smart yogi proprioceptive elements includes the following groups of exercises:

Weight shifting and grounding

• Weight shifting, a way to improve balance and to notice your contact with the earth
• Simple exercises for activating your foundation.
• Exercises for "touch" awareness to improve sensitivity to contact

Ribcage awareness

• Ribcage awareness exercises
• Improve control of all four corners of your ribcage

Belly control

• Belly control
• Improve transverse abdominis and respiratory diaphragm control
• Learn and improve basic breathing patterns

Hip Bone control

• Hip bone control
• Improve control the long hip muscles

Basic spinal awareness

• Learn to feel the three main sections of your spine
• Improve balance of the left and right sides of your spine

Shoulder Awareness

• Improve shoulder blade and collar bone awareness and control
• Improve shoulder rotational control

Shin, foot and knee awareness and control

• Improve awareness of your shins, knees and feet
• Improve knee control and foot control

Basic thigh control

• Learn to feel and control your quads, hamstrings, hip flexors
• Learn the basics of muscle control

Chair exercises

• Learn how to overcome differences between some standing and seated exercises
• Learn to feel and control inner and outer thighs.
• Exercises for active twisting

What's in the package

Smart yogi PE includes 164 videos, ranging in length from just under a minute to about 5 minutes.

Each video covers a single exercise. The exercises are sequentially organized with some exercises building upon previous exercises. The exercises are also easy to learn and remember, particularly if you work at learning the exercises a few at a time.

Rather than rushing through the exercises, take your time to learn them and in the process learn to feel your body. You can then do the exercises anywhere, which means that you can do them without having to rely on the videos.

How many exercises per day?

You can focus on between 1 to 3 exercises per day, practicing when you have the time.

Each exercise helps you to feel your body, and, once you can feel that body part, it's like learning to ride a bike, difficult to forget. That being said, you may find that some exercises you need to practice more than others.

Pick and choose the exercises you need the most

Once you've learned and practiced all of the exercises, you'll have a better feel for your body. You'll then be able to use that awareness in anything that you do. They can provide the framework for learning more advanced proprioceptive practices, or they can serve as a daily practice to help keep you tuned in to your body, and to help keep your body tuned.

Video format

Videos are in mp4 format and are downloadable (they can also be streamed using the gumroad app).

Become a smart yogi

This series of videos won't make you a master of your own body, but they are designed to help get you on that path.

The muscle control and proprioception workshop exercises are designed to help you become smarter in your own body by learning to better feel it and control it.

This is something that you can carry into all aspects of your life.

Become More Present

A focus on feeling your body (and controlling it) is a simple way of becoming more present. Rather than doing lots of different poses, one after the other, to turn your thinking mind of, here you can focus on the creating sensations within your body (by turning muscles on and off) to help turn of incessant thinking.

You could think of this as a type of conscious movement because each action, each movement is clearly defined. As a result, you can focus on doing it.

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