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It’s Day 5 of the Monkey Bar Gym Intensive and it’s been a real eye opener on many fronts and great reinforcement on others.
The real eye opener was our focus on High Energy Yoga, otherwise known as Eischens Yoga. I have practiced this form of yoga before in my first Certified Natural Trainer Intensive at the Monkey Bar Gym 5 years ago, but I don’t think I really got the impact and influence of this particular form of yoga until this trip, when I saw pain relief in minutes and in my case (major pain relief).
This style works for people with different body types, including the too tight and too loose bodies. A person with tight muscles, without much flexibility, can come to this practice and gain freedom of movement. We work to balance the body and the body’s energy flow and this creates balance and a sense of ease (as opposed to efforting).
The other big difference is that we include partner work, the time for hands-on feedback. It goes along well with the general practice of the Monkey Bar Gym, in that we value working together and giving support to one another.Students partner up with each other to serve as a mirror in a pose and also to give proprioceptive feedback, using the principle of “where I push, you resist.” For example, in a standing pose, I will exert light pressure on the student’s shin so that she can resist her shin into my hand, into my pressure. What this does is create an internal activation or “waking up” a part of the body (in this case the lower leg, foot and ankle) that is otherwise not fully energized and engaged.
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