Balance Basics: For Yogis Who Want to Know How to Balance and Yoga Teachers Who Want to Teach It
Book Details
Author(s)Neil Keleher
PublisherNeil Keleher
ISBN / ASINB009AZVVS6
ISBN-13978B009AZVVS3
Sales Rank755,458
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
If you have difficulty balancing on one foot, balance basics shows you what to focus on to make learning how to balance easier.
The same basic principles can be applied to nearly any balancing yoga pose.
Rather than showing you how to think about balance the focus is on learning to feel where your center is in relation to your foundation, and learning to control it.
This sensitivity and control goes beyond skill and is something that can be applied in any activity.
Learning to balance is actually one of the easiest ways to begin learning about feeling and controlling the body. It is because in order to balance more easily we can focus on our interface between the earth and ourselves. This provides us with the opportunity to feel our center of gravity and when it is moving and also the opportunity to control it.
(There are other ways to control the center but this is the most basic.)
The exercises (and explanations) in balance basics can help get you on the road to better body awareness.
Why is better body awareness (and control) a good thing?
Because it can be applied to doing anything better. While skill and practice is still required, better body awareness and control makes it easier to learn new skills and better yet makes it easier to modify those skills.
Why does a japanese sword master practice calligraphy? Because the awareness and control that goes into handling a brush can be applied to handing a sword.
Why do handstands if you are a dancer? Because the same awareness from using your hands to feel and control your center can be used to feel and support your partner.
More than balance, this book is an introduction to better body awareness and control.
And that can be applied to anything.
The same basic principles can be applied to nearly any balancing yoga pose.
Rather than showing you how to think about balance the focus is on learning to feel where your center is in relation to your foundation, and learning to control it.
This sensitivity and control goes beyond skill and is something that can be applied in any activity.
Learning to balance is actually one of the easiest ways to begin learning about feeling and controlling the body. It is because in order to balance more easily we can focus on our interface between the earth and ourselves. This provides us with the opportunity to feel our center of gravity and when it is moving and also the opportunity to control it.
(There are other ways to control the center but this is the most basic.)
The exercises (and explanations) in balance basics can help get you on the road to better body awareness.
Why is better body awareness (and control) a good thing?
Because it can be applied to doing anything better. While skill and practice is still required, better body awareness and control makes it easier to learn new skills and better yet makes it easier to modify those skills.
Why does a japanese sword master practice calligraphy? Because the awareness and control that goes into handling a brush can be applied to handing a sword.
Why do handstands if you are a dancer? Because the same awareness from using your hands to feel and control your center can be used to feel and support your partner.
More than balance, this book is an introduction to better body awareness and control.
And that can be applied to anything.
