Yoga for Strength

My mission is to teach you how to use yoga for strength so that you can practice safely and sustainably for life.

Kinetic Evolution in Yoga for Strength is about changing how we move so that our yoga practice can grow and stay strong. If poses are done from a position of strength where the body can hold you in positions without failure, then we are less likely to have aches and pains. We can enjoy a fluid practice from a feeling of relaxed intensity and without strain. The body and mind can work in support of the breath. 

Learning is nothing without taking action. Action can be small daily, even hourly, steps to build up the body millimetre by millimetre. If you are willing to put in some work in your yoga practice, and add a few things in addition to the practice you do on the mat, then I can help. I absolutely love when I give a student a different approach to a posture or movement and they think “Yeah, right”, but when they try it, they are surprised that it actually works.

So what is KEYstrength – Kinetic Evoloution in Yoga for Strength?

Kinetic – Movement
Evolution – Change and Grow
Yoga – Breathing Fully
Strength – Healthy Body

Kinesiology is the study of how the body moves.  How different muscle interact with each other in order to lift an arm or take a twist, or even going up-side-down and take weight into your shoulders instead of the hips.  The study of the anatomy of the human body and its muscles allows you to understand which muscles interact with each other to make the body move.  Or what to do when the body is not moving well.

The body changes and evolves as we go through different stages of our lives.  Nothing is too much when we are teenagers, there is a fearlessness that allows you to try things without hesitating.  But as we age, even a few years at a time, we might not even notice, things change.  Maybe you try something you did as a teenager and suddenly, oooops that was super scary.  We need to evolve with ourselves and take small steps.  There can be intention in this or an oooops factor can suddenly make its appearance and force us to hold back.  We might need to take a deeper look into how we can evolve our movement patterns. 

The actual meaning of the word yoga is to yoke, bring together.  Breathing is an autonomous action, meaning we don’t have to think about breathing, we just do.  However, if we don’t sometimes bring some awareness to the breath, we might develop what is known as shallow breathing.  Practicing taking longer breaths and really feeling how the breath affects your body from the inside is important for being able to have a healthy oxygen uptake.  As well as being able to full expel the breath and getting rid of the monoxide build-up.  Yes, we need to learn how to inhale but also how to exhale.  Bring the breath together from its opposites.  And then try and incorporate this as we also move.  Bring the breath together with movement.

To have a healthy body, to be able to do things we want to do (whatever that is: swimming, biking, running, tennis, even sitting for long period of time for work) we need strength.  Strength comes from muscles.  Muscles are what holds your bones and moves them for you to be able to walk, sit, stand.  Without your muscles you are literally just skin and bones.  We need to do things that will make us stronger.  And there we are back at kinesiology.  How to make the body move…