Why Yoga Injuries Happen with Alexandria Crow - a podcast by Cora Geroux

Wowee, this was a fun episode. I had a whole host of questions compiled, but today’s guest, Alexandria Crow, was just bringing so much gold, I had to follow it. If you don’t know, early on in her yoga career, Alex appeared in several famous yoga journal ads, performing incredibly complex asana. As a new teacher, I was heavily influenced by those ads, and they played a part in forming my ideal of what a yogi, or at least, yoga teacher should be able to do with their body.

After several debilitating injuries, Alex has done a complete 180, and now teaches teachers how to make their classes functional & accessible. If you want to know more about Alex, and read her official bio, head over to the show notes via the link below.

PODCAST HIGHLIGHTS

• Alex’s journey from advanced poses on the cover of yoga journal to teaching ethical & accessible yoga
• The details of Alex’s yoga related injuries & how she’s practices now
• Alex then unpacks the issues with how we teach pose centric yoga classes, which include:
  • Ignoring skeletal variation / proportion
  • The requirements of many yoga poses that take us beyond functional range of movement
  • The fact that most teachers currently have a misunderstanding of biomechanics 
  • Coming to yoga with a seeker mentality
  • Group dynamics / giving over ones power
  • The lack of scaffolding, which leads to leading over teaching
• Hypermobility & the rates of hypermobility among the general population vs. in yoga teachers

FIND ALEX

• Alex’s Instagram
• Alex’s Newsletter
• Alex’s Website
• The Deconstruct to Reconstruct Program

FIND CORA

• Cora’s Instagram
• Cora’s Newsletter

For links & resources mentioned in this episode go to www.corageroux.com/episode61

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