Ashtanga Yoga Jump Through Down Dog To Sitting - Shana Meyerson YOGAthletica

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Love, love, love the way you break everything down and make it accessible for all! Loved the blanket technique!

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Shana, thanks to you (yet again) I've nailed a new move. You're the best.

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Glad to hear your manhood is still intact! That’s something to celebrate! 🎉 It is true that squeezing your legs together helps to engage your core (read: mula bandha and uddiyana bandha)! So, that makes sense. But it is a nice-to-have, rather than a must-have, in these particular poses. You sound awesome, fit, and totally able to do the work. It will click!

[@chuanphitkhamdee]

I watched some of your videos and i like them a lot. You made it easy to understand and accessible and I feel want to try and think i will make it one day. Thank you.

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chuanphit khamdee so great to hear that my videos are giving you confidence to try new stuff! let me know how it goes! and enjoy! :)

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FABULOUS!! ONE OF THE BEST I HAVE SEEN!!! THANK YOU!!!

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your videos are fantastic - way better than anything else - because you apply so much logic to it and you give increments which is so important. The best on youtube!

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LOl ill tell the world!

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[@jenelld]

Brilliant teaching! Thank you!

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[@hemashankar5215]

Thank you for this video. Love from Mumbai.

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[@moyinggerk]

Oh man.. thanks so much for the towel sliding method. I can’t lift myself but with towel I can slide and not lose the core engagement so can do this to get my core stronger

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moyinggerk it’s a perfect technique to make this accessible and still powerful! 💗

[@emmalouisewinter3343]

Thank you for this brilliant break down 😁

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you are so welcome. thanks for taking the time to comment. :)

[@sakinney3]

thanks so much for this mini-lesson! definitely something to work on.

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sakinney3 hope it helps! :D

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thanks, +jen martin! for whatever reason, i can't tag you, but so glad this helped! :)

[@UnravelingJennax]

I might actually be able to do this! Off to try it. Thanks for the indepth explanation.

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Unraveling Jenna you're so welcome. :) hope it goes well for you! :D

[@khushalidave3753]

Hi , I love your videos and you are really awesome teacher. Can you also please help me understand when to inhale and exhale during the jump through, it will really help

[@YOGAthletica]

Thank you so much! Jumps come on the exahale. :) So, inhale before jumping and exhale during (or after) the jump. 💗

[@khushalidave3753]

shana meyerson thank you sooo much... I was not expecting a reply as the video is so old...but thanks again ...and one more thing, you are super cute...

[@khushalidave3753]

Wow!!!!i just did it and it was a leap in my practice...I could hold my jump in the air for fraction of secs...:yupieee !!!!thank you thank you

[@YOGAthletica]

How super awesome! You got it! 💗 It will become easier and more natural the more you practice it. 💗

[@MrJaiscy]

Hello, I really enjoy your videos and the way you explain to do some poses...it inspires me to keep practicing... I've been practicing ashtanga yoga for almost two years in my room with out a teacher. But now, watching your videos helps me a lot...btw, what's your favorite yoga mat?? Thank you!!

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Jay Ce good to hear from you and so glad the videos help. for a mat...manduka pro. and nothing else. i won't practice without mine! :)

[@yogaingapl481]

Aaaaaaaaa! It is great idea! You so creative and clever! Thank you! When l can do this, l will write ;D

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Inga Inga please do let me know how it goes. :) have fun! :D

[@peppergina]

Hey Shana! Great video, out of interest - what style of yoga do you practice? You've referenced a few Ashtanga movements is that your preferred style? Thanks! x

[@YOGAthletica]

yogina thanks for writing. :) personally, i come from a free-form vinyasa style. my teachers were all ashtangis (and a few iyengars), but i never subscribe to doing the same thing every day...so i'm not an ashtangi... but this transition is one you see in ashtanga repeatedly. :)

[@loladmrt7819]

Hello from France! Thank you very much for your videos, you are a very good teacher. I progress en yoga and also en english . I have problems of flexibility but I am working about it.... See you later on youtube 😉

[@YOGAthletica]

LOLA DUMORT merci beaucoup! mon francais est tres terrible, mais votre anglais est tres bien. that being said...thanks for your note and enjoy the show. ;)

[@Kuacja]

Namaste! Thank you for the video, could you tell me, please, why do I have to point my feet in the beginning if I have to flex them in the middle? I struggle with that, I put so much effort to not flex them from the beginning ;) Have a good weekend! Ewa

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Ewa Kuacja good question! You point so that they are closer to your tush (hence further from the floor) and therefore easier to lift.

[@marianabz2002]

Love it !!!❤️

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[@mywbas9160]

U r the best one thanks

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My Wbas thank you!!!

[@leonardpereira7031]

Thank you. I'm going to work on this

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+Leonard Pereira it's a great one to master! so many transitions come from this one skill... ;)

[@clray123]

I guess you are showing it, but never mentioning it explicitly in the video, so here's a question: when you talk about "engaging your core like crazy", are you actively pressing your knees and thighs together - not just pulling them up? I have a suspicion that it might be what I've been doing wrong all the time (keeping knees apart in order not to crush my jewels), also in my tucked handstands and in standing poses (e.g. keeping feet a little apart instead right next to each other in tadasana). So I'm certainly missing the leg squeeze instinct - but is it required?

[@YOGAthletica]

clray123 keep the jewels safe and sound. You don’t have to pull your knees and thighs together. But you do have to pull your knees to your chest in this one. Engaging your core like crazy refers more to rib cage to pelvis action. Have you seen my “secret to all of yoga” video and sequel?

[@clray123]

Yes, I've seen those videos, and also understood the whole bracing for the punch, keep chest down, try not to bend back concept before, and also was able to deep pulling the knees to my chest (as in each knee touching its corresponding nipple), standing or lying down. Still very poor control in unsupported handstands. But I just got back from a session in which I tried out this idea of mad squeezing together of legs, and it definitely seemed to help me (or maybe I was just in excellent shape, which is unlikely because I was hurting in overstretch department from two days before). I managed to keep my legs (including feet) together while transitioning from tucked to full handstand, and felt in control (well at least for some seconds after which the usual desperate hand walking commenced - but this time with legs not flying apart). I also have not felt very exhausted after multiple attempts. This is something which has never worked so well before. It's strange because when doing the "hop into straddle" handstand variant, the knees are also wide apart, but that variant has always worked somewhat better in terms of keeping balance for me than the tucked or the regular entering (the last of which is the worst, despite having watched tons of videos, including yours). After I recover, I'm going to check if this squeezing also helps with lolasana (another pose which I have so far found impossible so far to hold without slowly dropping down - and too painful to even practice with props). This is despite having a defined sixpack, and no problems whatsoever with navasana, hollow body holds or crunches. I suspect that my mula bandha is weak, and I often have tired feet instead of feeling "fresh and jumpy" as they should, which I think might both be related (because mula bandha seems to make legs feel lighter.) I think my manhood was unaffected by today's experiments, but only time will tell.

[@achengbellydance0928]

Thank you! again!

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[@rakeshsaw8550]

Very nice mam

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[@jimdavis6519]

Your way super cool! Ty You know all the cool tricks, you should skateboard

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Uh...you don’t want to see me on a skateboard... 🥴

[@gcsugirl]

Please come to NYC and workshop:-)

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yoyo yo would love that! just need a studio to host...

[@Yogamama100]

What are the actions of the feet when pressing into the blocks? My feet seem to get stuck into the blocks

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+Yogamama100 point your feet with your heels towards your tush, pull your knees and ankles into a tight "x" so they can get through the blocks.

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you are very good

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Mahima Haritosh 🙏

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