How to Improve Camel Pose--And, Update Your Teaching Cues: Yoga Teacher's Companion #41

Learn how to improve your Camel Pose (Ustrasana) and help your students go deeper. This episode breaks down how to make the lower back, knees, and neck more comfortable in this posture. It also outlines the best cues to help everyone feel stronger, more flexible, and more comfortable in this backbend.
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Highlights:
:01 Struggling with Camel Pose
1:44 Overview
2:15 Improving Lower Back Comfort
3:48 Improving Neck Comfort
7:26 Improving Knee Comfort
9:18 3 Essential Cues
11:38 Building Strength & Control
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Jason Crandell is a natural teacher and author with more than 20 years of experience. Named “one of the teachers shaping the future of yoga,” by Yoga Journal, Jason has been an in-demand teacher at conferences around the world for more than two decades.
For the past 10 years, Jason has honed his approach by looking to peers outside of the yoga community, in the fields of physical therapy, orthopedics, and sports medicine. These collaborative partnerships have enabled Jason to offer the most up-to-date to asana technique, cueing, injury management, and hands-on adjustments. Jason’s goal is to blend the timeless wisdom of yoga philosophy with evidence-based information to create yoga curriculum that helps modern practitioners grow and evolve.

[@BradHoback]

I’ve been teaching camel this way for a while now. It’s amazing how enriched some of these arbitrary notions are for some teachers and students. Now I can send them to your video if they are skeptical! Thanks

[@JasonCrandellYoga]

You can definitely send me all your skeptics! Thanks, Brad.

[@Yogamoo]

Another great video, super structured. Great practical tips to enter and exit the pose. Love the Half Camel

[@miaday9250]

Phenomenal instruction! So clear and applicable! Thank you, Jason! I cannot wait to learn more from you!

[@JasonCrandellYoga]

Glad to hear it! Thank you!

[@marcelerasmus444]

Thank you Jason!

[@JasonCrandellYoga]

You're welcome!

[@pambell4546]

Excellent!! I have a Love/Hate relationship with Camel & a tip or 2 from this "Teacher Companion" episode may just help tip the scales. :-)

[@JasonCrandellYoga]

Give it a go and let me know how it feels!

[@stephkinneyyoga2988]

this was really fun, applicable & informative! inspired to teach some camel pose at class tonight!

[@JasonCrandellYoga]

Glad to hear it--so glad you're sharing this work with your students!

[@siansiekierski]

Thank you Jason for a brilliant, instructive tutorial, and for walking us through in detail entry and exit from the pose

[@KatieTuttle815]

I love these tutorials you have been doing! So useful. Thank you!

[@JasonCrandellYoga]

You're welcome, Katie!

[@marisaschreiber3228]

Thank you so much!! This was really helpful :-)

[@JasonCrandellYoga]

You're welcome!