Yoga Teacher's Companion, #5: Building Strength in Your Flexibility

[@JenniferCabral-h5q]

This is well explained and very helpful...thank you Jason!

[@JasonCrandellYoga]

Very welcome!

[@YogaBreaks]

Fantastic explanation .. I LOVE these teaching companion videos 👏 Thank you SO much for sharing yr wisdom. 😘

[@JasonCrandellYoga]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@arosheranasinghe3206]

Thank you for sharing your wisdom. I am truly grateful. As a new teacher, and an 'old' practitioner this is exciting and invaluable.

[@susannahazzaro2071]

I love the clarity of your teaching! Thank you!

[@JasonCrandellYoga]

Thanks, Susannah.

[@debraleong5519]

Thank you! Not an easy topic to cover in a short period of time. Thank you for making this so clear and concise! Very much appreciated and I'll be sure to share some of these videos with students. I think this would be so useful for them to understand as well. Very much appreciated!!!

[@thestablehealthstudio]

Invaluable information. So well articulated. Thank you thank you.

[@kimspilates6886]

Jason, I have a student who is probably in her 70's. She's in great shape and has been weight training and practicing yoga for years. When she practices forward folds her right hamstring makes a noise. She says it doesn't hurt but it feels like it is going to pop. Her doctor can't figure it out. I am not a doctor so we tend to soften the knees whenever we stretch the hamstring. Have you ever experienced this before with a client?

[@aprilburmester]

Thank you for your clarity. You confirmed what I have been feeling and experiencing in my yoga practice AND teaching. Lately, passive stretching has been demonized as so impractical! But the deep relaxation you experience in a practice like, for example, Yin yoga is profound. Of course, given that you don’t use Yin yoga as a way to try and deepen the stretch but more as a practice for deep release, softening, and letting go. 🙏🏾

[@JasonCrandellYoga]

You're welcome, April. Thanks for watching the video. Take care. -Jason

[@cannayogaliving7291]

Super helpful. Thank you 🙏🏽

[@JasonCrandellYoga]

You're welcome!

[@dpotengy1]

Thank You. I have noticed the difference during my practices but I didnt know it was also part of the YOGA ACKNOWLEDGMENT. Besides, I know how to do Stretch bfr working out. Thank you so much.

[@utegunn2653]

Please clarify something for me. Does engaging your muscles while they are in the passive mode, over time, increase their active range of motion?

[@JasonCrandellYoga]

Good question, Ute. I want to be careful with what a promise here. So, instead of saying "yes," I'm going to say, "likely." Here goes: it is likely that converting passive range of motion to end-range strength will 1) create greater strength at your end-range, and 2) increase your active range of motion. I say likely, because, well, an honest person will tell you that your intensity and frequency over time also need to be considered.

[@2011iryna]

Jason, for somebody with a very cranky hamstring, will end range eccentric stretching best to help to improve hamstring flexibility?