54 min
#73 Yoga Deconstructed with Trina Altman Movement Made Better Podcast
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- Fitness
Check out this week's episode with Trina Altman!
Trina is an interdisciplinary movement educator (SCOTT pilates / E-RYT 500). She is also the creator of Yoga Deconstructed and Pilates Deconstructed, which shows teachers how to take an interdisciplinary approach to foster an embodied understanding of yoga and Pilates in relation to modern movement science.
Trina has presented at Momentum Fest, the International Association of Yoga Therapy Conference, and Kripalu. She also created and taught a Pilates continuing-education course for physical therapists and was part of the faculty for the Brain Longevity conference at UCLA. Trina was the co-creator of Equinox’s signature program Best Stretch Ever, utilizing the mobility stick to improve functional range of motion, body awareness, and total body strength.
Trina was a finalist in the Next Pilates Anytime Instructor Competition in 2017. Her work has been published in Yoga Journal, Yoga International, and Pilates Style magazine. My classes have been featured on Yoga International and Yoga Anytime. She is also the author of Yoga Deconstructed®: Movement science principles for teaching, which shows yoga teachers how to integrate modern movement science into their classes and is published by Handspring Publishing.
In this podcast we discuss:
00:00 - Intro
09:41 - Didactics in yoga and pilates
10:44 - Pain / Hypermobility
16:25 - Yoga Deconstructed (Book)
19:58 - Common yoga (asana) injuries
22:37 - The evolution of yoga
25:05 - Yoga hands-on adjustments
32:37 - Lever and limb lengths
39:49 - Is yoga all the training you need?
45:12 - A typical training week for Trina
47:33 - Trampoline training
More from Trina:
https://trinaaltman.com/
https://www.instagram.com/trinaaltman/
Check out this week's episode with Trina Altman!
Trina is an interdisciplinary movement educator (SCOTT pilates / E-RYT 500). She is also the creator of Yoga Deconstructed and Pilates Deconstructed, which shows teachers how to take an interdisciplinary approach to foster an embodied understanding of yoga and Pilates in relation to modern movement science.
Trina has presented at Momentum Fest, the International Association of Yoga Therapy Conference, and Kripalu. She also created and taught a Pilates continuing-education course for physical therapists and was part of the faculty for the Brain Longevity conference at UCLA. Trina was the co-creator of Equinox’s signature program Best Stretch Ever, utilizing the mobility stick to improve functional range of motion, body awareness, and total body strength.
Trina was a finalist in the Next Pilates Anytime Instructor Competition in 2017. Her work has been published in Yoga Journal, Yoga International, and Pilates Style magazine. My classes have been featured on Yoga International and Yoga Anytime. She is also the author of Yoga Deconstructed®: Movement science principles for teaching, which shows yoga teachers how to integrate modern movement science into their classes and is published by Handspring Publishing.
In this podcast we discuss:
00:00 - Intro
09:41 - Didactics in yoga and pilates
10:44 - Pain / Hypermobility
16:25 - Yoga Deconstructed (Book)
19:58 - Common yoga (asana) injuries
22:37 - The evolution of yoga
25:05 - Yoga hands-on adjustments
32:37 - Lever and limb lengths
39:49 - Is yoga all the training you need?
45:12 - A typical training week for Trina
47:33 - Trampoline training
More from Trina:
https://trinaaltman.com/
https://www.instagram.com/trinaaltman/
54 min