Mindful Alignment Strategies: Ardha Chandrasana (Half-Moon Pose)

Go to No More Pains in the Neck    Go to Misalignments Aren't "Wrong," but Repeating May Cause Injury    Go to Bio-Mechanics of Twists

Go to Supine Twists    Go to Porta-Potty Pose    Go to Seated Mountain Pose    Go to Benefits of Bio-Mechanical Alignment Introduction

Mindful Alignment Strategies: Supta Baddha Konasana (Supine Bound Angle Pose)

Go to The Value of Asking "Why?"    Go to Four Aspects of Hip-Opening    Go to Femoral Rotation and the Low Back    Go to Muscle States

Go to Lateral Hip Widening and Psoas Relief    Go to Chaturasana (Number Four Pose)    Go to Dynamic Pigeon Prep    Go to Psoas Image    

Go to Misalignments in Yoga Aren't "Wrong," but Repeating Them May Cause Injury    Go to My Musings on Hip Alignment   

Go to Optimizing Downwards Facing Dog    Go to Our Bodies are Sacred (Shiva Sutra II.8)    Go to What is Yoga Anyway?

Mindful Alignment: Dynamic Pigeon Prep - Part Four of Four

Go to Part One    Go to Chaturasana (Number Four Pose)    Go to Basic Energetics    Go to my Musings on Hip Alignment

Go to Optimizing Down Dog (for more on abs)    Go to Samasthitihi and Mula Bandha (for more on abs)    Go to Painful Muscle States

Go to Trika Philosophy OR Why One + One = Three    Go to How to Live Your Yoga (Yoga Sutra II.46)    Go to The Eight Limbs of Yoga    

Mindful Alignment Strategies: Chaturasana (Number Four Pose)

Go to Hip Widening & Psoas Relief    Go to Four Aspects of Hip Opening    Go to Femoral Rotation    Go to Muscle States   

Go to Musings on Hip Alignment    Go to A Therapeutic Union of Form and Action (Porta-Potty Pose)    Go to The Inner Actions of Yoga

Go to Skills of Turning Yoga Poses into Engines for Health and Healing (image of flointed foot)    Go to Basic Energetics

A Therapeutic Union of External Form & Internal Action: Introducing Porta-Potty Pose

Go to Part Two    Go to Part Three    Go to Part Four    Go to Part Five    Go to Seated Half Sun Salutes    Go to Basic Energetics   

Go to Muscle States    Go to Painful Muscle States    Go to Conscious Evolution and "Coming Home" to Anatomical Alignment   

Go to Musings on Hip Alignment    Go to Skills of Turning Yoga Poses into Engines for Health and Healing

Go to Benefits of Bio-Mechanical Alignment (Introduction)    Go to Optimizing Downwards Facing Dog  

The Most Profound, Inner Actions of Yoga    Go to Musings on Shoulder Alignment

Conscious Evolution and "Coming Home" to Anatomical Alignment

Go to Benefits of Bio-Mechanical Alignment (Intro)    Go to Seated Mountain Pose    Go to Seated Half Sun Salutes    Go to Changing Habits

Go to Musings on Hip Alignment    Go to Musings on Shoulder Alignment    Go to Optimizing Downwards Facing Dog 

Go to Mindful Alignment: Samasthitihi & Mula Bandha    Go to Mindful Alignment: Forward Bends    Go to Inner Actions of Yoga 

Go to Fall Festivals of Light    Go to Samskara: A Mostly Painful Aspect of Spiritual Evolution    Go to What is Yoga Anyway?

Go to Conscious Evolution & the Significance of the Evening Star    Go to Adhikara: A Process of Becoming Your Deepest Self

Mindful Alignment Strategies: Samasthitihi and Mula Bandha

Go to Musings on Hip Alignment    Go to Seated Mountain Pose    Go to Seated Half Sun Salutes    Go to What is Yoga Anyway?

Go to Skills of Turning Yoga Poses into Engines for Health and Healing    Go to Musings on Shoulder Alignment    Go to Muscle States 

Go to Painful Muscle States    Go to Benefits of Bio-Mechanical Alignment    Go to Misalignments in Yoga Aren't "Wrong..."

Benefits of Bio-Mechanical Alignment: Optimizing Downwards Facing Dog (Adho Mukha Shvanasana)

Go to Seated Mountain Pose    Go to Musings on Shoulder Alignment    Go to Musings on Hip Alignment    Go to What is Yoga Anyway?

Go to Benefits of Bio-Mechanical Alignment (Intro)    Go to Mindful Alignment:  Forward Bends    Go to The Value of Asking "Why?"

Go to Basic Energetics    Go to Wrist Safety    Go to Misalignments in Yoga Aren't "Wrong," but Repeating Them May Cause Injury 

Go to The Skills of Turning Yoga Poses into Engines for Health and Healing    Go to How to Live Your Yoga (Yoga Sutra II.46)

Go to Muscle States: Not Just Contraction and Extension    Go to Painful Muscle States: One General Feeling, Two Strategies for Relief

Go to Hip-Widening & Psoas Relief    Go to Non-Dogmatic Languaging for Yoga Class... and Life    Go to More on Sama (Balance)

Benefits of Bio-Mechanical Alignment: Four Aspects of Hip-Opening - Part Two of Two

Go to Part One    Go to Musings on Hip Alignment    Go to Benefits of Bio-Mechanical Alignment: Intro

Go to Trika Philosophy OR Why One Plus One Equals Three    Go to What Is Yoga Anyway?    Go to the Myth of Multi-Tasking

Benefits of Bio-Mechanical Alignment: Four Aspects of Hip-Opening - Part One of Two

Go to Part Two    Go to Benefits of Bio-Mechanical Alignment: Introduction    Go to Basic Energetics    Go to Changing Habits

Go to Femoral Rotation and the Low Back    Go to More on Knee Alignment   Go to Four Muscle States    Go to Painful Muscle States

Go to More on Ankle Alignment    Go to Musings on Hip Alignment    Go to Musings on Shoulder Alignment

Go to Hip Widening and Psoas Relief   

Benefits of Bio-Mechanical Alignment: Femoral Rotation and the Low Back

Go to Lateral Hip Widening and Psoas Relief    Go to Benefits of Bio-Mechanical Alignment (Intro)    Go to Basic Energetics    

Go to my Musings on Hip Alignment    Go to Painful Muscle States    Go to Changing Habits    Go to Contraction Wrinkles    

Go to Skills of Turning Yoga Poses into Engines for Health and Healing    Go to my Musings on Shoulder Alignment

Go to Four Aspects of Hip-Opening    Go to Chaturasana (Number Four Pose)    Go to Pigeon Prep (Eka Pada Rajakapotasana Prep)

Benefits of Bio-Mechanical Alignment: Hip Widening (and Psoas Relief) - Part Three of Three

Go to Part One    Go to Part Two    Go to my Musings on Hip Alignment: Part Two (for more on Aligning the Femur Heads)

Go to my Musings on Hip Alignment: Part Four (for image of the Psoas)    Go to my Musings on Shoulder Alignment    

Go to Basic Energetics    Go to Benefits of Bio-Mechanical Alignment (Intro)    Go to Painful Muscle States

Go to Muscle States: Not Just Contraction and Expansion    Go to Skills of Turning Yoga Poses into Engines for Health and Healing

Go to Optimizing Downwards Facing Dog    Go to Non-Dogmatic Languaging for Yoga Class... and Life

Benefits of Bio-Mechanical Alignment: Hip Widening (and Psoas Relief) - Part Two of Three

Go to Part Three    Go to Part One    Go to Chaturasana (with image of the pose)    Go to Muscle States: Not Just Contraction & Extenstion 

Go to Misalignments in Yoga Aren't "Wrong"... (for images of Sickled & Winged Feet)    Go to Painful Muscle States (for Tight & Taut)
    
Go to my Musings on Hip Alignment: Part One    Go to my Musings on Hip Alignment:  Part Four (for image of Psoas)

Go to Skills of Turning Yoga Poses into Engines for Health and Healing (for Flointed Foot image)    Go to Basic Energetics    

Benefits of Bio-Mechanical Alignment: Hip Widening (and Psoas Relief) - Part One of Three

Go to Part Two    Go to Muscle States: Not Just Contraction and Extension    Go to Basic Energetics

Go to Bio-Mechanical Alignment: Intro    Go to Painful Muscle States (for Tight and Taut Muscle States)    

Go to my Musings on Hip Alignment (for image of Psoas Muscle)    Go to Changing Habits       

Benefits of Bio-Mechanical Alignment: Supine Twists - Part Two

Go to Part One    Go to Benefits of Bio-Mechanical Alignment (Overview)

    

Musings on Hip Alignment: 4th of a Multi-Part Series

Go to Part One (Hips)    Go to Musings on Shoulder Alignment    Go to Hip Widening    Go to Seated Mountain Pose

More on Ankle Alignment    More on Knee Alignment    Go to Benefits of Bio-Mechanical Alignment

Musings on Hip Alignment: 3rd of a Multi-Part Series

Go to Part Four

Musings on Hip Alignment: 2nd of a Multi-Part Series

Go to Part Three