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: Dynamic Pigeon Prep - Part Two of Four

Go to Part Three    Go to Part One    Go to Musings on Hip Alignment    Go to Chaturasana    Go to Femoral Rotation     Go to Hip Widening

Go to Basic Energetics    Go to Muscle States: Not Just Contraction and Extension    Go to my Musings on Shoulder Alignment 

Go to Floating the Shoulder Girdle   Go to Seated Mountain Pose    Go to Seated Half Sun Salutes    Go to The Value of Asking "Why?" 

Go to Most People Value "Goodness," but What Does That Mean?       Go to Potential Relief for the Persistently Overwhelmed

Mindful Alignment: Dynamic Pigeon Prep - Part One of Four

Go to Part Two    Go to Skills of Turning Yoga Poses into Engines for Health and Healing    Go to The Most Profound, Inner Actions of Yoga

Go to Benefits of Bio-Mechanical Alignment (Intro)    Go to Changing Habits    Go to Painful Muscle States    Go to What is Yoga Anyway?  

Go to A Therapeutic Union of External Form & Internal Action (Porta-Potty Pose)    Go to Chaturasana (Number Four Pose)

Go to Four Aspects of Hip-Opening    Go to Optimizing Downwards Facing Dog    Go to How to Live Your Yoga (Yoga Sutra II.46)

Step-By-Step Dynamics to Relieve Common Postural Pain: Porta-Potty Pose - Part Two of Five

Go to Part Three    Go to Part One    Go to Seated Mountain Pose    Go to Conscious Evolution and "Coming Home" to Anatomical Alignment

Go to Optimizing Downwards Facing Dog    Go to The Value of Asking "Why?"    Go to the Most Profound, Inner Actions of Yoga    

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)

Mindful Alignment Strategies: Balanced Stretching of the Limbs

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

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

Go to The Most Profound, Inner Actions of Yoga Aren't Easily Observed    Go to The Value of Asking "Why?"

Go to Refining Discernment: Mostly Led Yoga Classes and Mostly Taught Ones    Go to Challenges of the Yogic Journey       

Benefits of Bio-Mechanical Alignment - Seated Mountain

Go to Seated Half Sun Salutes (with pictures)    Go to Benefits of Bio-Mechanical Alignment - Intro    Go to Basic Energetics

Go to Musings on Shoulder Alignment    Go to Musings on Hip Alignment    Go to Hip-Widening (and Psoas Relief)

Go to Misalignments in Yoga Aren't "Wrong," but Repeating Them May Cause Injury    Go to Non-Dogmatic Languaging   

Go to Muscle States: Not Just Contraction and Extension    Go to Painful Muscle States    Go to Are You Down with Corpse Pose?

Go to What is Yoga Anyway? (with pictures of Ardha Surya Namaskar)    Go to Samskara    Go to Gayatri Mantra

Mindful Alignment Strategies: Forward Bends 1

Go to Benefits of Bio-Mechanical Alignment - Intro    Go to Benefits of Bio-Mechanical Alignment: Changing Habits

Go to Some Suggested Reading on Mindfulness/Meditation and Anatomy/Physiology    Go to The Value of Asking "Why?"

Go to The Evolutionary Benefits of Saying "Yes" to Negativity    Go to Most People Value "Goodness," but What Does That Mean?

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: 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       

Painful Muscle States: One General Feeling, Two Strategies for Relief - Part Two of Two

Go to Part One    Go to my Musings on Shoulder Alignment    Go to Everyone Loves a "Mommy Massage"... Guys, Too! 

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

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

Misalignments in Yoga Aren't "Wrong," but Repeating Them May Cause Injury

Go to Balanced Stretching of the Limbs    Go to Sickled Front Foot in Pigeon Pose    Go to Basic Energetics   

Go to The Most Profound, Inner Actions of Yoga    Go to No More Pains in the Neck    More about Knee Alignment   

More on Shoulder Alignment    More on Hip Alignment    Go to Can Yoga Help Ease Suffering?    Go to What Exactly is "Hatha" Yoga?

The Skills of Turning Yoga Poses into Engines for Health and Healing

Go to My Dynamic Pigeon Prep Series    Go to A Therapeutic Union of External Form and Internal Action Series

More about Ankle Alignment    More on Shoulder Alignment    More on Hip Alignment

The Value of Asking "Why?"

Go to Supta Baddha Konasana (Supine Bound Angle Pose)    Go to A Humble Thought Experiment on Dualistic Thinking    

Go to Misalignments in Yoga Aren't "Wrong," but Repeating Them May Cause Injury    Go to Changing Habits

Go to What Dharma Really Means    Go to Symbols of Kali Ma: A Path to Heightened Awareness