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Stable Center

Stable Center

Work Your Recipe for Stability

Work Your Recipe for Stability

Core Activation Technique for Shoulder and Wrist Health

Tune up your core in a quick practice that introduces just enough technique to get you thinking about the importance of abdominal engagement in a variety of different poses.
Tune up your core in a quick yoga practice that introduces just enough technique to get you thinking about the importance of abdominal engagement in a variety of different poses. An active core is essential to protect the shoulders and wrists in weight bearing poses such as low plank (chaturanga dandasana) and downward facing dog (adho mukha svanasana). Our core is also what gives us the space to expand more fully into postures like extended side angle (utthita parsvakonasana). Although this is a core-focused practice, the pacing is oriented towards exploration, as opposed to intensive strengthening—great to practice on its own, or leading in to a more rigorous practice. Props needed: two blocks, cushion (optional)
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Lenth (minutes) 29
Focus Teaching Resource
Style Anusara
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Adam Ballenger

Adam Ballenger

Adam Ballenger, 500 HR ERYT, Utah School of Yoga Director Certified Anusara Yoga Instructor, Teacher Trainer and Subject Matter Specialist B.S. Exercise Science/Kinesiology, (currently working) on M.S. Kinesiology International Yoga Teacher/Trainer, Subject Specialist

Adam Ballenger has been practicing yoga since the early 1990’s and teaching since the mid 1990’s. His history of working on his own physical trauma and emotional wellbeing has spanned more than a quarter of a century. Today, Adam is a father, a husband, a local yoga teacher as well as a traveling yoga instructor and student as well. He regularly presents and teaches in Europe, Central and South America and Asia as well as at home in Salt Lake City, UT.

In his early years of practice, Adam enjoyed a playful, therapeutic and sometimes a wild and challenging yoga practice. Today, Adam still enjoys a challenging yoga practice but works to help others develop movement skills, sustainable body mechanics and mindfulness through asana practice. Adams “Active Aging” Yoga with older populations has been a long time passion as well. Through working with older populations, Adam has developed his concept of movement needs and compassion insights. Even if you aren’t a senior yet you may still catch these concepts as Adam weaves them into all his classes, developing these skills before their need is known. Don’t let Adam’s body wise fool you either, his 20 plus years of studying yoga tradition and philosophy becomes evident in his easy to follow and easy to use, modern day usage of Yoga and Buddhist teachings.

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