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既然有緣到此一訪,
何妨放鬆一下妳(你)的心緒,
歇一歇妳(你)的腳步,
讓我陪妳(你)喝一杯香醇的咖啡吧!

這裡是一個完全開放的交心空間,
躺在綠意漾然的草原上,望著晴空的藍天,
白雲和微風嬉鬧著,無拘無束的赤著腳,
可以輕輕鬆鬆的道出心中情。

天馬行空的釋放著胸懷,緊緊擁抱著彼此的情緒。
共同分享著彼此悲歡離合的酸甜苦辣。
互相激勵,互相撫慰,互相提攜,
一齊向前邁進。

也因為有妳(你)的來訪,我們認識了。
請讓我能擁有機會回拜於妳(你)空間的機會。
謝謝妳(你)!

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2018年1月30日 星期二

The Art of Inside-Out Hands-On Adjustments


https://www.yogajournal.com/teach/art-yoga-hands-on-adjustments

The Art of Inside-Out Hands-On Adjustments

Matthew Sanford teaches with a focus on subtle inner sensations, rather than physical actions. Reverse-engineer your hands-on adjustments.
Hands On Adjustment

Yoga Journal LIVE! presenter Matthew Sanford teaches with a focus on subtle inner sensations, rather than gross physical actions. Learn how to reverse-engineer your adjustments.

Like most alignment-based teachers, the majority of my adjustments are aimed at helping my students find more optimal alignment for their physical body in asanas. Yoga Journal LIVE! presenter Matthew Sanford approaches adjustments from a radically different perspective, though. Rather than offering physical corrections of a posture, Sanford believes that the real art of adjusting lies in revealing the pose’s effects on the subtle body.

Inside-Out Adjustments

Sanford, who due to his paralysis cannot make adjustments that require any sort of body leverage, was forced to take another look at adjustments, as well as the asanas. He now use an inside-out rather than the outside-in approach and focuses on shifting awareness from the actions of the muscles, bones, and joints to the subtleties of how consciousness moves and flows in poses.
“I think an adjustment is trying to reveal to you the subtlety in a pose — the way that the prana moves in the pose,” Sanford says. “And then the student has to explore how to sustain that sensation through the actions of the asanas.” Simply put, Sanford is reverse-engineering asana adjustments.

How to Make Inside-Out Adjustments

Let’s take Warrior II for example. As a teacher, you could lightly support the underside of each of a student’s upper arms from behind, eliminating a little bit of gravity and bringing some ease into the pose. Then you’d ask the student to find a way to maintain that ease. They may figure out that they need to use their legs more to support the pose, say.
Sanford points out that there’s a big difference in receiving an adjustment and taking an adjustment and that a good student will learn from an adjustment on the spot, paying attention to what is being revealed and where or how they need to work to support the sensation.

The Goal of Good Adjustments

At the end of the day, all good adjustments aim to do the same thing—create freedom, ease, and a sense of space in a pose. Arguing that the “sense of becoming a pose isn’t necessarily achieved through physical action,” Sanford believes adjustments should also reveal the internal direction and flow of subtle awareness through the body in asana.

3 Tips for Making Subtle-Body Adjustments

As a teacher, you can begin by asking yourself, what am I trying to reveal with each adjustment I give? Then play around with different ways of helping your students experience it through your language and touch.

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