41. why i abandoned alignment yoga
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I used to practice yoga with rules of alignment. In fact, this approach is the dominant way to practice postural yoga today; there is a safe and an unsafe way to to do yoga poses, there is a right and a wrong way. There are cues that yoga teachers give students on how to do poses well and there are assists that teachers can give to students to help them.
But what if the assumptions of alignment yoga are all wrong? I found out they are: come join me.