Understanding and teaching the headstand
Your earning outcomes include:
-To get better at performing, and teaching THE HEADSTAND and other inversions
-To learn the muscular-skeletal anatomy and physiology of the upper body
-To improve your practical understanding of the body mechanics of inversions
-To learn the anatomy and physiology of the Endocrine glands in the head and be able to explain the benefits of the headstand on their function and the overall impact on health and energy
-To learn different methods and various the stages of entry and exit into and out from the headstand.
-To learn how to build safety techniques to eliminate fear and prevent the possibility of injury that deters so many teachers from working with this important posture
The headstand is one of the most exciting and exhilarating achievements in Yoga, and the principles we will learn that enable safety and progress in the headstand also apply to other advanced inversions
The BENEFITS of learning and improving the headstand posture include:
-BANISH STRESS - quickly and more effectively than any other yoga asana
-STAND TALLER - greatly improve your day to day posture
-GET MORE confidence and energy, vigour and vitality
-FEEL GOOD by flooding your body with 'endorphins' - the natural 'euphoria' molecules
-ENERGISE the brain and nervous system so you feel bright and alert
**Learn, in a structured, sequential and safe way, how to prepare, approach, enter, maintain and exit the headstand posture and it's variations.
**Understand how to align your body posture to provide a safe, secure foundation for the headstand position.
**Overcome fear, by understanding the obstacles and difficulties you how to control your balance and what to do if you lose balance so that you can do the headstand with confidence.
The careful step by step, sequential approach to performing and teaching the headstand safely and enjoyably, can get progressing toward, or all the way into this most cherished of yoga asanas.
ALEXANDER WEST
-Senior Yoga Teacher, Yoga Alliance.
-Advanced Qi Gong Instructor, T’ai Chi Union of Great Britain
-Shiatsu Practicioner and Teacher. Zen Shiatsu Society
-Chi Nei Tsang massage teacher. Healing Tao, Mantak Chia.
