FleshContext

A blog by Anna Karkovska about yoga, asana, alignment, anatomy, yoga philosophy

Friday, September 13, 2013

In Defense of External Rotation

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Yogis of all stripes view external rotation with ambivalence at best. I've heard many lamentations about coming to yoga and being very e...
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Friday, August 16, 2013

Why Internal Rotation of the Legs Is Misunderstood

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In yoga, we have a love affair with internally rotating the legs. Down dog: turn the legs in. Standing forward fold (uttanasana): turn the l...
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Friday, July 26, 2013

How to Release Groins of Steel

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Short answer: stop digging your heels! I came to this insight as I was riding my bike (which I do every day to and from work). Basically, I ...
Friday, July 5, 2013

Levator Scapulae: Perp or Vic?

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You can't integrate the pieces until you can differentiate them, and that for most people is a big deal - most people don't even re...
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Thursday, June 20, 2013

The Butterfly in Your Head

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We all know the expression: "As Above, So Below." Nothing is more so in the human body. And certainly the reverse is true too: as ...
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Thursday, May 30, 2013

What Knife-Hand Strike Can Tell Us About Hand/Wrist Alignment?

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One of the things that we are concerned with in yoga is creating space: space in the flesh body, space in the mind body, space in the emotio...
Wednesday, May 15, 2013

How Are Your Groins Connected to Your Humanity?

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"The groins are of great importance for humans because their full extension creates the upright posture unique to our species. In a sen...
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Anna Karkovska
Anna's passion for yoga and experience with its capacity to spur integration led her to become a yoga teacher in 2008. Anna's teaching is guided by a broad study of the yogic tradition, including her ongoing study of traditional and modern anatomy theories and biomechanics of movement, her own practice and (re)discovery of her body's potential, and the desire to decrease pain, increase function, and simply enjoy movement. Her classes are based upon applied anatomy and kinesiology and draw upon many different schools of yoga, structural integration, myofascial release and movement therapies. Students will discover how to engage optimally, work more effectively, and find greater physical ease in their practice - all with the aim of aligning with their unique muscular, skeletal and energetic blueprint. Anna's teaching style is precise and detailed with a few doses of dry humor thrown in for good measure. Anna's classes ask students to pay close attention to their alignment, position in space, and relation to gravity and to use the poses to serve them rather than serve the poses.
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