Ha! Thank you for the kind words :) I've been called many things, but not captivating! With appreciation 🙏🏻

Lol it is!!! 😆 glad to have you here!!

that's totally what I thought. She teaches better than my instructors in PT school. !!!

Billy, you just made my day. I am so glad that this supports your work and passion as a teacher 🙏🏻🤗

Lil - so glad it's helpful! Have a great time in your YTT ;)

Hi Ali, you are so welcome! You can definitely geek out here :) For further geekiness, check out gilhedley.com He also has a youtube channel. He was one of my teachers and puts tons out there for free!

@@RachelScottYoga I bought his DVD haha! I'm a big fan of his work.

@@YogawithAliBeale He is actually my partner :) I'll pass on your appreciation!

I’m glad they are of service🙏🏻🙏🏻

Yasmin, I'm so happy these are useful!! Great to connect with you here :)

HA! Thanks Shane - I very much appreciate your kind words - YES, right? totally work on your booty! They key to so many things - including the knee ~ It's interesting in yoga we don't have a ton of those poses (booty strengthening poses) unless we adapt the postures. One of the reasons that cross training with squats and lunges is so important ~ I'm going to put this vid idea on the list and give it a good think - it would be great if we could get some functional strengthening into the yoga class! 👍🏻

Awesome!!!! Two great complementary modalities!! Happy to have you here Jules! 🥰🥰

You are so welcome Aaron!! 😀

My pleasure - glad to have you here!

🤍🤍great to connect with you here Monisha!

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Glad to help Lara! 😄

I'm glad it was helpful!! Congrats on starting your 200 hour - come visit a Zoom online class sometime :)

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YAY!!! I'm so happy it's helpful :)

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Hahaha I love Claire!!!! 😁

My pleasure Lisa!!!

You are so welcome!!

Christina my pleasure 😘great to connect with you here!

@@RachelScottYoga and btw, your butt - the bully, just cracked me up, I literally couldn’t stop laughing 😂 your humor is priceless, love at first sight exists! 😆 💕

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Hi Jennifer, that is so amazing to hear. What a wonderful and important training to offer; I’m so glad that these videos could provide some support for such valuable work 💕💕

You are so welcome!! :)

You're so welcome!!! It's a mystery muscles to be sure :)

🙏🏻happy to to hear it Barry! 😄

You are so welcome, Hatice~ ;)

You are so welcome!! I'm so happy it's useful :) Nice to connect here~

My pleasure! I'm so glad it's helpful :)

You are so welcome Amalia! I’m so happy it’s helpful!😁💕

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Lari you are so welcome!

Nice to meet you here Kevin! :)

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That’s wonderful Christina! Happy to connect with you here 😄💗

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Yay!! Good timing! 😁

My pleasure - I appreciate the kind feedback!

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My pleasure Jeremy! So nice to connect with you here

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Awww, thanks Ula!! I appreciate your being part of this KZfaq community! :)

Elisabetta - you're so welcome, glad you're here!

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@@RachelScottYoga thank u u made my day ☺

🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻happy to have you here Janna!

Anatomy is SOOO much fun ;) Yes, absolutely, pain in your adductors could be about weak abductors, overactive hip flexors...the hip is so complex (and does so much work for us) that there are a myriad of possibilities. I'm a huge fan of checking in with a good physio and doing some muscle testing and a little pre-hab to get them working happily. Sometimes it can be an surprisingly quick fix to get the body happy again ~

@@RachelScottYoga sounds like a great advice thanks so much!

Happy to have you here Angela! Forgive this insane delay in my reply!

Hi Dain~ you'e so welcome! My favorite way to stretch the IT band is to lay on the back, extend right leg straight up (with a strap or scarf around foot) and then - keeping right hip down (that's important), cross the right foot across the body to the left to create a diagonal stretch across the outside of the leg. You must do your best to straighten the leg. It's terrible, it's wonderful! Hold for 90 seconds :)

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So happy that you find it useful :)

👍🏻🙌🏻happy to meet you Deb!

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Amber C thx Amber 🙏🏻

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Anita Smith omg thanks Anita! 🥰

You are so welcome Marg!

Jessica, you are so welcome!

Hi there! I sure do; with DoYogaWithMe. Our TT is mostly online - only the final retreat is in person. If COVID continues to impact us through next spring, we will offer the final portion online as well. You can find out more at courses.doyogawithme.com/ - or I'm happy to answer questions : )

Hi Alexandra ~ Good question and an interesting one to contemplate....Generally, I think that the yoga practices we do currently are human practices, rather than masculine practices. Although one could definitely make an argument that the ascetic practices of Patanjali's yoga has a rather Spartan approach to focusing on overcoming discomfort and enduring austerities - which seems more rooted in a masculine and warlike orientation. If you haven't run into it yet, I think you might enjoy Mark Singleton's Book Yoga Body, which speaks to some of the militaristic origins of our recent postural yoga craze. In terms of supporting the human experience, I think this is the reason I am drawn to study Tantrik practices (rather than ascetic practices)...it invites a more inclusive and welcome engagement with all aspects of life - and (at least to my limited understanding) invokes a welcoming relationship to life rather than one that tries to dominate or tame ourselves and our human condition. Not so surprisingly, this correlates with Tantra's renewed interest in the sacred feminine and an honoring of the material world. :) Developed by mostly men, mind you, but I think Tantra could be good path to explore in the search for the feminine in yoga. A lot of yoga schools focus on Patanjali and hatha yoga...and kinda skip over Tantra. I think it's worth re-connecting the historical dots. Now, practically speaking in terms of asana, we might point to the feet together of tadasana or the wildness of hand balances (which would tend to be a little more suited naturally to men). But I don't find these postures harmful for women in particular. Except perhaps I will note that we all need to relax our pelvic floors as well as engage them, so let's not get overly crazy about mula bandha without considering relaxation too? However, I'd like to put that in a larger box - and feel that ALL postures should be contextualized with a healthy dose of "what works for me as an individual?" which should be keenly considered by all of us ~ of all genders ~

@@RachelScottYoga I'm so grateful for your response! I appreciate your undestranding of the subject and the book suggestion! I have not dabbled in Tantra yet and would be interested in researching more after this. Much love.

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Hi Nelly! Nice to connect! Not sure what you mean by animations? Do you mean the graphics?

Hallo hallo! Do you mean for continuing education credit? Or for learning to teach? Thx :)

Thais, so glad to hear this question! Yes you can. It’s good to bend the knees when the priority is to keep the spine long.👍🏻

@@RachelScottYoga perfect!! Thank you!

In movement, internal and medial rotation are used interchangeably, as are external and lateral. Can't speak to medical terms as I'm not a doctor :)

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Hi James! I don't think that your that psoas has any impact on the shape of your tailbone. More likely, you either banged your tailbone at some point in time and knocked it off straight, or you simply came into the world that way. And I'd add that it's supposed to be short, so you're probably alright there!

@@RachelScottYoga Sweet deal, thanks for getting back to me. I was warming up to the idea of a birth defect. Navasana seems almost impossible on the mat, could that be the stirring up of latent fear? Or could it just be weakened core needing attention...