The Art of Yoga Sequencing

by Jodie Rufty, Liz Parks

Overview

This is a sequence designed to show people how to stretch and strengthen the hip rotators. When your students understand how these muscles work in different asanas, they can do hip opening, back bending and twisting in a way that is safe as well as fun and invigorating.

In addition to providing a template that can be used to do or teach a hip opening sequence, this book also explains the logic behind the creation of a sequence designed to open the hips. Learn why it is easier to open the hips when you start with poses that externally rotate the legs and hips and then move gradually into more challenging poses such as Parivrtta Trikonasana (Twisted Triangle).

Product Details

BN ID:	2940013546950
Publisher:	Outskirts Press, Inc.
Publication date:	08/28/2008
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	180
File size:	9 MB

About the Author

As a senior teacher of Yoga for Yoga Works in New York and California, as well as a senior teacher of the Yoga Works teacher training program nationwide, Jodie Rufty has the experience, training and qualifications to explain the principles of sequencing as they relate both to individual body types and various types of practices: back bending, hip opening, forward bending, twisting, etc.

In 1995, Jodie studied with Yogiraj Alan Finger who developed the ISHTA system and who also co-founded the Yoga Works school, now one of the fastest growing franchises in Yoga.

Jodie has been teaching yoga for more than ten years and, in addition to Alan, she has studied with John Friend, founder of Anusara yoga, Rodney Yee, Ana Forest, Alison West, Genny Kapular, Sarah Powers and many others.

Liz Parks, a freelance journalist, has been teaching Yoga for five years. In 2002, Liz completed Alan Finger’s 500 hour ISHTA Yoga training program.

She has also studied, for the past four years, with John Friend and many of his senior teachers including Lois Nesbitt and Doug Keller, the author of “Heart of a Yogi, the philosophical foundations of Refining the Breath”, and “Yoga as Therapy”.

Most recently, Liz has been studying therapeutic yoga with Charles Matkin, a well known yogi who specializes in therapeutic yoga and alignment orientated vinyasa as well as with Mukunda Stiles, author of “Structural Yoga Therapy” and the founder of the school of yoga known as Structural Yoga Therapy.

Jodie can be reached at .

Liz can be reached at