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Ready to work on your drop-backs?

Before you've experienced your first drop-back they seem impossible. In this workshop I pack in 20 years of working with students in drop-backs: the most common mistakes, and the most common solutions, for practitioners and the teachers who guide them.

4 downloadable videos, a downloadable PDF and lifetime access. Yoga Alliance CE hours: 2.

Yoga Alliance Continuing Education Provider (YACEP)

Here's what's covered

✓Gain an understanding of when you or your students are ready to begin working on dropping back.
✓See examples of real students in class doing different aspects of drop-backs. No, they’re not all super bendy.
✓Learn to identify the most common good and bad patterns — the ones to cultivate and the ones to correct.
✓Understand the anatomical components behind each of the patterns used in drop-backs.
✓Figure out which of the patterns most closely relates to what you’re working on right now.

Are you a yoga practitioner?

Ever dream about what it will be like to relax into a drop-back? This workshop will point out the most common mistakes made by yoga practitioners when they do drop-backs and how to correct for them.

Are you a yoga teacher?

Have you had students stuck either dropping back or standing up? This workshop will help you see the most common mistakes students are making and what type of instructions help different situations.

Exploring Drop-backs

$49 — lifetime access.

4 videos to stream or download, plus a PDF · 60+ minutes · yours to keep

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Introduction
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The Patterns
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Dropping Back
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Coming Up
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online workshop
4
downloadable videos
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downloadable PDF
60+
minutes of video
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lifetime access
1Introduction

Full video length: 09:40

·Create the context for drop-backs
·There’s more than one way to do it
·Why learn to drop back?
·Are you or your student ready?
·Dealing with the fear
2The Patterns

Full video length: 28:00

·Learn to relax
·Changing directions, forward and back
·When to bend the knees
·The most common bad patterns
·Fixing those bad patterns
3Dropping Back

Full video length: 18:35

·How to get started
·Can you use the wall?
·Using the wall constructively
·Avoiding bad patterns on the wall
·Controlling the momentum
·Putting it together — the landing
4Coming Up

Full video length: 13:10

·How to think about coming up
·The most common mistakes
·Why up-and-down doesn’t work
·Feet turning out
·Relaxing into the shape
·Put it all together
David Keil, yoga anatomy teacher
Yoga Alliance E-RYT 500 (Registered Experienced Yoga Teacher)Yoga Alliance Continuing Education Provider (YACEP)
  • Author of Functional Anatomy of Yoga
  • M.S. Exercise Physiology
  • Licensed massage and neuromuscular therapist
  • E-RYT 500
  • YACEP

Your instructor: David Keil

Before you've experienced your first drop-back they seem impossible. There is a lot going on in a short amount of time. Dropping back can bring up fear. Standing up provides its own technical challenges. However, when you get it right, they can be incredibly powerful and inspiring.

Like any other posture, there are techniques that you can apply that can help you move forward in this complicated set of movements. Some are big changes and sometimes they are subtle changes that make a big difference.

In this workshop, I pack in the last 20 years of working with students in drop-backs. I will clearly point out what the most common mistakes are as well as the most common solutions for those mistakes. You may be surprised to find that some of the most popular instructions may be working against you.

David Keil has taught anatomy in yoga teacher trainings since 1998.

More to the point: he practices. The anatomy in his courses lives on the mat, not in a lab.

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Questions

How long do I have access?

For life when you buy it outright: it stays in your library. Through the membership, for as long as your membership (monthly or yearly) stays active.

Do I need the book?

No — the workshops stand alone. (The Comprehensive Course is the one that uses Functional Anatomy of Yoga.)

CE hours?

Yes — eligible for Yoga Alliance continuing education hours. David is a YACEP.

Is there a guarantee?

Yes — a 30-day, no-questions-asked guarantee. Just email us. If you’re not happy for any reason, let us know and we’ll give you your money back.

When do I get access?

Immediately. You choose your password at checkout and you're straight into My library, where everything you own lives. Next time, log in at my.yoganatomy.com.

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