Are you a yoga teacher and looking to enhance your yoga anatomy knowledge?  You may be wondering what are the benefits of enhancing your yoga anatomy knowledge.

Firstly as a yoga teacher if you enhance your knowledge of anatomy and physiology it will deepen your understanding and connection to the human body.  If learnt from a yogic perspective a teacher will learn how to integrate this knowledge into their teaching.

The integration of the information of yoga anatomy and physiology into a yoga teachers comprehension means the teacher will be able to teach yoga asanas with more content and also the yoga teacher deepens their knowledge base.  The good thing about this is that all of this integrated knowledge can then be transmitted to students in class who have the benefit of the increase in this knowledge.

What else can be gained from studying further anatomy and physiology for yoga?  For starters, a deeper understanding of the alignment within each asana. 

A lot of information on anatomy and physiology for yoga relates to the musculoskeletal system.  What this means is studying all the muscles and bones of the human body.  Where each muscle originates, where it attaches and what each muscles function is.

Knowing the musculoskeletal knowledge of the human body system can work wonders for the understanding of asana alignment.  And a big part of asana yoga is correct alignment.  All the benefits of the asana can be assimilated when there is correct alignment.  With adjustments all it takes is a slight adjustment to make a big difference in ones yoga practice.

Yoga anatomy and physiology is taught within yoga teacher training courses, but often it is brief or in time the yoga teacher forgets this information.  Here is where a revision course can be most useful.  Otherwise there are dvds and books to reinforce ones yoga anatomy and physiology.

Overall, as a yoga teacher, increasing your knowledge base helps provide an enhanced class for your students.  A better class experience means better retention rate of students.  A better retention rate of students can only be a good thing for your yoga business.

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