RYT300 Intensive Exercise Library
All remote students should review this Lesson but there is nothing to turn in. If you are a Physical Track student, you may want to spend a lot of time practicing the exercises and doing asanas as you think about which muscles you are strengthening and stretching. If you are an Emotional Track student, you may work more quickly through the material, but you’ll still want to know that you have this as a reference when you encounter those in physical pain.
Let’s Get Started:
Once you have assessed your client, you should have an understanding of any areas in the body that need increased range of motion or strength. How do you determine which exercises and asanas to recommend?
#1. Get to know your client. Understand what type of movement they are likely to enjoy and create a program accordingly. For example, if your client doesn’t enjoy exercise, but does enjoy mindful movement, you will probably want to select more asanas than straight out ‘exercises’. On the other hand, if your client is new to yoga but an experienced exerciser, you may want to slowly introduce asanas and select a few traditional exercises for your client.
#2. Pull from your existing asana knowledge and resources. If you determine that your client has tight hamstrings, you should already know a lot of asanas that stretch the hamstrings. Use resources from this course, your previous training, and anatomy books such as those by Leslie Kaminoff and Ray Long.
#3. Use Egoscue protocols.
#4. Don’t forget to add tapping, chakra work, meditation, pranayama and other mind/body protocols you feel are helpful to your client. You know a lot of these from your RYT200 and we will learn more during this course.
#5. Use this Exercise Library for great ways to stretch and strengthen the body. Review the document provided and try each exercise for yourself. Try to get a volunteer or two to allow you to teach them the exercises.
You are not required to turn anything in for this assignment, but you may want to review the exercise library document, practice the exercises, and practice teaching the exercises to volunteers, espcially if you are planning to work with clients with physical issues. On the other hand, you may decide you don’t like these exercises and you prefer to use other movements or asanas. Like all tools we offer, they are optional. Pick what works for you and your client and leave the rest.
