As a physiotherapist and yoga teacher, my way of teaching yoga asana may be different from other teachers. Some teachers may emphasize on alignment, some teachers may focus on flexibility, some love to challenge your limits and teach inversion and arm balance pose, some may make their class very meditative. For me, I love to combine my understanding on human anatomy and body mechanics into the asana practice. My asana class is more like therapeutic exercise training that help your to gradually build up strength and flexibility of the body for a more healthy and balanced life.   

 

Modern yoga put a lot of emphasis on flexibility. In addition, there’s a tendency for the practitioners pursuing perfection and increasingly challenging poses in their asana practice. However, this orientation of practice is not suitable for every people, especially those people that are sedentary in lifestyle. Traditionally, the asana practice in Hatha Yoga was not to merely make the practitioners flexible, but to create harmony of mobility (flexibility) and stability (strength) in our physical body.  In modern physiotherapy and movement training, it is also believed that both strength and flexibility are important for optimal function and coordination of the human body along with good proprioceptive awareness. If unbalance happens, we are more prone to pain and injury. 

 

In my class, the harmony of our body can be achieved by the focus on the following aspects.

1. Breathing Exercise 

2. Joints Mobilisation of the whole body

3. Posture Awareness and Correction

4. Asana practice & related exercise training - to facilitate balance between Strength & Flexibility

 

Yoga Asana is suitable for everyone & every body, and not limited to those flexible ones. 

Everyone is unique and every body is different. 

Understand our own body. 

Train & Exercise accordingly. 

Practice Asana in a safe manner. 

Your health & wellness is in your own hands. 

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身為一名物理治療師及瑜伽老師，我教授瑜伽的方式可能與其他人有所不同。有些老師可能會強調姿勢的擺位，有些老師可能會專注於柔韌性，有些老師會挑戰你的極限並喜愛教授倒立和手平衡等高難度姿勢，有些老師可能會另課堂非常有禪意。對我來說，我喜歡將對人體解剖學和身體力學的知識帶入我的課堂中。除了瑜伽體位法的練習，我的課也結合了治療性運動訓練，以幫助各同學逐漸重建身體的力量和靈活性，重獲健康平衡的體質。

 

現代瑜伽非常強調身體柔韌性，不少人對姿勢的完美有近乎瘋狂的執著，而挑戰高難度姿勢也是近年瑜伽練習的一種趨勢。但是，這種練習取向並不適合每一個人，特別是整日久坐及甚少運動的人。傳統上，哈達瑜伽中的體位法不僅是使練習者變得柔軟靈活，還幫助我們的身體在活動性(柔韌性) 和 穩定性(肌肉力量)之間取得平衡。在現代物理治療和動態訓練中，人們都認為，良好的本體感覺再加上足夠的肌肉力量及柔韌性，對人體的最佳活動功能和協調是非常重要。如果發生任何不平衡，便會容易引發痛症及受傷。

 

以下四項是我的課堂重點，藉此幫大家重建身體平衡。

1. 呼吸練習

2. 全身關節活動

3. 了解自己姿勢及如何糾正

4. 體位法練習及相關運動訓練：促進力量與柔韌性之間的平衡

 

瑜伽是適合每個人去鍛練的，而不局限於那些身體柔軟的。

我們每個人都是獨一無二的，每個人都是不同的。

了解我們自己的身體，

恰當地訓練和鍛煉，

以安全的方式練習體位法。

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每一個人的健康都可以掌握在自己手中。