▶ Help! My Legs Don't Leave the Ground
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▶ Does Negative Self-Talk Affect your Training? (Overcome these Limitin
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▶ How to Stop Wrist Pains from Preventing Your Progress
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▶ 3 Training Mistakes Preventing you from Making Progress on your Press
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▶ The Value in Understanding Your Body
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▶ Fascinating Survey Results
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▶ Are you Aware of *What* Muscles are Engaging when you Move?
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▶ Address Chronic Pain by Understand the Pain Cycle (How to Rid Yoursel
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▶ My Advice to you if you're Brand New to Press Handstand and Starting
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▶ My Advice for more Advanced Practicioners (Beyond Press Handstands)
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▶ How can Press Handstand Rebalance your Body?
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▶ Strength Training Vs. Pattern Training
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▶ My Philosophy on Press Handstand
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▶ Understanding How Mobility Works & How to Create a Top Level Strategy
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▶ The Science Behind How New Movement Patterns are Actually Created
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▶ New Insight on Press Handstand for 2023
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▶ The Functional Anatomy Starter Kit: How to get Better at Reading Bodi
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▶ What causes training plateaus? (And how to breakthrough)
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▶ Why causes training plateaus? (And how to breakthrough)
▶ A Glimpse at what a Modern Yoga Teacher Training *Should* Look Like
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▶ Truth or myth: Does core strength fix back pain?
So there’s an age old debate and that debate is whether or not. Doing core work and building a strong core is good for back pain now. On this episode. I’m going to end this debate once and for all. An
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▶ Does the Yoga Industry Exploit Teachers?
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▶ The State of the 2023 Yoga Industry
[00:00:00] Hey there. It’s Brian Aganad. Welcome to The Asana Academy podcast. Happy new year happy 2023. I hope the first couple days of the year are treating you well. And with that being said, I wa
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▶ TAA 071: The Relationship Between The Hamstrings And The Hip Flexors
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▶ TAA 070: The Ultimate Guide To Press Handstand
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▶ TAA 069: Should You Learn To Jump Or Press To Handstand First?
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▶ TAA 068: Speed + Simplicity = Results
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▶ TAA 067: Lessons I’ve Learned About Online Business Working With Over
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▶ TAA 066: Compression, Hip Flexors & Press Handstand
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▶ TAA 065: How Your Movement Patterns Contribute to Back Pain (Understa
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▶ TAA 064: Anatomy Lesson – Understanding the QL (And It’s Role With Pr
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▶ TAA 063: What I’ve Learned About Press Handstand Working With Over 10
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▶ TAA 062: What I’ve Learned About Press Handstand Working With Over 10
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▶ TAA 061: The Root Cause of Back Pain
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▶ TAA 060: Mastery of the Fundamentals is Mastery
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▶ TAA 059: How to Build Laser Like Focus
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▶ TAA 058: Understanding the TVA Muscle
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▶ TAA 057: 3 Ways to Kill a Press Handstand
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▶ TAA 056: Can Balancing Canes and Blocks Help Your Handstand Practice?
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▶ TAA 055: Active vs. Passive Flexibility
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▶ TAA 054: Do Core Exercises Actually Make you Stronger?
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▶ TAA 053: How to Correct Arm Imbalances
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▶ TAA 052: Does Practicing Headstand Improve your Handstand?
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▶ TAA 051: How to Build Strength at a Faster Rate
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▶ TAA 050: Straight Arm Vs. Bent Arm Strength
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▶ TAA 049: The 3-Step Process for Finding Success with Self Practice
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▶ TAA 048: How to Build Arm Strength (And How to Fix Hyperextension)
All right, so today's show is going to be all about building arm strength. The thing about arm strength that is tricky for students is you either fall into two categories generally. One of the categor
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▶ TAA 047: How to Correct the Hip Flexors + Hamstring Connection!
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▶ TAA 046: How to Fix “Misfiring” Glutes
Subscribe and Download the Show Here!To watch workshop I talked about in the podcast, just click the link below: How to Develop Hamstring Flexibility for Handstands & Press HandstandsAnd if you're int
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▶ TAA 045: 3 Hidden Things Holding you Back From Your Freestanding Hand
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▶ TAA 044: The Proper Mindset to Tackle a New Hand Balancing Goal
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▶ TAA 043: How to Measure The Effectiveness Of Your Hand Balancing Trai
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▶ TAA 042: How to Open Your Hamstrings
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▶ TAA 041: The Detailed Press Handstand Breakdown
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If you're working on getting your press handstand there's a few things that you really need to consider:
1. More strength isn't always the fix.
2. Pay close atten
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▶ TAA 040: How Often Should I Practice? (To Build Skill)
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▶ TAA039: 3 Reasons Why You Aren’t Sticking Your Pike
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▶ The 3 Phases Of Press Handstand – Which One Do You Get Stuck On?
https://youtu.be/9FGdL_N9hKA
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Hey there, I'm currently in the middle of teaching workshops and a training here in UK (Edinburgh) and have had so
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▶ TAA 037: How To Get Your Handstand Away From The Wall
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▶ TAA 036: What Driving On The Left Hand Side Of The Road Can Teach You
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▶ TAA 035: The One MAJOR Core Strength Building Mistake
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▶ TAA 034: Does Practicing “Wrong” Hurt Your Handstand Progression?
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▶ TAA 033: What You Focus On GROWS (And your hamstrings)
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▶ TAA 032: How to Build a Bulletproof Press Handstand Practice Q&A
Today's show is a follow up episode to my latest blog post, The Psychology of Excellence: How to Build a Bulletproof Press Handstand Practice. I'm answering questions that I received via email, Facebo
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▶ TAA 031: 4 Mistakes New Yoga Teachers Make (And How To Fix Them)
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In This Session You'll Learn:
4 mistakes new yoga teachers make
Why it's important to prepare scripts for your class
The 5 key scripts all new yoga teachers sh
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▶ TAA 030: The 180 Degree Press Handstand Theory
In This Session You'll Learn:
The 180 Degree Press Handstand Theory
Why it's important to not neglect your pike
Dissection of the press handstand movement - the 2 phases plus the pre-press
And so
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▶ TAA 029: Chinese Firewalls, The Benefit of Long Holds & How to Teach
In this session you'll learn:
The complete story of Devin Kelley and how he ended up teaching all over China
What Devin's practice is like and why he likes to hold poses for 10+ minutes at a time
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▶ TAA 028: How the Freedom of Dance Beat Cancer, Left People in Tears a
In this Session You'll Learn:
The complete story of Brianna Mercado
How Brianna battled back and beat cancer twice
How dance saved Brianna and how she turned a lifelong passion into a career
How t
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▶ TAA 027: How to Profit from People that Say “No”
In this session you'll learn:
One of the failures of most new yoga teachers (and why they never succeed)
"The fortune's in the follow up"
Why you need to ask for something more than once
What "N
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▶ TAA 026: One-Handed Handstands, The Brutal Reality of Iraq, & Champio
This is part 2 interview Dylan Werner, of Dylan Werner Yoga. This dude is a phenomenal guy, he does every type of arm balance imaginable including handstands, one-handed handstands, and hollow backs.
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▶ TAA 025: One-Handed Handstands, The Brutal Reality of Iraq, & Champio
In this show, I interview Dylan Werner, of Dylan Werner Yoga. This dude is a phenomenal guy, he does every type of arm balance imaginable including handstands, one-handed handstands, and hollow backs.
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▶ TAA 024: Alignment Truth & Lies, Perfectionism, & The Power of Thinki
Back by popular demand, I speak with Alexandria Crow again, founder of Yoga Physics, and we discuss alignments, joints, bad cues, perfectionism and being uncomfortable.
In This Session You'll Learn:
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▶ TAA 023: How Meditation Helped Build a Million Dollar Clothing Line f
In this session, I interview Chad Satlow, CEO & Founder of Third Eye Threads. He shares his early mistakes and failures building the brand that'll literally save you years of bashing your head against
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▶ TAA 022: Bad Anatomy, Rebelling Against the Institution & The Power o
This is part 2 of the show where I speak with Alexandria Crow. She’s a no B.S., straight to the point kinda person, which is really refreshing to hear in the yoga world. We speak about the reality of
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▶ TAA 021: Bad Anatomy, Rebelling Against the Institution & The Power o
In this show, I speak with Alexandria Crow. She's a no B.S., straight to the point kinda person, which is really refreshing to hear in the yoga world. We speak about the reality of being a "yogalebri
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▶ TAA 020: The Perfect Playlist, The Psychology of Handstand, & How to
This is Part 2 of my interview with Jonathan Rickert.
Listen to Part 1 here.
In this session you’ll learn:
The complete story of Jonathan Rickert
From collegiate soccer player to DJ to Yoga Teacher
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▶ TAA 019: The Perfect Playlist, The Psychology of Handstand, & How to
Jonathan, a former DJ and collegiate soccer player, brings the goods in this session, he cover's everything from how to put to together the perfect playlist for your yoga class (and where to find the
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▶ TAA 018: A Video Game Developer’s Radical Approach to Teaching Yoga –
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Harold "H" Gim is a character. His approach to yoga is completely unique and unlike anything I've ever heard. He's an F-bomb dropping and gangster rap playing yoga teacher and
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▶ TAA 017: How to Get Private Clients (and how to keep them)
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In this Session You'll Learn:
The most important thing you should do after you graduate from a teacher training
How teaching clients is different from teaching classes
How
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▶ TAA 016: Finding Your Authentic Voice (and how to stop fearing yourse
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In this session you'll learn:
How to find your authentic teaching voice
Why it's important to stay true to yourself
Silencing the Inner Critic
How to figure out what you D
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▶ TAA 015: What to do When You’re Stuck (in your yoga practice)
In This Session You'll Learn:
Why it's so important to honestly address weaknesses in your body
"Weakness Swapping"
Why it pays off to consistently change your routine
How setting multiple practic
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▶ TAA 014: The Zen of Dealing With Angry Students
In This Session You'll Learn:
Why it's important to find your teaching avatar
The inner critic vs. the outer critic
How to take negative feedback from students
How to prevent criticism from destro
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▶ TAA 013: The Art of Simple Sequencing
In this session you'll learn:
3 Ways to make intelligent sequencing simple
Common sequencing mistakes new teachers make
Why creativity isn't always a good thing for building a class
Why a self
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▶ TAA 012: How to do a Press Handstand Pt. 2 (a simple core routine)
In this session you'll learn:
The amount of core strength that it takes to do a Press Handstand
The "Circle Theory" of the hips (and how to determine the difficulty of a transition)
How to triple t
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▶ TAA 011: How to do a Press Handstand (repeatedly and effortlessly)
In this Episode, You'll Learn:
A clear strategy for learning how to press to handstand
Why stacking the hips is CRITICAL to nailing a press handstand
What to do about "overactive" shoulders
Strai
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▶ TAA 010: How to Properly Structure a Yoga Class (the simple sandwich
In this Episode, You'll Learn:
The Simple Sandwich Technique (including the wrapper) to structure a yoga class
What makes a yoga class perceived as boring & long
Why it's so important to unite th
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▶ TAA 009: Q&A #1 – Staying Motivated, Press Handstand Fixes, My Daily
Questions Answered on Today's Show:
"I feel like I'm constantly stuck in my practice, do you have specific tops for staying motivated?"
"I can't seem to get my Press [Handstand]. I can shift forward
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▶ TAA 008: 4 Simple Tips to “Quick-Fix” Your Headstand
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Q&A:
What is your take on students showing up late to class?
What You'll Learn:
The 4 Simple Tips to "Quick-Fix" your Headstand
One of the most common mistake
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▶ TAA 007: A Practical Guide to Building a Yoga Class (And how to make
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Show Notes:
The 2 largest fears of new yoga teachers (and how to overcome them)
The fears I had when I first started teaching
The most important question to a
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▶ TAA 006: 3 Handstand “Rookie Mistakes” Students Make (And how to fix
Show Notes:
The 3 handstand "Rookie Mistakes" that new students make
What's the deal with Yogi Toes?
Moving energy up vs. moving injury down
How to avoid wrist issues by engaging your feet
Subtle
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▶ TAA 005: Teacher Training – How to Develop Room Presence
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In this show you'll learn:
The common mistakes of brand new yoga teachers
The 3 "P's" & the grand "P"
The scary teaching exercise I do on the first day of tra
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▶ TAA 004: The Practical Guide to Engaging Your Core Correctly
In this show you'll learn:
How to engage your core correctly
The muscles that should be working and what you should be feeling
My favorite exercises for tuning the core "on"
How a properly engaged
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▶ TAA 003: 3 Ways to Overcome the Fear of Inversions
Show Notes
One of the most emailed questions to me of all time
Why overcoming fear is not automatic
The various yoga poses that cause fear
Why I used to be scared of dropping back and standing u
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▶ TAA 002: Handstand Roadmap Pt. 2
Articles Mentioned:
How To Do A Handstand: Why Not Stacking The Hips Properly Can Derail Your Progress
The Ultimate Guide to Handstand
From Day Dreaming to Goal Setting: Everything you Need to Crus
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▶ TAA 001: Handstand Roadmap Pt. 1
Show Notes
This episode is based off of The Handstand Roadmap and it covers Steps 1-4. If you don't have a copy of it, you can get your copy here.
Posts mentioned in the show:
How To Do A Handstand
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