Anatomy for Yoga & Pilates
With Michael Stein
DVD - Full Length
Chapters Include
- Skeleton
- Types of Muscle Tissue
- The Best way to tone muscle tissue
- Eccentric Lengthening
- Hamstring anatomy
- Hamstring importance
- Agonist/Antagonist relationship
- Quadriceps
- Adduction
- The Psoas
- Paoas stretch
- Shoulders
- Latissimus Dorai
- Serratus anterior & Rhomboida
- Rotator Cuff
- The Knee Joint
- Knee Health
- Full Lotus Done Safely
Anatomy for Yoga & Pilates
with Michael Stein
A full length DVD for students and teachers alike who would
like to get a clear understanding of the names, location,
and function of most major muscle groups in the body.
Each chapter covers a different part part of the body
in detail and shows how you can tone and stretch these areas
using fundamental Yoga and Pilates postures no matter
what your level of experience may be.
You will also learn why certain core muscles are more important
for overall health and postural support than the more commonly
known superficial muscles.
About Michael Stein
Michael Stein is the Director of Ashtanga Yoga of New Paltz.
He has been practicing Hatha yoga for almost thirty years and has
been teaching it for fifteen years. Michael's father, who taught
yoga in New York City, first introduced him to the study of yoga
at the Sivananda ashrams in the Bahamas and upstate New York.
Through the years Michael has studied a wide range of disciplines including
Ashtanga, Iyengar, Kundalini, Sivananda, and Vinyasa Yoga.
In 1994 he completed his teacher's certification at "Yoga Plus"
in southern Crete. Since then he has taught at the Omega Institute
as well as many Yoga studios in the upstate N.Y. area.
Michael has led eight Yoga Teacher Training programs at his own
studio and various types of workshops that all stress the relationship
between Anatomy and Movement.