Spine Anatomy: Do You Understand the System Holding Your Practice Together?

Your spine is a team. A very talented team, with some serious communication and boundary issues.

In this episode, the first of a three-part anatomy series, we're looking at the different curves of your spine. Not as a boring anatomy lesson, but as the dysfunctional workplace happening inside your body.

Because every section of your spine has its own résumé. There are movements it's naturally great at, movements it struggles with, and jobs it will happily take over even when it absolutely should not be in charge.

In this episode:

🔹 Meet the workplace characters living inside your spine, from the people-pleasing lumbar spine to the creative director running wild in your neck

🔹 Why more mobility isn't always better, and how yoga can strengthen what's weak while creating boundaries around what already moves too much

🔹 How common poses like Upward Dog, Warrior I, Triangle, Camel, and even Cat-Cow can place the wrong part of your spine in charge

🔹 The cues and simple adjustments that help your core, sacrum, low back, thoracic spine, and neck actually work together

Good alignment isn't about making a pose look perfect. It's about understanding who is doing the work.

What part of your body is overworking? What part is avoiding the work? And who has apparently been working remotely from the Bahamas since 2017?

This is the kind of anatomy we dive into inside Uplifted Yoga Teacher Training, so you can move and teach with more intelligence, confidence, and compassion.

✅ If this episode makes you think, I want to understand the body this way, come study with us inside Uplifted → https://www.brettlarkin.com/online-yoga-teacher-training/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=podcast&utm_campaign=200ytt

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🎧 Also Listen to:

#280 – The Pelvis: Your Seat of Power & Embodiment with Lara Heimann

#369 – Nervous System Masterclass with Kristin Leal

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