Enhance Mobility & Stability in Your Upper Extremities
This training explores the relationship between the shoulder blades, rib cage and thoracic spine, improving range of motion, creating tension in the right places and building strength and resiliency in the upper body through fun and interactive lectures and somatic exercises.
These anatomy bites are great for those learning to integrate more functional movement into their classes and inspiring new somatic connections.
A Compendium of Arm Balance Variations
Do you remember your first introduction to arm balancing? Was is something like "If crow is in your practice, go into it now" while you are working on your squat and looking around to see a selected few balancing on their hands?
This introduction often does more harm because students make a mental note that arm balancing is right for them or never going to happen.
And although the process of asana isn't about the pose happening or not, the willingness to explore and play is taken off the table.
This training includes a catalog of arm balance variations that regress and progress their forms, creative, supportive, and adaptive variations using modern and non-traditional props and movement bites that prepare for the most successful delivery of propped variations so that all level of practitioners benefit.
Self-Paced Learning
Study at your own pace and come back to the material as often as you'd like. Learn it and return to it for inspiration planning your classes.
Earn CEUs for Yoga Alliance
By finishing this course, you'll receive a certification of completion which will enable you to use this course for your continuing education requirements for Yoga Alliance.
Accessibility & Wonder
Add a sense of wonder and play to your classes without making them inaccessible. Humans need challenge but we also want to be set up for success. This formula of anatomy and movement bites paired with props will keep your classes fun, engaging and accessible.
Example Curriculum
- Upper Extremities Overview
- SAID Principle
- Let's See What You Can Do
- Shoulder Flexion & Extension Flow-spiration
- Shoulder Internal & External Rotation Flow-spiration
- Shoulder Abduction & Adduction Flow-spiration
- The Secret to Making Arm Balancing More "Comfortable"
- Hand Distance for Arm Balancing
- Creating Stability for Hypermobility
- Let's See What You Can Do - Part 2
- Accessible Arm Balance Regressions and Progressions
- Mobilization and Warm-Ups
- Plank & Chaturanga Dandasana
- Vasisthasana
- Bakasana
- Tittibhasana
- Parsva Bakasana - Side Crow
- Eka Pada Koundinyasana 1
- Eka Pada Koundinyasana 2 - Flying Splits 2
- Adho Mukha Svanasana - Downward Facing Dog
- Adho Mukha Vrksasana - Handstand
About Allison
Allison Ray Jeraci is an international yoga teacher who specializes in prop variation, pose-groundwork and variations for accessibility. She is a featured teacher for Yoga Anytime, a featured presenter for Yoga International and has co-created and led multiple yoga trainings for various studios and online platforms. Allison is also a featured writer for Yoga International and YogaUOnline.
Allison currently leads her own series of continuing education for Yoga teachers via her ARJ Yoga Hub programs where she offers an online library of on-demand yoga videos, meditations, and workshops, as well as live classes, and 1:1 mentoring.
Outside of yoga, Allison is an avid, amateur artist, 3rd degree blackbelt and language aficionado. She is fluent in Spanish and often travels to Latin America.
