yuna jp en
At first I attended Foundation, and I thought maybe it’s easy because it’s Foundation, but when I attended it was so hard. Hard from the core of my stomach. I realized for the first time that I really can’t use my body. It was shocking and disappointing mixed together. But I thought if I continue maybe I’ll be able to use my body better.
I’m also in a teaching position, so at that time I could notice things like this way of moving the body wasn’t good after all. And parts I didn’t know that I’d been taught before, even attending regular classes they taught me. So looking at students I could adjust them thinking this is not good after all. I think I became able to do that.
The most important is the core. A bit, what’s common in women is anterior pelvic tilt. And with anterior pelvic tilt it’s hard to engage power or the power inevitably releases. First, the foundational movements to eliminate anterior pelvic tilt - I think being able to learn that in Baseworks Foundation was the biggest thing.
I did ballet when I was young, and dance too I’ve been continuing from long ago. There’s not really movement of taking arms backward, but when doing yoga for some reason, not this round body movement but forcing arms back, for some reason forcing unnatural movements.
But that’s kind of normal in the yoga world. But here they really use the body in a way that makes sense. So it’s not like ballet but fitting the body into it - even doing yoga I came to grasp that usual sense.
Often they say take center or bring consciousness to the center, and I think that’s said a lot. But often the body doesn’t really understand that. But without thinking about anything myself, while continuing practice, by myself my body started being able to take center, or while continuing practice balance started working better, or I feel like the way of using muscles has changed.
General yoga classes or yoga studios seek just the good feeling, like “I feel refreshed,” and teachers are happy being told “I feel refreshed” or “it felt good.” I think that’s yoga class.
But Baseworks, plus that, really feels like properly looking at the body. Not just that emotionally I could relax, but really training the body, and not training in a way that’s just painful or just hard, but being able to train the body at your own best spot, best point. And that being able to connect to your next energy - I feel that’s Baseworks.
By doing Baseworks, each individual pose has become easier to enter than before. Rather than forcing the leg up, being able to do the pose at the correct form. By doing that method, doing it before entering regular yoga poses, I feel like it can enter smoothly.
Like when twisting the body, twisting the waist and upper body kind of together facing a weird direction, that’s not the correct way of using the body. Rather than suddenly entering there, with what’s done in Baseworks, keeping the waist at a fixed place and twisting the upper body, going through there, I feel like the place you ultimately reach is a shortcut.
So when teaching yoga students too, after all, I became able to teach by first properly teaching the correct position, then deepening from there.
There are teachers who aren’t looking at students at all at studios, but really watching students well, and pinpointing like this part like this is good - the words are clearly not ambiguous, which is good.
I think everyone doing yoga should try it. Especially those who just started - after all, learning the correct way of using the body at the beginning is the shortest path.
Practice of returning to basics. When moving alone, you often don’t notice incorrect body movements. A place where they teach you precisely.
I think yoga teachers’ teaching would change. Looking at how teachers teaching here teach, that becomes learning for my own teaching. And also by taking what’s done in Baseworks and reviewing my own body again, realizing ah I should have used it this way, ah I should have taught students this way - I think they’d notice.