#40 - Keen on Yoga Podcast with Alexandria Crow

Welcome to the Keen on Yoga Podcast with Alexandria Crow. 


Alexandria is an internationally respected teachers’ teacher who
leads teacher trainings and workshops around the world. Through
her Yoga Physics methodology she aims to clearly explain the
what, why’s and how’s of asana, meditation and yogic philosophy
making the practice approachable for everyone, of every level and
of every walk of life.


She shares this knowledge with her students and other teachers so
they can practice and teach wisely, sustainably and mindfully.
Her in-person continuing education workshops and online
DeConstruct to ReConstruct Course, as well as her 300 hour
teacher intensive train teachers to be better informed on yogic
philosophy and history, the physical mechanics of the body and
how to apply that knowledge to asana, as well as how to ethically
lead group classes that are accessible and sensitive to all.


Her Yoga Physics mentorship program is helping teachers build on
their strengths, while discovering their own unique voices.


As a former competitive gymnast, the physical challenges of a
rigorous and highly technical yoga practice initially provided
Alex with a natural familiarity, but it was yoga’s philosophical
concepts and their application to one’s life that were and still
remain her driving interest beyond the physical technique of
asana.


Through a series of significant and unforeseen injuries her
practice and teaching has dramatically evolved towards
sustainability and accessibility. Alex has spent years
researching the reasons that yoga classes and poses are often
unsustainable and carry risks for the population who can perform
them while also being inaccessible to a large portion of the
population. 


Moving Forward


Years of research, scientific inquiry, self inquiry/scrutiny,
development and integration have gone into Alex’s work. The
result is an evolved set of techniques and approaches that
eliminate the problematic components of physical asana practices
and group classes while providing an in-depth understanding of
how individual teachers situate themselves within these dynamics.


In order to move forwards from the current Western paradigm,
Alex’s courses add techniques that retain the qualities students
love about yoga classes but allow students to engage in personal
inquiry with agency at a much greater depth. The class formats
and teaching tools that Alex offers are sustainable and
accessible for anyone that wants to take class regardless of
circumstance and that teach yoga’s philosophy in real time in an
experiential way.


Alex’s emphasis on paying attention and her insistence on each
individual respecting their own uniqueness encourages them to
love and celebrate who they are. It’s this love of their own
unique perfection that creates true change in her students so
they can connect with more grace to themselves, to others and to
the world.