Anusara Universal Principles of Alignment™ in detail…
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Anusara is … A teaching that transforms lives
• What they are • Feeling Elements • Why we do the alignment • Alignment Steps & Commands • Physical Effects • Energetic Effects • Alignment Relative to Other UPAs and Loops • Specific verbal prompts to create this action • Poses most affected • Teaching Exercises
Below you will find separate links to each of the five Universal Principles of Alignment. They are presented in a way that helps the Anusara teacher fully understand the spectrum of the UPAs so they can be mastered and taught more effectively:
1. Set the Foundation & Open to Grace (OTG)
“Grace, The Merging of the Divine and the Human Heart” article
2. Muscle Energy (M/E)
3. Inner – Expanding Spiral (I/S)
4. Outer – Contracting Spiral (O/S)
5. Organic Energy (O/E)
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Anusara is … Taking each other to new places of self discovery