Tate Englund Yoga | Seattle-Based Global Yoga Teacher | Strength, Alignment, Longevity

Tate Englund Yoga

Strength | Alignment | Longevity

"We need to stop trying to fit our body into the pose. We need the pose to fit into our body."

tateenglund

Yoga Student. Yoga Teacher. Owner of @pure8hotyoga. Husband to @bonnieenglund. Dad to 2 munchkins. U-DUB grad. Online classes & tutorials👇

TGIF! Here’s my YouTube free livestream schedule

TGIF! Here’s my YouTube free livestream schedule for this weekend:

Friday 12PM: Activating below the waist. Strengthen and lengthen. 60 minute vinyasa on hips, legs, feet.
Saturday 930AM: All things Bakasana. Crow Family and variations in a 60 minute vinyasa class.
Sunday 930AM: 60 minute vinyasa. Back bends where the arms are below the shoulders.
Join me live or come back later for the recordings.

Join me tomorrow 930AM for a free live 60 minute v

Join me tomorrow 930AM for a free live 60 minute vinyasa class, where we breakdown all the actions of this pose and isolate them using other postures. You can access the livestream from my YouTube channel through the link in my bio. Can’t make it, it’s archived for later viewing.

Ever curious about how the shoulder works when the

Ever curious about how the shoulder works when the arm is extended overhead? Heard the cue soften or pull your shoulders down the back when you have your arms up in crescent/utkatasana/warrior 1/etc? Do you want to know why that might not be the best idea for your shoulders? Join me tomorrow 930AM PDT on my YouTube channel where we work on all this in progression towards some arms overhead backbends in a 60 minute vinyasa free livestream. If you can’t make it, it’s recorded along with all my other live classes and 40+ classes, short sequences and tutorials on my channel for your viewing pleasure. And yes in this handstand my arms are over my head. And yes we will be using boulders in class for an added challenge😉

Here’s my YouTube livestream schedule for the we

Here’s my YouTube livestream schedule for the weekend. For my full schedule check my previous post that has the schedule.

Friday 12PM: outer hip strengthening and lengthening

Saturday 930AM: core strength and stability

Sunday 930AM: working towards arms overhead backbends and what you should be doing with the shoulder when the arm is overhead
All of these are FREE. I want anyone who wants to do yoga, to be able to through these difficult times regardless of their financial situations. If you feel like you want to donate, I am accepting donations where 100% of proceeds go to the yoga teachers at my studio and helping them out. Just Venmo me (tateenglund) your donation.
Hope to see somebody you this weekend!

I never feel more grounded than when I’m teachin

I never feel more grounded than when I’m teaching students. The fact that I can’t see people in the studio and in my classes for at least 2 weeks is unbearable. Fortunately I can still do my thing online with the technology we have today. No online classes will replace the feeling of practicing in-person, with other people sharing space and energy.

This morning I led my first livestream class to 60+ around the world. Even though I couldn’t see you, I felt you. I am so thankful that you brought me peace in such a difficult time for everybody.
I’m not a doctor and I will never pose as one. I can’t heal the sick. But I teach yoga. That is the vehicle I can try my best to help people during this time.
If you missed this morning’s class, see my previous post with the schedule. I livestream them through my YouTube channel which also includes 40+ videos, classes, tutorials and short sequences.

All my livestream classes are free. I’m not going to get into the argument on whether or not we should be charging for this. It has too many layers and variables.

BUT…..I have had lots of messages of people wanting to pay for the classes to support what I’m doing. I really appreciate this generosity and will gladly accept any size donations to my Venmo account (username: tateenglund). 100% of the donations made for my classes will go to directly to the teachers of my studio who have lost income. It’s a difficult time, and I need to be there for them.

Changing up my schedule for my live-streaming now

Changing up my schedule for my live-streaming now that my studio has been forced to close for a few weeks. I’ve added a few more to try and allow more people to take class. Click the link in my Bio and subscribe to my YouTube channel to take class and be notified about future class. I have a number of classes on my channel that you can start doing today. We will get through this! #community

As an alignment based teacher, my goal is to get t

As an alignment based teacher, my goal is to get traditional yoga postures to fit a students’ body, not to manipulate the body to fit a very specific alignment prompt. Just because some cues and positions work for certain bodies, doesn’t mean those same alignment cues will work for others. We have to be adaptable. We can’t keep teaching these postures as if they are cookie cutters. Every body is different. I try my best to educate people (sometimes to a fault 😂) so they can make informed decisions to make these poses work for them, not the other way around. #seattleyoga #pnwyoga #alignmentyoga #alignmentmattersanditdoesnt

The more I learn about how the body works, or what

The more I learn about how the body works, or what might be better for the body long term, the desire to get my body into extreme positions dwindles.
I am constantly asking myself the same question. Why? Why do I need to try to get my foot behind my head? Why do I need to force myself to suffer in a deep bind? Does my backbend need to be to my deepest?
Sometimes I still do these things. I think it’s great to see what the body can do. It’s human nature, but it’s not my default. My default is to do things that set me up for long term health rather than immediate gratification. My teaching reflects my own practice. It always has.
If you want to learn how to teach this amazing practice and explore yoga philosophy, join me this April for our next round of teacher training. @bonnieenglund and I will teach you to be a critical thinker, prepare you to confidently teach others, and share who you are and what yoga is to you.
I love these trainings and the relationships we build with our amazing trainees!

DM me for more details.

My favorite way of twisting. A big part of my prac

My favorite way of twisting. A big part of my practice and teaching is to allow the muscles to do most of the work with the assist of external leverage. There are a lot of reasons to use external leverage (i.e. use of arms, teacher adjustments), but my default is always to find the twist from the muscles that are twisting (obliques, lats, multifidae, etc) and if i want to, then add external leverage to possibly go deeper.
In all poses I want my body to be able to get itself in and out of postures. I feel this helps create a better active range of motion. We really can’t create more active range of motion without in turn creating more passive range of motion. But the same isn’t always the same with the opposite. Gaining more passive range of motion doesn’t necessarily correlate to more active range of motion.
Question @jason_crandell asks is “If I always need my arms to get my legs into lotus, can I really do lotus?” 🤔🤷‍♂️ 📷 by @bonnieenglund

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