Push & Pull Upside Down!

About Anna

Dr. Anna Engels is a Co-Founder of Yoga Lab Studio in State College, PA, and creator of Sunny Get Up. She is a yoga teacher registered at the E-RYT 500 and YACEP levels with Yoga Alliance. Her yoga teaching and practice combines her background in psychology with a strong grounding in anatomy and functional movement to create intelligent and fun sequences that flow with the breath and connect you to your core. She has a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology, and her clinical interests and academic research focus on stress, anxiety, depression, and their associated patterns of brain activity using fMRI. She is also a photographer and loves traveling the world, capturing moments of beauty. She recently launched Sunny Get Up - a line of eco-friendly yoga pants with designs drawn from her nature photography - with the goal to raise money for environmental charities. She currently teaches yoga at Yoga Lab and in the Penn State Kinesiology Department.

Push & Pull Upside Down!

1/21/2018

I always get so FIRED UP studying with Lara Heimann! Just spent another great weekend at her latest 500hr Module-- Upper and Lower Extremity Anatomy & Therapeutics. I'm so excited to process and integrate everything I learned into my practice and teaching.

Here's a little tip - I asked Lara about ways to develop more "pull" strength in yoga. How about a handstand pushup?! The eccentric muscle action involved in controlling the descent is a great strengthener similar to starting in a pull-up and slowly lowering. And so much fun!

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Push & Pull Upside Down!

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