photo credit: Paul Grilley
Cueing with X-Ray Eyes: What does this mean?
- Cue as if you can see through the student to their skeleton.
- Ignore flesh.
- Look through to the spine.
- Work the room. Look from the side. Turn around and SEE your students without the mirror.
For yoga and Pilates teachers ~ this will come pretty easily. But it does help to go back to these skills and look at them specifically with regards to functional fitness.
“Rise up as if you are filled with little bubbles…molecules…make good contact with the ground (with your foot, or your sitz bones, or your palms), but now ENGAGE and lift, so that all the little molecules of air can best bounce around you and up off of you.”
When you move to the side of your students, and cue with X-ray Eyes, you see an immediate change in posture – everyone suddenly looks stronger but lighter. Their spine falls into natural alignment instead or leaning forward or getting a sway back, or over-tucking their pelvis.
View them as if their flesh were not there. Look straight through. TELL them what you are doing so you don’t seem creepy! Picture the bones, and notice if they are stacked in their most efficient, most stable way.
Ignore the flesh. Someone with a round butt might look like they are arching, but they are not. Someone with a flat butt looks like they are tucked, but they are not. Watch for the bones instead.
Check their feet. They might give you a good idea of what’s happening up above – if they are balanced throughout, their feet and ankles should become much better aligned.
Using X-Ray Eyes improves client retention by eliminating strain that might be created by common cues that ask all students to do the same thing, even though not all skeletons are the same.
mind.body.train.
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