135: Yoga as Personalized Medicine?!: Research Roundup

As both yoga teachers and practitioners it is important to understand how to take general instruction and use it to cater to your personal needs. In this episode, hosts Tiffany and Katja talk about recent research on personalized medicine and training, discuss how wearables and data collection play into individualized training programs, and relate current research findings to personalized yoga approaches.

Listen to this episode to learn about the history and trends of individualized medicine and training, how to know which data to collect, why body awareness is important in individualization, and how to take this perspective into account in a group class.

“Knowing that this topic is a thing in sports science and medicine at the moment reiterates what we as yoga teachers have been preaching for a long time and that is to cater to the individual in front of you.” – Katja Bartsch

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“Instilling this empowerment of my body awareness is such core part of what we do as yoga teachers and so important because this is where I can really tune in and sense and feel in a different way the changes that are happening.” – Tiffany Cruikshank

Show Notes:

• What is the history of personalized medicine, training, and yoga [2:04]
• Factors to consider [8:31]
• Tracking and evaluating data [12:12]
• Current research and potential downsides [20:37]
• How to individualize a group class [35:32]
• Recap [37:49]

Links Mentioned:

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“There are many other things in each given session we have with someone that are influencing their experience and we cannot put all of those factors on our shoulders.” – Katja Bartsch