Fourth Interview Questions

1) What is the best way in practicing Vinyasa yoga to reduce stress levels?

2) I have been told before the corpse pose (savasana) is one of the best poses for stress reduction, but how does it help with stress if all you do is lay down on your back and do nothing?

3) Twists were mentioned in the past to help as well, but how necessarily does it help?

4) Open heart poses had been stated to also help reduce stress, but how does it do just that on a physiological  level ?

5) Shoulder stands were mentioned by another yoga teacher to reduce stress on a physiological basis, would you agree with that? If so, can you explain how they help?

6)  How can one focus on reducing stress and focus on themselves rather than get too caught up in maintaining a pose during a practice?

7) Do balancing poses have any merit to reducing stress? If so how?

8) Based off of your description to the previous answer, which balancing poses are best in context to the last question?

9) What are the best poses to help improve alignment?

10) Throughout viewings of yoga testimonials, it seems like the effects of differ from person to person in regards to how much stress they feel they lost, is this the problem of the student or an inconsistency in results? Explain.

11) I have read in articles that deepening a pose can help reduce stress, but how does one necessarily deepen a pose?

12) Based off of your previous answer to how to deepen a pose, which poses are best to deepen in order to reduce muscle tension since muscle tension is a sign of stress?

13) What is the most effective way to breathe throughout a yoga practice?

14) How does this different method of breathing help the body?

15) Are there different types of breathing styles in yoga? If so what are they called and what are the effects of each on the body?

16) What is the purpose of child's pose because to my understanding, it is simply a pose for taking a break,, but I want to know if it has any beneficial factor to reducing stress?

17) How often would you say it be recommended for a person to go to a yoga class in order to best reduce their stress? Why?

18) In terms of the environment in which stress is lost, what is the difference between classes at the gym versus classes in a studio?

19) Meditation has been mentioned in several articles to help with stress loss, would you agree with that statement? If so, why do you think meditation helps with stress loss?

20) What are the best poses for a person to meditate?