SCIENCE YOU FEEL · YOGA THAT HEALS
Yoga is a feeling,
not just a shape.
Yoga Optimized is a complete system for understanding your body
and getting more from your yoga.
One 353-page book. One 63-video course.
Powerful on their own. Better together.
Yoga Optimized · A user’s guide to gravity
a problem hiding in plain sight
Your yoga teacher
cannot see you.
And even if they could, they cannot feel what you feel.
In a typical vinyasa class, one teacher may be guiding 20, 30, or even 40 students. You may spend only 25 seconds in a pose. Even the most skilled and caring teacher simply cannot see everything happening in every body.
And there is even more they cannot see.
They don’t know your entire history. Your old injuries. Your unique anatomy. Your limitations. Your movement patterns. How you slept last night. What hurts today. Or what you are actually feeling inside a pose.
Only you know what it feels like to live inside your body.
That’s why I created Yoga Optimized.
I’ve spent decades taking some of the most important knowledge from yoga, biomechanics and physiology and breaking it down into simple patterns and principles you can understand, remember and, most importantly, feel.
I sometimes joke that I created Yoga Optimized to get myself out of a job.
Because the goal isn’t to make you more dependent on a teacher.
The goal is to make you the expert on your own body.
To know when to go deeper and when to back off. Where to create more force and where to create less. How to create the stretch, strength, and stability you’re looking for without blindly forcing yourself into someone else’s idea of the perfect pose.
Your teacher can guide you. Yoga Optimized teaches you how to intelligently guide yourself.
Read the Science. See the Movement.
Read the book for depth. Watch the videos for precision. Combine both to transform your practice.
The Book
353 pages of beautifully illustrated knowledge you can return to for a lifetime.
The Yoga Optimized book will help you understand the principles behind better yoga and movement.
Complex ideas from biomechanics, physiology, philosophy, and yoga are broken down into simple patterns, principles, and illustrations that make them easy to understand and apply.
Keep it beside your mat. Study it at your own pace. Return to it whenever you want to understand not just what to do, but why.
The book gives you the map.
The Course
63 videos that bring the principles of Yoga Optimized to life in your own body.
Six sessions. Six families of poses:
Core Line Integration · Back Body Stretches · Front Body Stretches · Lateral Side Body Stretches · Medial Side Body Stretches · Relaxation Poses
Watch Eoin demonstrate the concepts, forces and sensations in real bodies, then practice them yourself until intellectual understanding becomes something you can actually feel.
Every book page Eoin references is embedded directly into the course, so you can see the exact figure he is explaining as he explains it.
The course turns the map into a felt experience.
WHAT STUDENTS SAY
The proof is in the practice.
If you want to have a PhD in how to understand your body and longevity in terms of using your body effectively without injury, you’ve got to take this course.
Heidi Bassett
CaymAn Islands
Yoga Optimized profoundly influenced my understanding of yoga and life.
JESSICA LIN
Complex biomechanics were made simple, fun, and actionable.
It changed the game for me.
Singapore
I thought my knee pain was just something I had to live with in Pigeon pose until Eoin showed me how to use DUO.
JULIA,
The Yoga Optimized course taught me how to stabilize my knee and to direct the stretch into my hip muscles without dumping my body weight onto my knee joint.
Munich, Germany
your teacher
Eoin Finn is an athlete, movement scientist, and philosopher who spent 27 years building a system no one else has built.
“At 57, I move better than I did at 27 or 30. Not because I’m an exception. Because I finally understood the system. I wouldn’t want my 27-year-old body back. The one I live in now functions better than the broken version I had back then.
What’s incredible is that DUO and Sensation-Guided Attunement didn’t just help me heal from a bad yoga knee injury back in 2000.
Over the years, I discovered that these principles apply far beyond the yoga mat, in sports and in life. As I get older, I’m not just becoming more flexible. I’m also stronger and more graceful.
I created Yoga Optimized to help you feel just as good in your body.
Happiness is best when shared.“– Eoin Finn
Eoin was not trying to revolutionize yoga. He was an obedient student, following the system faithfully, teaching what he’d been taught. Then in 2000, the system broke him. A serious knee injury forced him to stop. There’s a chapter in the Yoga Optimized book called My Knee Injury, The Greatest Gift.
In rehabilitation, he stopped chasing shapes. Not because progress stopped mattering, but because he discovered something more precise. He just wanted to walk again. Then practice again. Then feel the exact sensation of release in his hip in pigeon pose. In directing his attention to the felt experience rather than the endpoint, he discovered the mechanism that creates faster, safer, more sustainable progress than any shape-chasing system he had ever used. That mechanism became DUO.
Today at 57, Eoin moves better than he did at 27 or 50. He surfs, skateboards, lifts, and teaches athletes including MLB and NHL players, Olympians, professional surfers. He is not interested in telling people they’re too old, too stiff, or too broken. He has seen too many people prove that wrong.
Movement span is not fixed. It can be extended. He is living proof.
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students taught
years of practice
years teaching
years training teachers
beyond the mat
DUO doesn’t live on your mat.
It lives in everything you do.
May the force be with you. The forces we apply on the body today shape the body we live in tomorrow.
The same principle that protects your knee in pigeon pose is the same one that protects your lumbar spine in a deadlift. The same tension organization that creates stretch in your hamstrings generates power in a surf takeoff. Chapter 8 of the Yoga Optimized book applies DUO to:
“I have worked with MLB and NHL players, Olympians, and professional surfers. The principles are the same. The body doesn’t change its physics depending on what sport you play.”
– Eoin Finn
Deadlifts
page 336
Use DUO to transfer force from the arches of the feet to the crown.
Disperse compressive load rather than concentrating it in the spine.
Surfing
page 339
Use DUO to keep the spine elongated.
Reduce pressure on the lower back and create more efficient paddling.
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