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Happy Body: Yoga from Head to Toe
HOW DOES YOUR BODY FEEL ON A DAILY BASIS?Do you feel discomfort somewhere in your body? Do you feel stable? Do you move with grace and ease? Do you have a feeling of lightness in your body? How well do you handle change? According to the yoga tradition, the answers to those questions define our health and wellness. Your yoga practice is meant to make you structurally stable, enable you to move with grace and ease, free you from physical suffering and enable you to withstand changing circumstances. HOW DO WE DO IT IN THIS YOGA SERIES?WE STRENGTHEN THE MUSCLES THAT SUPPORT ALL MAJOR JOINTSToo often in yoga practice flexibility is being advanced at the expense of stability. Excessive stretching is rarely useful because it leads to overall structural instability, overworked muscles that have to both move the body and hold it together, sacroiliac joint pain, dislocations and so on. Instead, we want to focus on strengthening the muscles that help the body maintain its structural integrity, so that it stays properly balanced both at rest and in motion. WE MOVE IN AND OUT OF POSES BEFORE HOLDING THEMBy moving in and out of the pose we increase circulation to larger skeletal muscles and surrounding tissues. Muscles are designed to contract and relax in succession; doing repetitive movements in a yoga practice helps us to dynamically warm up the body, lubricate our connective tissues (fascia, joints, ligament, etc.), minimize the risk of injury, develop healthy muscle tone, release chronic muscle contraction and improve range of motion. WE USE POSE ADAPTATIONS TO TARGET SPECIFIC BODY AREASEvery pose has a classical form; those are the images that we are used to seeing in yoga publications and doing in yoga classes. But in many poses we can change the form slightly by repositioning the arms or legs, for example, creating a Pose Adaptation. By altering the form of the pose we can achieve a drastically different structural effect and target specific body area with more precision. WE INCREASE AWARENESS OF THE BODY, MOVEMENT AND BREATHBy paying attention to how our body feels at every point of the practice, we learn to differentiate between different types of sensations. This helps us better understand our physical, physiological and mental-emotional responses, and, eventually, regulate them. ABOUT THE SERIESThis yoga series will help you Get rid of physical aches and pains, Become more stable and balanced, Move with grace and ease, Feel more vibrant and resilient. You can do the practices in order for a complete tour of your body or choose the ones you need most. THIS YOGA SERIES IS FOR YOU IF YOU:1. Experience occasional tension somewhere in your body;2. Sit a lot during the day;3. Want to use yoga to work with each body part methodically and systematically;4. Dont have a lot of time and need a short movement practice;5. Want to understand which movements can help specific body areas and why. WHAT YOU GETThis series consists of 15 chapters. Each chapter introduces a specific body area (like neck or back, hips or knees) and includes an introductory video about it and a 20 to 40-minute yoga practice specifically for that area. Each chapter also features an in-depth article (or two!) with reasoning for why we do what we do in our yoga practice, and how to make it more effective. We put all those articles together into a handy 67-page pdf file to give you a fuller picture of how your body works, and how you can take care of it with your yoga practice. HOW IT WORKSYou can do the practices included in this series in order, or pick and choose the ones you need most. In each practice we will use movement, breath and awareness to attend to every part of your body, so that your entire structure becomes more stable and your movement more fluid, so that you get rid of physical discomfort, and continue to cultivate physical agility and resilience. WHAT TO FOCUS ONWhen you follow the videos, please be sure to pay attention to small details and specific instructionsin yoga how you do movements is just as important as what you do. You will also need to move with your breath and keep your attention focused on the target area to avoid injury and get the most out of each pose. Try to stay present with your experience and notice how each movement impacts the body. And if you experience pain while attempting any movementstop, evaluate, skip it for the time being, and rest in a comfortable position for few breaths before you continue. You can try it again next time and see if your sensations change. PLEASE NOTEThe practices in this yoga series are intentionally short to make it easier for you to fit them into your day. These practices are meant to oil up your entire body, so to speak, NOT to address ongoing chronic physical challenges in specific areas.
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