shaping up
kim on 2:11 pm May 13th, 2008 / 1 Comment »
like all animals, humans conform to the environments they live in. specifically, we conform to this shape
more than any other in our lives. it’s very likely that you are in this shape more hours than you walk or sleep combined.
that’s where yoga postures come in. the iyengar method of yoga practice pays a lot of attention to detail, and the more advanced you get, the more it suggests you drop into this pose
from a standing position. since we know that for every action there is an equal and opposite one, we could say that wheel pose, or urdhva dhanurasana, creates a shape opposite to hold ourselves most of the time outside of yoga class.
and since yoga and other mind-stilling practice are rooted in the concept of the middle path of balance, this pose looks like a nice, yogic way to reach mind/body balance.
there are a lot of other poses to create openness in the chest and abdomen like wheel pose does. ask your yoga teacher this week about these poses.
On May 14th, 2008 at 7:02 am yogi beer Said:
personally, i’ll take the chair. . .