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Yoga Posture Basics : Reclined Bound Angle / Supported Butterfly Pose
This posture is a wonderful pose to integrate into your practice due to its restorative and restful effect on the body. Take your time to set it up, and enjoy! Reclined bound angle posture (supported butterfly pose) helps to open the chest, lungs, heart, abdomen, and pelvis. Its one of ...
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The Body is a Spiral
Myofascial Planes Over the last few posts, I’ve been exploring the “myo-fascial” lines, planes, or sheaths of the body. Be sure to check out my previous posts on the lateral plane, the dorsal plane, the ventral plane and the core to learn more. These planes are a wonderful way to understand how movement, ...
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Strengthen Your Core
Myofascial Sheaths Over the last couple of posts I’ve been exploring the “myo-fascial” lines, planes, or sheaths of the body in a series of posts. Be sure to check out my previous posts on the lateral plane, the dorsal plane, and the ventral plane to learn more. These planes are a wonderful ...
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Open the Ventral Plane
Myofascial Sheaths The “myo-fascial” lines, planes, or sheaths provide a helpful map when trying to understand how patterns of positive and negative stress relay and transfer through the structures of the body. In previous weeks I explored the lateral plane and the dorsal plane. Follow along in an exploration of ...
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Release the Back Body
Myofascial Planes The “myo-fascial” lines, planes, or sheaths provide a helpful map when trying to understand how patterns of positive and negative stress relay and transfer through the structures of the body. When studying the human structure we often name individual anatomical parts as if they’re separate from all other ...
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Release the Lateral Sheath
Myofascial Sheaths When studying and speaking of the human body we often name individual anatomical parts as if they are somehow separate from all other parts. This of course is not true; everything is deeply interconnected within the body. One of the ways anatomical structures connect to (and are affected ...
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Building Intelligence and Strength in the Feet and Legs for Stability and Grounding
The feet are the foundation of the body. The 33 joints and the 26 bones in the foot are constantly moving and making small articulations based on the forces the body is bearing. Ultimately any incongruence in our posture or alignment (day to day and in our asana practice) will show ...
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3 Breathing Exercises to Reduce Anxiety
The breath is an immediate doorway into discovering what is happening in the body and mind. Your breathing is a reflection of all kinds of systems in the body including the muscular, respiratory, cardiovascular, and neurological systems. The breath affects energy levels, your emotional state, and it’s in direct relationship ...
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Are you trying too hard in your practice?
Whether you’re practicing asana (the physical movements of yoga), or seated meditation, your experience arises through the filter of your sustained attention. The ancient yogis understood that through a deliberate cultivation of this attention, practitioners could experience the natural mind as radiant and clear. Yogis use the eight fold path ...
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The most important thing to use during your yoga practice
Connections between how we feel and the state of our breath have been demonstrated for thousands of years within yogic teachings and the ancient medical systems of Ayurveda and Chinese Medicine. Today there are endless western medical studies that further prove the positive effects of smooth and unrestricted breathing on ...
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