Side-bending

Families of Yoga Poses: Side Bending

Families of Yoga Poses: Side Bending

by | Jul 15, 2013 | Anatomy, Families of Poses, Side-bending, XPoses, Yoga practices

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Stretching the sides of your body, particularly hips, waist, rib cage, shoulder blades and arms, has benefits for your inner and outer body. In almost any yoga workout, you’ll find simple poses like triangle pose (trikonasana) or side flank stretch (parsvakonasana) enjoyable just because they open up the sides of your body so well.
I’ve heard the notion that the sides of our bodies are lonely parts. I get that. […]

Side Wise

by | Apr 10, 2013 | Anatomy, Side-bending, XPoses, Yoga practices, Yoga teaching 

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This week I came up with a sequence I enjoy doing and teaching. The theme is all about stretching the sides of your body, particularly hips, waist, rib cage, shoulder blades and arms.
Somewhere along my yoga travels, I heard an expression that I like: ” the sides of our bodies are the lonely parts”. I get that. If you think of all the ways a body can move – bending forward, backward, rotating – then, sideways bends are most unfamiliar movements. […]