Sentences with phrase «in backbends»

«Practitioners can learn within the laboratory of the pose all the actions necessary to avoid compression in their lower backs in backbending,» Apt says.

When you squeeze your buttocks in a backbend (like bridge / wheel), you not only put more pressure on the lower back, but you also potentially disengage the abdominal muscles.

On the other hand, because we're so closely working into the spine in backbends, there's potential for injury.

There's a great divide among yoga teachers about the correct way to use the glutes in backbends.

Like the Grippers, the Peacemakers believe that engaging the glutes has the potential to help the average yogi, so they ask, «Isn't there a way to contract the gluteal muscles in backbends without allowing the thighs to fly outward?

The lift and support from the straps in backbends allow you to melt while being held up so that you can really open and release.

In this brief yoga video, Doug Keller shows a simple alignment technique to train yourself - and / or your students - to maintain healthy neck alignment in backbends.

If you allow your legs to roll outward in a backbend, (like locust, cobra, wheel and bow) what you end up doing to your pelvis and sacrum will leave your body aching for all the wrong reasons.

Your partner can help you learn about the correct action of the pelvis in a backbend.

They point you to the vital force that holds you steady in your asana, keeps you upright in your standing poses, lends vitality in backbends, and enables you to maintain balance.

It illuminates the habitual patterns that often interfere with an optimal experience in backbends.

That cue has its place: it protects the vulnerable lumbar spine from arcing excessively in backbends.

So, how do you help students who may have difficulties in, or be the most vulnerable in backbends?

In backbending yoga postures we work deeply into the spine, while also opening up the heart space.

This minor muscle is a major player in backbends.

«To be successful in a backbends you bring earth, you bring water, you bring fire, and you bring heart,» Gates says.

In the backbend sequence, you surrender to it (fifth chakra).

While the front of the body is being stretched in backbends (specifically the thighs, front groins, belly, chest and armpits), we should continue to focus our students» attention on the back torso.

Slowly work toward finding more freedom in the backbend.

Also check out Olga's course on YogaUOnline: Avoiding Yoga Injuries: Common Alignment Mistakes in Backbends and Lateral Bends.

Undaunted, the Soft Pedaler would counter that contracting the glutes is bad in backbends for all people.

(The sweeping arc of the upper body that you see in backbends is another illusion; the whole upper back looks as if it's bending, but the lift of the rib cage is what catches your eye.)

Another challenge in backbending the thoracic region is that it's easy to overuse some parts of your spine and underuse others.

They agree with the Soft Pedalers that hardening the glutes can prevent superflexible yogis from reaching their full potential in backbends, but they also note a weakness in their other arguments: Every one of them is based on the assumption that tightening the buttocks will pull the thighs apart and turn them out.

The upper fibers of the gluteus maximus produce the most abduction and external rotation, and the lower fibers produce the most extension; so if you contract your gluteal region in backbends, you should focus on tightening the lower half and keeping the upper half soft.

We observed the kidney area being squeezed in backbends, the stomach being compressed in forward bends, and the ribs and lungs being gracefully stretched in side - bending actions.

Recreate this action in all backbends.

A partner can help you learn about the correct action of the top thighs in a backbend.

Progression Two: This progression allows you to get comfortable with your head below your heart in a backbend position.

It's important to learn to coordinate these actions in your chest and pelvis to avoid compressing the spine in any backbend, from the most basic to the most advanced.

Teachers in the Gripper camp seem to see only the positive effects of contracting the glutes in backbends.

Case closed, it would seem: You should obviously contract your gluteal muscles in backbends, right?

The body might be in a backbend, but the generous use of blankets, blocks, and bolsters make the stretch passive.

This helps broaden and lengthen your lower back and sacrum (the downward - facing triangular bone at the back of your pelvis) to protect it in a backbend.

If the idea of propping yourself up in a backbend or twisting and binding is a little too intimidating, fear not.

We can teach students how to e.g. distribute the curve all along the back in a backbend: from the neck, through the upper back, into the lower back so we create equal contraction and engagement in all the posterior back muscles.

People who have tight hip flexors (the muscles that pull the thighs toward the chest) can benefit from contracting their gluteals in a backbend, if they do it the right way.