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Seated yoga is helping those with disabilities get active and make connections 'At the moment 99% of the images you see representing yoga, are of hypermobile women contorting themselves into impossible shapes.'

The idea that everything from spoons to stones is conscious is gaining academic credibility “If you think about consciousness long enough, you either become a panpsychist or you go into administration.”

What is Fascia?
Fascia is tough connective tissue that creates a 3-dimensional web extending without interruption from head to toe. Fascia surrounds and infuses every muscle, bone, nerve, blood vessel, and organ, all the way down to the cellular level.

The fascial system affects every system and function in your body- musculoskeletal, neurological, metabolic, etc. The white, glistening fibers you see when you pull a piece of meat apart or when you pull chicken skin away is fascia.

What is Fascia made of ?
Fascia consists of a complex which has three parts:
1. Elastin fibers - This is the elastic and stretchable part of the complex.

2. Collagen fibers - These fibers are extremely tough and give support to the
structure.

3. Ground substance/matrix: A gelatinous like substance that transports metabolic
material throughout the body

What does fascia do?
The fascial system generally supports, stabilizes, and cushions. Fascia creates separation between vessels, organs, bones, and muscles. It creates space through which delicate nerves, blood vessels, and fluids can pass.

What are Fascial Restrictions?
In a healthy state, the collagen fibers wrap around the elastic fibers in a relaxed, wavy configuration. Trauma, repetitive motion, inflammation, or poor posture can cause the fascia to become solidified and shortened. These thickened areas are referred to as a fascial restriction. Fascial restrictions have the capacity of creating up to 2,000 pounds of pressure per square inch in a restricted area. That crushing pressure can compromise any physiological system in the body resulting in pain and dysfunction.

The fascia throughout the body is all interconnected like the yarn in a sweater or a complex spider web. A restriction in one area of the body creates tension throughout this web pulling on other distant structures. This explains why some people may have pain that appears unrelated to their original injury. Furthermore, myofascial restrictions do not show up on common standardized tests such as x-rays, MRI, CAT scans, etc.

Fascial restrictions can pull the body out of its normal alignment, compressing joint surfaces and bulging disks, resulting in pain, loss of motion, and weakness.

Info collected from Spine - Health, Mayo Clinic, NIH & Medterms
Art by Dan Beckemeyer

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Pratyahara: Looking Within - Reset.me With pratyahara, the fifth limb of yoga on the royal road to awakening, the energy moves inward so as to gradually uncover the full radiance of our deepest Self. We shed layer after layer of mind as attention is continually redirected to the depths within, eventually piercing through the restless su...

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Be present

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Mahamudra, (maha = great, mudra = sacred gesture) demonstrated by the great Krishnamacharya.
Mahamudra is a highly regarded asana that is practiced at the end of one’s vinyasa. Mahamudra is not the same as a seated forward bend in that the spine is kept straight.

Mahamudra is only mahamudra where there are all three bandha active. As in all asana the breath is the gage (or guru). That is: posture is measured by the number of breaths and breath ratio that can be accomplished without struggle. “Obey your breath. Obey your guru”.

Bandha is placed in the retentions after inhalation and exhalation without compromising the easy continuity of breath. Retentions with bandha can lengthen as our practice strengthens; or shorten when there is less strength.

This asana is good during pregnancy. It is very strengthening to the whole body to carry baby before & after birth.

It is the great sacred gesture because in jalandhara bandha the head and mind give over to their source, the Hridaya heart in the descending energy of receptivity. While the strength of lower bandha, mulabandha and uddiyanabandha serve the heart in the ascending energy of strength. Where the descending and ascending energies are perfectly merged is the heart’s location, Hridaya. From here the whole body / mind arise in the perfect flow of the heart’s energy, spiraling Prana / nurturing like a flower unfolding in all directions as the whole body. This is kundalini.

Praised in the text hathayogaoradapika it is said that mahamudra is like hitting kundalini with a stick, “she straightens”. However that text is created by a misogynist male cult that plagiarized previous ancient Tantras to justify their view of dominance over nature and the feminine. Sublimating the “so called lower” chakras to “awaken” so called higher, this attitude has prevailed, dominated and toxified yoga teaching and public behavioral patterning to this day.

No, kundalini is only awakened through participation in the perfect collaboration of female and male polarity, one given to the other, one empowering the other. strength that is utterly receptive the heart flows. Kundalini arises from the heart not the base.

Mahamudra, (maha = great, mudra = sacred gesture) demonstrated by the great Krishnamacharya.

Mahamudra is a highly regarded asana that is practiced at the end of one’s vinyasa. Mahamudra is not the same as a seated forward bend in that the spine is kept straight.

Mahamudra is only mahamudra where there are all three bandha active. As in all asana the breath is the gage (or guru). That is: posture is measured by the number of breaths and breath ratio that can be accomplished without struggle. “Obey your breath. Obey your guru”.

Bandha is placed in the retentions after inhalation and exhalation without compromising the easy continuity of breath. Retentions with bandha can lengthen as our practice strengthens; or shorten when there is less strength.

This asana is good during pregnancy. It is very strengthening to the whole body to carry baby before & after birth.

It is the great sacred gesture because in jalandhara bandha the head and mind give over to their source, the Hridaya heart in the descending energy of receptivity. While the strength of lower bandha, mulabandha and uddiyanabandha serve the heart in the ascending energy of strength. Where the descending and ascending energies are perfectly merged is the heart’s location, Hridaya. From here the whole body / mind arise in the perfect flow of the heart’s energy, spiraling Prana / nurturing like a flower unfolding in all directions as the whole body. This is kundalini.

Praised in the text hathayogaoradapika it is said that mahamudra is like hitting kundalini with a stick, “she straightens”. However that text is created by a misogynist male cult that plagiarized previous ancient Tantras to justify their view of dominance over nature and the feminine. Sublimating the “so called lower” chakras to “awaken” so called higher, this attitude has prevailed, dominated and toxified yoga teaching and public behavioral patterning to this day.

No, kundalini is only awakened through participation in the perfect collaboration of female and male polarity, one given to the other, one empowering the other. strength that is utterly receptive the heart flows. Kundalini arises from the heart not the base.

For amusement.
This is why I don't teach online.

Yoga In Isolation - British Comedy Guide A yoga instructor struggles to create a feeling of zen in the face of the class's technological difficulties.