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Power Yoga Los Angeles
Come see why everyone is raving about yoga in Los Angeles.
Los Angeles and the surrounding area has become a modern day mecca for Yoga around the world perhaps it is because we have so many teachers and a demand for the benefits of Yoga. I have heard people even travelling from India to practice Yoga in Los Angeles. Whatever the cause Yoga in Hollywood, Los Angeles and Santa Monica, California is here to stay.
Here are some interesting concepts for Yoga practitioners to think about.
One of the
key elements of being flexible is to stretch warm. Never try and stretch
cold. Muscle just like steel or glass or any matter expands easier with
heat. In relation to endurance training flexibility is important so that
if you fall off of your mountain bike at high speed your body will go
into very flexible positions. If you are flexible instead of tearing ligaments,
muscle or fascia your body will flex first. Does that mean you will never
injure yourself? No, however you can decrease your chances dramatically
by stretching.
When we stretch it is important to understand that our main focus of stretch
is not on ligament or tendon. The stretch focus is on muscle and fascia.
Fascia is the connective tissue that surrounds muscles and allows them
to move freely over each other. Muscle and fascia can stretch up to 150
percent of it's volume. Tendon only stretches about 4 percent of it's
volume.
I have worked with many athletes including Diamond Dallas Page or DDP, Circque du Soleil acrobats, Fire Dancers, Triathletes, Tennis Pros, American Gladiators and a host of celebreties like, Penelope Cruz, Renee Zelleweger, Jean Claude Vanne Damne and many others the above celebrities are also in athletic condition so to me I consider them athletes. These athletes all benefit not only from flexibility but also from the endurance training of what we now call Power Yoga. It is an extremely vigorous "sweaty" style of Yoga based on Yoga from south indian posture sequencing strung together with breath and movement.
_ Steven Earth