Information
contained here is not given to replace a doctors medical advice. Consult
your physician before beginning this or any exercise routine.
Basically
if you experience sharp pains when you are doing this or any pose ease
up a little. The "no pain no gain" mentality does not apply
to Yoga.
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.
Tendon
attaches muscle to bone, and the degree of stretch should be litmited
there as well.
Ligament
is a bone to bone attachment and should not be stretched extensively.
Like the wooden bar in a ballet class, that dancers stretch over. Would
one try to make that stabilizer bar extremely flexible? Of course not
it would not be able to support the weight of a dancer stretching on it.
The bar should be a little fexible but not too much.
There
is strength in yielding as the Taoists would say. We know this all too
well here in California, the earthquake capital of the world.
One
of the key ways to know if you are stretching the wrong area is that your
body will give a trigger pain. Typically a sharp electrical feeling.
Vinyasa means movement. Unlike a Yoga posture this is more of a sequence
of moving poses.
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Understanding internal and external rotation
While in
Down dog it may get confusing so imagine a clock under your right
hand. For correct rotation spin your right elbow clock wise and your
left of course counter clock wise. Pictures at right show
correct rotation. If not the lesser tubercle can collide with the
Coracoid process and cause potential damage and or irritation to the acromioclavicular (shoulder)
joint. Note, it is not as critical when the arms are below the
shoulder pointing down. It is taught to keep the external rotation
to create a healthy and safe pattern of movement.
External rotation displayed above. Below is still considered
external rotation as well.
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