Yoga Pose For Spine Correction

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Misty L. Trepke

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Today's Yoga Pose: For Spine Correction

 

Tada-asana (The Mountain Pose)

 

Stand with the feet together. Extend your toes; don't grip the floor

or mat. Balance evenly on the front and the back and the sides of

the feet. Be active in the thighs to lift the knees. Do not push the

knees back. Rotate the pelvis back to take tailbone toward the

floor. Feel the spine lengthen out of the sacrum, stretching each

vertebra away from the vertebra below it. Lift the sternum. The

shoulders stay relaxed and down. Rotate the upper arms outward. The

palms of the hands face the thighs. As the neck stretches upward,

keep the neck, throat, and jaw relaxed. The chin is parallel to the

floor. Visualize a straight line running from your chin, to your

sternum, to your pubic bone. Soften your gaze; quiet your hearing;

relax your jaw. Breathe evenly and comfortably through your nose.

 

Comments:

Many common ailments and discomforts can be traced to poor posture.

If the spine is not properly aligned or if there is tightness or

stiffness in the back, the result is often an imbalance in the body.

When this imbalance becomes chronic many kinds of disorders arise in

the organs, glands and nervous system. Performing the tada-asana

allows one to observe one's posture closely and clearly recognize

those problems which get masked or ignored by day-to-day activities.

As the posture is held and the breath, mind and body is quieted

various effects will surface to indicate difficulties with the

spine. Favoring one foot over the other, shifting back and forth,

drooped shoulders, tightness in the neck and upper or lower back.

The proper execution and continual practice of the tada-asana along

with other postures helps to retrain the body to stand correctly and

reverse the negative effects of poor posture.

 

When the tada-asana is performed properly and the mind is focused

and free of distraction, the body is experienced as being rooted

firmly to the earth and as steady and motionless as a mountain.

 

 

Andrew Pacholyk LMT, MT-BC, CA

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