prep poses

[Guest guest]

a prep pose let me just say is not allowed at a

traditional studio but....in the privacy of your own

home...<br><br>Wherever you are in the series that you are doing a prep

pose would be a pose to research (open)the part of the

body that the next pose addresses. For instance a half

lotus pose requires an open hip. Because i belong to

rhe right knee club i here would place both shins on

top of each other, parallel to each other with the

right knee on the left ankle and the right ankle on the

left knee. (both ankles and feet active and fully

engaged -this protect the ankle and knee because the

muscles hug the bone and maintains correct alignment)This

prep pose addresses the hip without at all getting

into the knee - one can bend forward on it. I am not

reccommending veering off from the traditional, but you asked.

The reason i have to do this IN the series (as

opposed to just doing it while talking on the phone for

instance) is that my muscles hurt without all the preceding

poses and all the following poses in place. That why a

series is magic. That is why ashtanga vinyasa yoga is

magic. I never have muscular discomfort after yoga asana

with a complete practice (and in addition when i have

enough green juice -it helps alkalinizing the body when

one has a lactic acid rush after

excercising).<br><br>I am not implying that the series is lacking - only

that being a western adult creates a specific

challenge - and the structure of my knees (knock at the top

bandy at the bottom) asks for intelligence in my lotus

pursuits. The muscles at the inside top of the knee are

weak and my joints are hyperextensive. The preceding

is the ideal profile for knee injury. I hope the

fundamentalists will see this prepping in context.<br><br>Once an

area is permanently sufficiently open the prepping is

discarded. Cool.