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A Student's Story

5/7/2015

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One of my students shared a great success story with me yesterday.  This lady, we will call her Ann, (not her real name) participates in my Stretch and Flex water aerobics class and my Chair Yoga classes.  Ann has a rose bush garden.  The roses have become overgrown over the past years as physically Ann has not been able to trim the bushes.  This week, she went out to the garden, cut all the dead branches off and trimmed the live ones!  Ann attributes this energy and ability to her participation in water aerobics and the yoga!  What a great story!
Do you have a story you would like to share?

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Standing Forward Fold - Uttanasana

5/4/2015

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We use Uttasana or Stand Forward Fold multiple times throughout our class practice.  It is used during Sun Salutation, moving from floor to standing or standing to floor and to move from pose to pose.  I was taught to fold at the hips with legs straight like the person on the left in the following illustration.  When I took some teacher training specifically geared to anatomy and yoga, I learned to practice Forward Folds with knees bent like the person on the right of the illustration. I find it interesting that even leading journals and web sites like Yoga Journal teach the Forward Fold with straight legs. This illustration from www.squencewiz.org, a website for yoga teachers, illustrates the differences between the two positions.  The bent knee  position is safer on the sacroiliac joint.  From my own practice, I know that the straight leg position puts stress on the fascia that run down the back of the legs.  These fascia also connect to the fascia along the bottom of the feet.  As we stress the leg fascia, the feet fascia also become stressed.  If we already have plantar fasciitis it may be inflamed. Even if we do not, we may find the fascia of our feet complaining with some pain. 
I teach the bent knee position. I have found it less stressful on my legs/feet and my lower back.  I also feel that more of my students are able to maintain the bent knee position and therefore feel more successful.  Hope this helps your personal practice. 
Feel free to give me feedback.

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from squencewiz.org "To Many Asymmetrical Poses Can Create Sacroiliac Joint Issues"

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