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10 Great Reasons to Use a Camcorder in Yoga
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Leave a Comment - Professional athletes have done this for years to improve performance.
- Make it look graceful. You will see all these small movements you do which takes away from the grace. Trust me it will look better and feel better when you do not wiggle your toes in the lotus pose
- You can notice any imbalance in your body and correct it. As long as it is not in the skeleton and than it was good you saw it anyway so you can talk with a doctor
- Having a personal trainer costs a lot of money and camcorders are constantly dropping in price and even a webcam will give you some feedback.
- You have the possibility to upload to sites like Youtube and get comments from all over the world.
- You can very easily go back and see your own progress over time.
- It is a chance to accept yourself on how you look and the way your body is.
- A cheap way to get an out of body experience
- Share your experience with your friends and family
- It is fun
Chiropractic visit and x-rays
kyphosis - an increase in the thoracic curve. photo from x-ray original: johan flod
I went to a chiropractor today and it was very interesting. He made an x-ray of my back and we talked about training, yoga etc. My body have a skeletal construction winch is in a certain way and for example some of the discs in my back are not formed as they should be. The unbalance in my skeleton system makes my muscles work harder to correct for this.
my legs are equally long and the imbalance is in the spine itself. in the chest area the vertebrae are not shaped as they should and I have a tendency to compress my chest area forward. The lower backs first vertebrae is tilted to the left and that makes my lower part of the spine go to the left.
it was a big relief to see the x-rays and see how my spine actually looks in a relaxed posture. I was expecting a lot of sounds from my body when he started the treatment but there was almost none.I was recommended to sit in a chair which have this special rest for the knees and is called a kneeling chair. I am a bit sceptical about the kneeling chair since wikipedia basically says it is a failure.
I recommend people who have problems with their back to get a total check done by a doctor or chiropractor. It is
scoliosis - a lateral curvature , side twist. photo from x-ray original: Johan Flod
also important to understand the difference between relaxation in the muscles and how your skeleton looks. yoga will help your muscles to relax and that is much needed in between physical activity. The perfect examples you see in yoga magazines are people who also had the help from good genetics to start with. No matter how flexible you are the hard parts of the bone will not change.
video: shoulder stand sequence
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Leave a Comment this is part of my morning ritual and consists of the following asanas:
shavasana / corpse pose
sarvangasana /shoulder stand pose
halasana / plough pose
pashinee mudra / folded psychic attitude
pindasana ? / foetus in womb pose ?
kandharasana / shoulder pose
shavasana / corpse pose
video: ordinary headstand/sirshasana
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Leave a Comment Me doing an ordinary sirshasana/headstand pose, the first asana in my morning program. This asana should be followed by tadasana/palm tree pose and I will record this in another video.
video: documenting my lotus position and how my back looks in it
I have to go deep with my back and talk with doctors and experts so that I can teach the real deal to people. My first step today was to document with my video camera how much my back is curving and for this I choose the lotus pose.
and here how it looks from the back:
Next step will be to visit a back specialist. I had this done regularly when I was a teenager since they wanted to make sure my back was not getting worse.
yoga for people working with a computer
Have you noticed this feeling of hunching over in an office chair ? after 10 hours of work where you are so focused on the task at hand so you forget about your posture. this is maybe not a proper forward bend asana but it compresses the stomach and the lungs etc. yoga prescribes that every forward bending asana should be counter balanced by a backward bending asana. Bridge and the wheel pose are considered backward bending asanas as an example and now I am going to do them strictly every day for month to see if I notice a better posture and less neck pain ?
My research is to see if backward bending yoga poses will lead to a better posture and if I will feel better by doing this ? My theory is that office work in front of a computer is basically a forward bending yoga posture and in this way I have done a lot of forward bending postures in my days at the office :)
video diary: backbends against wall
I continue my journey towards learning backbends. Practice … practice … practice …..
Dancing as therapy
Dancing is something I have enjoyed through the years and since I stopped using alcohol I do not go to clubs so much any more. I remember how me and my friend used to watch Prodigy- everybody in the place and how we tried to mimic the dance steps. As we grow older the natural way of making a fool out of ourselves disappear and we start to analyse everything. So I challenge you to put on your favourite music and make a fool out of yourself !
the warm up for this was a 1,5 hour yoga session in the morning
video diary: backbend training
This practice will make my wrists stronger and more flexible so they do not get a shock when I come down backwards in the full backbend.
At an early age I got interested in Buddhism and the prince who left his kingdom in the search for truth. How can I apply this story to my own life ? to be able to sit I took up the study of yoga. Is there a contradiction between yoga and science ? Sure we can get a theoretical understanding through books, but without the experience we are stuck. Why is it so hard to practice non-violence when the mosquito is landing on my neck ?
