 |
  |
 |
|
|
|||||||||
|
|||||||||
Site Areas  |
store | | | articles | | | forums | | | studios | | | vacations |
|
yoga | massage | fitness | wellness | meditation |
|
|
For future visits, link to "http://www.YogiSource.com/forums".
Make a new bookmark.
Tell your friends so they can find us and you!
Coming soon ... exciting new changes for our website, now at YogiSource.com.
 Has anyone seen my feet?Moderators: Moderators Jump to page : 1 Now viewing page 1 [25 messages per page] | View previous thread :: View next thread |
| Yoga -> Iyengar Yoga | Message format |
Orbilia |
| ||
My Iyengar teacher was on a foot fetish last night. I now know I don't stand correctly and my brain understands what to do to be right in the pose. My feet haven't a clue however and feel like leaving home this morning  How in heavens one pulls ones metacarpels back is a physiological mystery even though I've seen it done. As for getting the two sides of one's calf muscles even with nice even creases each side....  Fee Edited by Orbilia 2006-06-27 9:31 AM | |||
| |||
| tourist |
| ||
Expert Yogi Posts: 8442      | I know what you mean. I think I have the metatarsal action going now and am torturing my own students with it  but it took some time - like years  As for the calf muscle, my Hellerworker is in charge of that - I don't think I will be able to make that happen on my own. She has done wonders with my lordosis so I have faith that if I pay her enough and go through enough agony, this too will happen  My claim to foot fame is that I can wiggle my baby toe without moving any of my other toes. But I learned that in high school when I really had nothing better to do with my time | ||
| |||
| Orbilia |
| ||
| I bet you wiggle your little toes whenever you feel your students aren't listening, don't you?! Fee | |||
| |||
| bstqltmkr |
| ||
| |||
| Nick |
| ||
 Location: London, England | Hi Glenda, How about a pair of teloscopic heels, which you can press a button on, and the heels come out, like the shoes that the evil russian agent tried to kill sean connery with in one of the bond films-except when she tapped her heels, daggers came out of the front of the shoe. Maybe you could incorporate that as well, to keep your partner alert  Nick | ||
| |||
| Debby |
| ||
| |||
| Nick |
| ||
Location: London, England | Hi Debby, And who's you're favourite Bond? And Bond girl? just checking I think my favourite bond girl is the one who kills the guy by wrapping her legs around his neck-proving I'm bacically just a pervert in sheeps clothing, but there you go Take care Nick | ||
| |||
| Orbilia |
| ||
| |||
| Orbilia |
| ||
| We knew this already about you, Nick ;-) Fee Nick - 2006-06-28 11:53 PM Hi Debby, And who's you're favourite Bond? And Bond girl? just checking I think my favourite bond girl is the one who kills the guy by wrapping her legs around his neck-proving I'm bacically just a pervert in sheeps clothing, but there you go Take care Nick | |||
| |||
| Nick |
| ||
Location: London, England | Hi Fi, I nknow I'm going to be sorry I asked, but what do you mean by drawing back the metatarsals? Is this the instruction used to get the student to squeeze the floor with the feet (makes us more powerful). Was the objective to get you to use the muscles on the the sole of the foot and the calf muscles to create a better foundation for posture and movement? I use the instruction to squeeze the floor all the time in my classes and in my practice, but am having difficulty visualizing the metatarsals going back-chiefly because this is not physically possible Not unless you kick something with sufficient force to drive the metatarsal back into the cuboid or cuneiform bones. Thiws may be why you have difficulty performing the action-people that apear to be able to do it, are actually visulaizing it in a different way and are actually performing a different action. Even if you could do it, it would be a foolish thing to do, making the foot stiff and uncompliant, unable to adapt, excessive joint compression, and changes in your overall posture to compensate for the loss of a functional foot. So don't worry if you don't get it! Take care Nick | ||
| |||
| Orbilia |
| ||
| Oh, you can see it happen when it's done. I think it's described as drawing back as that's what it looks like. I'm sure that the actual action is probably something different which is why my feet are saying "What?!" when my brain talks to them Tourist will probably expand on this but as far as I've grasped so far : Stand in Tadasana and lift the toes off the floor. This lifts the arches and aids getting the body weight even on both sides of the heel and on the joint at the base of the big toe. Press the outer heel into the inner heel. Lower the toes without dropping the arches or allowing the inner ankles to drop inward. Accurate posture should result in the inner thighs spiralling outward and the head of the femurs being sucked in. It should also aid in lifting the knees up and back so opening the back of the knee. At the same time, the muscle bundles in the calf (left and right) should be even, as should the indentations between the muscle groups on the sides of the calves. I beleive the main aim overall is to get your feet totally rooted to the floor so that all standing postures start from a solid base and all leg joints are protected from shear forces, e.g. during the twist in triangle pose. I have to say that this is what I find totally amazing about Iyengar as compared with Sivananda, the attention to minute parts of the body in incredible levels of detail. I would never have thought that I would be learning to control areas of my body as small as 2 inches diameter which seems to be the case with all the work I've been doing in class on my inner groins for example. Fee | |||
| |||
| tourist |
| ||
Expert Yogi Posts: 8442 | |||
| |||
| Nick |
| ||
Location: London, England | |||
| |||
| bstqltmkr |
| ||
| |||
| Debby |
| ||
Nick - 2006-06-27 4:53 PM Hi Debby, And who's you're favourite Bond? And Bond girl? just checking I think my favourite bond girl is the one who kills the guy by wrapping her legs around his neck-proving I'm bacically just a pervert in sheeps clothing, but there you go Take care Nick Nick My favorite James Bond is Sean Connery. (of course) Bond girl? OK I would much rather look at Sean than the women I think the moving you're talking about is the one with Jimmy Dean? Was that Diamonds are Forever or am I getting them mixed up. You are obvious an 007 fan also, huh? Deb Edited by Debby 2006-06-30 3:34 PM | |||
| |||
| Nick |
| ||
Location: London, England | Hi Debby, I am a Bond fan, but only small time-dont know the names of all the actors-plus I was really put off by the last one I saw, which had the cheesiest lines that I have ever encountered-fair put me off seeing any films in future-no doubt i will relent Nick | ||
| |||
| Debby |
| ||
| |||
| Nick |
| ||
Location: London, England | Hi Debby, You are quite right there is no such thing as pulling the metacarpals back-it may be one of those descriptrions yoga teachers use to get a difficult topic across to their students-but I think that it is misleading. All one needs to teach is to put a towel underneath the feet, and pull the towel back towards the heel with the toes-only slightly, it should just be the start of the movement, not too much muscle activation. This sets in train the proper activation of the muscles, where as pulling the metatarsals back does not-this is botrh an indication of the teacher's ignorance and is also detrimental to the student's health (i am now donning a bullet-proof jacket! ). saying words like metatarsal may convince the student that that the teacher is competent anatomically, but all it says to me is that they are arrogant, ignorant, and dangerous-as it would to anybody who has gone into some depth in the study of the human body-it is insulting both to the student and to yoga itself. Take care Nick | ||
| |||
| Jump to page : 1 Now viewing page 1 [25 messages per page] |
| Search this forum Printer friendly version E-mail a link to this thread |
| (Delete all cookies set by this site) | |