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    Location: London, England | Hi John, I think Jonathon summed it up nice and succinctly-might have to borrow that mate, well done  Personally, I cannot see any good basis for not allowing students to deviate from a sequence-it doesn't make any sense, anatomically, or educationally. if you want someone to learn something, you tailor the education according to their physical and mental make-up. In Victorian times, The teacher may have got the students to repeat a sentence or sum after them, and then beaten them if they couldn't do it in the manner prescribed (the good old days ). So for me, mysore is just a control mechanism whereby students are made to feel stupid and inferior, or clever and superior, by virtue of nothing more than genetics and luck. So you carry on, don't be subordinate to a form of teaching which is outdated and wrong! Nick | ||
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Nick - 2007-09-04 9:41 AM I think Jonathon summed it up nice and succinctly-might have to borrow that mate, well done You're welcome. Borrow away. I taught your core strength routine this morning at an Iyengar teachers gathering, which impressed everyone and I gave you no credit at all. I agree that there is really no need to stop a student at a specific pose in the primary series. What with my recent lack of practise (and sleep) due to baby Charlie, I'm lucky if I can achieve Paschimottasana C on a good day Following the traditional rules, that would be one short primary series for me Jonathon | |||
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Location: London, England | Hi Jonathon, I'd do you for patent violation, but unfortunately I didn't invent it Oh well. I'll get you if you tell any one about the sleeping baby trick though nick | ||
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| so now would be a bad time to tell you about my new website then: www.jonniesbabytips.com | |||
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| It hurts my abs even reading it | |||
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Location: London, England | Hi Jonathon, Muscle memory? Nick | ||
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Location: London, England | Hwy there, In all likeleyhood, what will happen intially is that you won't be able to keep your pelvis and shoulders parallel to the floor, so that your spine will twist. Try to develop the ability to keep them parallel, and this is where the exercise really comes into its own. When this happens, you will develop the ability to practise yoga postures with the same aim or ethos-the ability to demonstrate perfect spinal posture under great duress, with the added benfit of extra flexibility of the shoulders, arms, hips and legs. Have fun in the morning! Although, I don't think the fun happens until your can keep those hips and shoulders parallel to the floor and the spine in neutral! Nick | ||
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Location: London, England | Hi Eric, I wish! Nick | ||
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Location: London, England | Hi Eric, Good stuff-now hit those core muscles with a baseball bat Nick | ||
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Location: London, England | Hi Therago, You aren't necessarily doing it wrong-it's a core stability exercise, but core stability is basically a myth! On this planet, the stability of our 'periphery'-the arms and legs-is equally vital-in tree pose, doesn't matter how functional your core is, if your ankle has been injured, you will fall over. In a handstand, if your wrist is less than functional, you will fall over. So, assuming you are doing the exercise correctly, the strain on your knees may be perfectly normal, and the benefits of the posture will still come-in fact, your attention is being drawn to areas of yuor body which you may not have even realized were weak, and the exercise is therefore increasing your awareness, and removing weaknesses. I remember I fell off my bike and for about a year, the left knee always got tired first, which I'd twisted in the accident. The truth is, though, I've never met anyone who is capable of doing the exercise without fault-I'm sure they exist, but I've never met them. And if I met someone who could do the exercise without fault, then I could easily make it harder-a hip belt with weights attached to it, pushing against parts of their body which I can see are beginning to weaken, even putting one or more limbs on a balance board. I might do this kind of stuff if I was training an olympic athlete. It would be possible to write a book about this exercise, and preparations for it, but one piece of advice would be to try to sweep the arms and legs away from the ground-a common mistake is to lift them straight off the ground. For instance, with the arms, try to slide your hand forwards over the floor, so that your arm is straight before you lift the hand off the ground. For most people, this would be a good starting point-to leave the hand on the ground, and gradually reduce the body weight on that limb. So make gradual transitions. This is a good way of feeling the abs-often, our alignment is kncked off, and the abs skate out of the way, so they don't tense up-exactly what happens in yoga postures, so I feel that many people do not have bandhas that are functional. In my ideal world, we would have children doing this exercise a few times a week at school, or variations of it. The experts are now doing balance exercises like this in children with dyslexia and developmental problems. Rather than making it to adulthood with a body that is going to be injured by doing exercise, you've got a body which can withstand the punishment-so hopefully, you would have more adults enjoyng keeping fit. Hmm, I can sense another book taking shape, and I haven't finished the first one-over and out! Nick | ||
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Nick - 2007-09-06 9:44 AM it's a core stability exercise, but core stability is basically a myth! Now you tell us | |||
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Location: London, England | Hi Jonathon, Hee hee-well, maybe not a myth, but there's some people making a lot of money out of promoting the abdominals as the be all and end all-conveniently forgetting that we have a neck and limbs. So they veil the truth, which is far more complex, and go on about transversus abdominus like it was some kind of holy grail-you know who I'm talking about It also allows them to be less knowledgeable. Nick | ||
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