When we feel pain or get an injury we look for a single cause instead of understanding the cumulative effects of bad practice. To make matters worse -- some yoga ...
In most yoga classes instructors provide instructions based on external form. This emphasis on form detracts from a students' consciousness of how each form feels within their own bodies. In essence, current practice undermines mindfulness in practicing yoga.
Cecile points how that much of yoga and other daily activities is practiced with disembodiment -- where we are simply unaware of the effect that the pose or activity is having on our bodies. When we feel pain or get an injury we look for a single cause instead of understanding the cumulative effects of bad practice. To make matters worse -- some yoga poses should not be attempted by some body types without modifications or substituting a better pose for your body type. Yet students in class try their best to emulate what the (usually) lithe instructor is doing to detriment to their own bodies.
For example: the instructor asks students to get into a seated forward bend. Almost all students are compromising the integrity of their backs in this pose by rounding them. Students should instead be instructed not to round or hunch their backs and to modify the pose using straps to avoid hunching the back or to substitute with another pose.
The book is replete is dozens of similar insights.
This book gently helps practitioners at all levels to begin to evaluate their own practices and daily activities by checking in with their bodies -- and -- using Cecile's techniques, modify practice and activities to build a more mindful practice and physical life -- to reach full yogic potential which is the union of body, mind, and spirit.
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