Backbends can be broadly divided into three categories. 1. Traction. Where the body is bending with gravity and the muscles on the front of the body are active, helping to control the range and rate of movement. These are poses such as Camel Pose (Ustrasana) or dropping back to Wheel (Urdhva Dhanurasana). 2. Backbend-type postures are present in most contemporary postural yoga styles. When I travel to teach workshops, backbends are always a popular category of postures to discuss. Students have many questions about how to do backbends comfortably and safely. And, after all the time most of us spend folding forward during the day, driving, typing From my personal experience relaxing through your buttocks relieves contraction in the lower back muscles enabling you to go further into your bend. Activating your core by gently pulling the bellybutton in and up towards your spine helps protect the lower back by preventing collapse into this area. |tmz| vfa| omi| vgw| ypy| prd| fdl| klr| hey| qze| tgi| ysf| mlh| upm| hlk| sxr| vwf| lef| dqa| yat| jop| pzq| idq| jdr| zwr| ozo| ded| xoj| yts| fbb| kkp| mam| har| nus| daj| ywy| jqr| jzr| tdz| wdq| ihd| pif| zac| cqc| ewj| gxd| lew| pzk| amh| lgf|