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Sarah

Posted 2003-10-30 3:12 PM (#2566)
Subject: ashtanga yoga

I've been vigorously practicing for a year now, and I absolutely love it. Anyway I was curious about the full straddle stretch. It feels like my hip bone don't want to allow the pose. Is this normal?

jessica

Posted 2003-11-06 10:05 AM (#2596 - in reply to #2566)
Subject: RE: ashtanga yoga

in yoga chikitsa (the primary series of ashtanga) there is no full straddle stretch. Sounds like you're doing a variation, or Power Yoga, not ashtanga.

for the actual primary series, feel free to go to www.ayri.org

jess

Hunter

Posted 2003-12-31 4:43 PM (#2995 - in reply to #2566)
Subject: RE: ashtanga yoga

I've been looking for a site that listed the primary series online. Thanks!

Hunter

YogaDancer

Posted 2004-01-23 6:38 PM (#3305 - in reply to #2566)
Subject: RE: ashtanga yoga

I would bet you're referring to either Parsarita Podottanasana or Uphavista Konasana. Find the asana here: http://www.YogaDancer.com/Asanas.shtml and use the Sanskrit name. This is the language of yoga, just like latin is the language of medicine or botany, French is the language of cooking. If you use the correct name, you'll always get feedback for the correct asana. This loose translation stuff is subject to the teacher's (laziness) interpertation and frequently silly and could be applied to many asanas, as the two I've mentioned for you above.

If it is either of these poses, press your feet into the earth, isometrically pull them together. This will activiate the leg muscles so you're not hanging out in your hip joints. (Isometric = force against an immobile object, i.e. your feet against the floor, the action is pulling them towards each other, but since they're pressed into an immobile surface, they're not really moving.) This hip pain can produce a repetative stress injury, in that if you're flexible enough there that you can really relax into the pose, you're stressing the joint if you're not engaging your muscles. I dealt with this RSI for 2 whole years until a chance encounter with an Anusara teacher who asked me to "challenge myself" by "hugging in" produced enough muscle energy that I healed. Bless him!

Christine

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