Thanks for sharing your thoughts! It's all about advancing your body's neuromuscular communication! This ensures the body has control over the knee and other joints such that the joints are always loose and open without any compressive loading, which is vital for all power fluid movement in life.💪
What Bikram put forward I believe is the need to stretch the leg. My sixty-year-old experience is that this mantra allows you to really become aware of the possibilities of stretching the spine, options hidden by years of bent postures. Thank you, however, for going against the current of what was often too much a yoga of appearances, even if the fundamentals are there.
Hi, Philippe thank you for your comment. I think Bikram place too much emphasis on stretching. To me, good yoga practice is about developing our stabilistation strength to unlock the joints, and the spine, to promote flexible agile powerful movement. Tension destroys all good movements in life be it, yoga, running, cycling, boxing, dancing, weightlifting or carrying a heavy shopping bag. Without tension your range of possibilities becomes boundless. For example, in Balancing Stick, all my students have a perfectly straight spine in a perfect T shape will all their surface muscles totally relaxed, with ZERO TENSION. Their inner spine and all their joints are opening out using purely their inner stabilization strength. Admitting you have to rewire your muscle control. A great example of relaxed roar power is Usain Bolt - his speed is all because he is always perfectly relaxed - ZERO TENSION. As Bruce Lee says "Be Like Water". I invite you to join me for one of my online classes so you can experience it for yourself. All the best Bill
Sorry for the late reply. Yes, I do it for all one-legged poses. In one of my classes, we do all these postures on a wobble board which the students are able to do because of the advanced level of neuromuscular control.
This an interesting insight. Ty
Thanks for sharing your thoughts! It's all about advancing your body's neuromuscular communication! This ensures the body has control over the knee and other joints such that the joints are always loose and open without any compressive loading, which is vital for all power fluid movement in life.💪
You’re a great teacher Bill. Two weeks into your program, Unleash the Body Within” and I’m seeing results, thanks
Rock on!
I always struggle with this posture, thanks for the great advice, its super helpful, namaste
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you! I just starter bikram and i love it ... but the instructions are not what i have learned during My years with yoga.
You are right it is not the standard approach. Consider it an evolution that supports the body's restoration and transformation.
What Bikram put forward I believe is the need to stretch the leg. My sixty-year-old experience is that this mantra allows you to really become aware of the possibilities of stretching the spine, options hidden by years of bent postures. Thank you, however, for going against the current of what was often too much a yoga of appearances, even if the fundamentals are there.
Hi, Philippe thank you for your comment. I think Bikram place too much emphasis on stretching. To me, good yoga practice is about developing our stabilistation strength to unlock the joints, and the spine, to promote flexible agile powerful movement. Tension destroys all good movements in life be it, yoga, running, cycling, boxing, dancing, weightlifting or carrying a heavy shopping bag. Without tension your range of possibilities becomes boundless. For example, in Balancing Stick, all my students have a perfectly straight spine in a perfect T shape will all their surface muscles totally relaxed, with ZERO TENSION. Their inner spine and all their joints are opening out using purely their inner stabilization strength. Admitting you have to rewire your muscle control. A great example of relaxed roar power is Usain Bolt - his speed is all because he is always perfectly relaxed - ZERO TENSION. As Bruce Lee says "Be Like Water". I invite you to join me for one of my online classes so you can experience it for yourself. All the best Bill
Have you have tried doing Standing Head to Knee; Standing Bow or Balancing Stick with a relaxed leg? How did you get on?
Sorry for the late reply. Yes, I do it for all one-legged poses. In one of my classes, we do all these postures on a wobble board which the students are able to do because of the advanced level of neuromuscular control.