Covered in 2.3:
What the lumbar vertebrae are good at (and not so good at)
Why the lumbar vertebrae are better at extension than the thoracic vertebrae
What’s special about T6, T11 and T12
Why the thoracic vertebrae work best as a team
Atlas and axis and why they’re unique
Inversions and the cervical spine
Rotation and extension in the cervical spine (and the danger in twisting)
Covered in 2.4
-The erector spinae
-Quadratus Lumborum (QL)
-The abdominal muscles: rectus abdominis, internal and external obliques, and the transverse abdominis
-Scalenes and the SCM
-The intelligence of the breath and the muscles involved
Covered in 2.5:
-80% of new students are referred to yoga because of low back pain
-Most of us have weak low back muscles that are also often asymmetrical
-Therapeutic exercises to strengthen the low back:
-Salabhasana variation (opposite arm and leg extend with hands returning to th...
Most of us have low back pain because our low back's are not as STRONG as they need to be. Let's revisit Allison's low back strengthening class. These kind of exercises are SO needed! Especially for those of us that tend to overarch in our lumbar spine.
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