True Yoga is Simple: 13 Steps to Deepen Your Home Practice by Olga Yumasheva - HTML preview

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our practice. This way, we get more and more

sensitive.

Another example concerns the Lying down

Twists. If you listen to instructions for Lying

down Twists, they’d usually say this, «Lie

down. Spread your arms to the sides. Bend

your knees to 90 degrees and bring them to

the left. Move the right knee a bit forward to

keep it in one line with the left knee.

Otherwise, there isn’t enough stretch in your

lower back area. Now turn your head to the

right…’.

Again, Spinal Twist should be performed in a

manner that serves your current needs. Let’s

try and make some adjustments:

(a) Sometimes you feel the tension in the

upper regions of your spine, so you may want

to bring your knees more down;

(b) Sometimes you may have pain in the

sacrum area; then you can bring your knees

closer to the chest;

(c) Sometimes the Spinal Twist doesn’t work

unless you cross your legs or