Yes. I find a alternating, slow combination of cobra and plough poses really stretch the main areas which affect the spine during computer sitting. After doing several minute routine of these two poses my finger and foot pain go away and I can type without pain. You are helping to motivate me to take my yoga practice more seriously. I mean, this IS the friggin' SPINE we're talking about here. Also, the plough pose GREATLY helps to unlock the tension in the upper-back and neck area, which is where all of the pent up negative emotions seem to be solidified in the body. As you increase the flexibility in this region you can literally FEEL the mind loosening up significantly. I MUST get back into my SERIOUS yoga practice. Thanks for the reminder As always, I love your posts, and have voted you for witness. Keep it up.
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You are welcome - thanks for your inspiration too - I definitely need to do more yoga myself!
Yes, balance in the body and mind is what yoga is largely about - which itself can form part of a process of unlocking many aspects of self - including the non physical.
One very important aspect that is almost universally overlooked with yoga is the need to allow real emotions to surface and be expressed - so as to fully release them.. so that means being agile in the process and not mentally dominating emotional needs by forcing self into a posture rather than expressing emotionally.
Thanks also for your witness vote - I'm not seeing it in the witness vote log currently and usually that means that the vote wasn't logged for some reason. It would be great if you would check your witness voting page to make sure my name shows up there. cheers!
Oops! Yup. Thanks for double-checking the witness vote. The reason for that mistake is that there have been SEVERAL other of my main contacts who have recently taken the step into witness, and I confused the voting. Luckily, the blockchain is a good recordkeeper. I just voted you as witness. As for your excellent point about letting negative emotions surface during the "release" process of yoga, I am very familiar with this as a kundalini yoga practitioner. As you know, it is common knowledge that if done improperly kundalini yoga can release energy in such an uncontrolled manner that "kundalini psychosis" becomes a very real danger. This is also the case with Chi Gong, if you real the AUTHENTIC texts on the subject. Interestingly - and in line with your point - I have developed a HYBRID yoga-Chi Gong routine which adds a "perpetual movement" component to the yoga poses (for instance, a alternating "cobra" with "plough" pose so that you are never actually stationary, but instead in a perpetual process of STRETCHING the related muscles, tendons, AND mental functions. I hope to be able to eventually develop a whole SERIES on this topic, with photos, once I have figured out how to best present it...
Ah, great - thankyou.
I see, ok - I didn't mention kundalini yoga obviously, but that is the only form I have felt to encompass any of the needs of the emotional body. Movement is very much part of emotional expression, but what is felt to be missing (usually) is awareness of the need to allow emotion to express as a vibration in the form of sound. When the most heavily judged against and denied emotions surface and are safely expressed in private as the sound the body wants to make, they feel an acceptance and can quickly evolve into something else. GRRRRRR! :)
Hey! I just to give you a HUGE thanks for turning me on to Dr John Bergman's videos. I am now working through one of his videos per day, and his info is AMAZING. It is helping me to FINALLY get back into my daily yoga practice, as he provides some of the more deep science behind the reason why the yoga poses work on such a deep level. I am hopeing to integrate his knowledge - and others - into my upcoming series on teleworker health... That is, once I can get my hands, neck, back, fingers, etc. more operational via the yoga. Thanks again for providing such value...
You are welcome - he is one of the VERY few medical professionals I will ever recommend to anyone else. He openly calls the entire medical industry criminal and delusional.
My understanding also arose partially through yoga and awareness of the need to unify the aspects of self in the way that yoga can promote - so I value his body centric focus too. :)