If you have ever taken a Yoga class you may have heard some of these words or phrases before. Some are a little confusing – others are just plain strange.
- Hip opening positions. What does it actually look like when your hips finally open? Is it physically possible?
- Breath into your back body. How? Through the hole in the back of my lungs? And, what is a back body?
- Spread your Toes. What normal person can actually do this? It seems that only my instructors have Yoga Toes.
- Root down on the four corners of your feet. Who has square feet and how do you make them root?
- Yogis refer to their ’Groins’ – I thought we only had one groin? Who pluralized Groin to make it Groins?
- What are these Sitz bones they always talk about. Are they the bones we sits on?
- In downward dog they ask me to ’Pull up my thighs.’ How do I do that?
- Why is all the chanting in a different language? Can’t we chant in english so we can understand it?
- From high plank, ‘hop’ or float your feet between your hands. Float? Are you kidding me? This is not as easy as is sounds…
- Inversions enhance the immune system. Brilliant, this should save me hundreds of dollars in Cold FX and Echinacea.
- After 5 Jivimukti Classes I don’t know what it is. And after an internet search for Jivimukti I still don’t.
- Bring yourself back into the room by focusing on your breath. Strange little concept (but after a few months of yoga I get it)
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