Thursday @ 6.30-7.30 pm

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​Muscles stretch best when they are relaxed.  This concept is essential if you're wanting to increase your mobility/flexibility.  This means when you're in the middle of a dynamic movement, wheter running or doing Warrior I, it's very unlikely your soft tissues will lengthen.  It can happen, but it's a very slow process and much less effective than when you're completely relaxed.  

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Gravity yoga involves long-hold, timed poses in a completely passive position.  Here is why this matters.  

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If you're looking to transform shortened tissues (tights hamstrings, locked up hips, stiff shoulders), your flexibility training must include passive, long-hold stretches with appropriate breathing to turn off your nervous system's stretch reflex and then gently lengthen your soft tissues.  This is so effective that you'll see and feel a dramatic difference in your range of motion from your first session.  Within a few months your body will look and feel noticeably different in a variety of poses.

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FUNDAMENTALS OF GRAVITY YOGA

• long-hold poses are essential to  turn off your stretch reflex and gently lenghten your soft tissues while disengaged

• nose-to-,puth breathing with a I:I or I:2 ratio down-regulates your nervous system and allows your body to soften

• preferably flexibility training should be done after any other type of exercise

• try to "meet or beat" your passive stretch hold times to incite change, otherwise your body will naturally come out of poses before any lengthening happens

 

NOTE

Gravity yoga has nothing in common with warm-up stretches, dynamic or ballistic stretching you probably learned in physical education classes as a child.  This is intense, measured flexibility training that targets specific areas of the body, and you'll immediately feel the difference

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