Your Spine, Your Yoga: Developing stability and mobility for your spine

Bernie Clark

ISBN 10: 0968766552 / ISBN 13: 9780968766552

Editore: Wild Strawberry, Canada, BC, 2018

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Your Spine, Your Yoga is arguably the first book that looks at the spine from both the Western anatomical/biomechanical point of view and the modern yoga perspective. It is filled with detail, discussion, illustrations, and practical advice for spines of all types. This emphasis on variety is welcome and necessary: no two spines are exactly alike, and no two people have the same biology and biography. What your spine is able to do may be vastly different from what other yoga students or teachers spines can do. The human spine is unique in its structure and function. Primarily, it provides stability through the core of our body, allowing forces to be transmitted from the upper body (arms and shoulders) to the lower body (pelvis and legs) and vice versa. Secondarily, the spine allows tremendous range of movement. Unfortunately, in modern yoga practice we find the primacy of these two functions reversed, with flexibility prized over stability. This focus on spinal mobility comes at a grave cost to many students. Stability is lost, and when that happens, dysfunction and pain often follow. Just as all tissues and areas of the body need a healthy amount of stress to regain and maintain optimal health, so too our spine needs the appropriate levels of stress to remain functional throughout our lives. How we choose to exercise the spine makes a difference, though. Knowing the way the spine is built, specifically, how your spine is built, will allow you to tailor your exercises wisely to match your goals. Your Spine, Your Yoga is the second book in the Your Body, Your Yoga series and focuses on the axial bodythe core, from the sacral complex, which includes the pelvis, sacrum, and sacroiliac joint, through the lumbar and thoracic segments of the spine, to the cervical complex, which includes the neck and head. The structural components of each segment are examined: from the bones, to the joints, ligaments, fascia, tendons, muscles, and even the neurological and blood systems. The range and implications of human variations are presented, as well as the ways these variations may affect individual yoga practices. The sources of restrictions to movement are investigated through answering the question What Stops Me? The answers presented run through a spectrum, beginning with various types of tensile resistance to three kinds of compressive resistance. Whether the reader is a novice to yoga, anatomy, or both, or a seasoned practitioner with an in-depth knowledge in these fields, this book will be valuable. For the novice, there are easily understood illustrations and photographs, as well as sidebars highlighting the most important topics. For the anatomy geek, other sidebars focus on the complexity of the topic, with hundreds of references provided for further investigation. For the yoga teacher, sidebars suggest how to bring this knowledge into the classroom. Your Spine, Your Yoga can be used as a resource when specific questions arise, as a textbook to be studied in detail, or as a fascinating coffee-table book to be browsed at leisure for topics of current interest. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

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• Titolo: Your Spine, Your Yoga: Developing stability and mobility for your spine
• Editore: Wild Strawberry, Canada, BC
• Data di pubblicazione: 2018
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0968766552
• ISBN 13: 9780968766552
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Condizione: Very Good
• Peso: 971 grammi

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Riassunto

Your Spine, Your Yoga is arguably the first book that looks at the spine fromboth the Western anatomical/biomechanical pointof view and the modern yoga perspective. It is filled with detail, discussion, illustrations, and practicaladvice for spines of all types. This emphasis on variety is welcome and necessary: no two spines are exactlyalike, and no two people have the same biology and biography. What your spine is able to do may be vastlydifferent from what other yoga students’ or teachers’ spines can do.

The human spine is unique in itsstructure and function. Primarily, it provides stability through the core of our body, allowing forcesto be transmitted from the upper body (arms and shoulders) to the lower body (pelvis and legs) andvice versa. Secondarily, the spine allows tremendous range of movement. Unfortunately, in modern yogapractice we find the primacy of these two functions reversed, with flexibility prized over stability.This focus on spinal mobility comes at a grave cost to many students. Stability is lost, and when thathappens, dysfunction and pain often follow.

Just as all tissues and areas of the body need a healthyamount of stress to regain and maintain optimal health, so too our spine needs the appropriate levelsof stress to remain functional throughout our lives. How we choose to exercise the spine makes adifference, though. Knowing the way the spine is built, specifically, how your spine is built, willallow you to tailor your exercises wisely to match your goals.

Your Spine, Your Yoga is the secondbook in the Your Body, Your Yoga series and focuses on the axial body?the core, from the sacral complex,which includes the pelvis, sacrum, and sacroiliac joint, through the lumbar and thoracic segments ofthe spine, to the cervical complex, which includes the neck and head. The structural components ofeach segment are examined: from the bones, to the joints, ligaments, fascia, tendons, muscles, andeven the neurological and blood systems. The range and implications of human variations are presented,as well as the ways these variations may affect individual yoga practices. The sources of restrictionsto movement are investigated through answering the question “What Stops Me?” The answers presentedrun through a spectrum, beginning with various types of tensile resistance to three kinds of compressiveresistance.

Whether the reader is a novice to yoga, anatomy, or both, or a seasoned practitioner withan in-depth knowledge in these fields, this book will be valuable. For the novice, there are easilyunderstood illustrations and photographs, as well as sidebars highlighting the most important topics.For the anatomy geek, other sidebars focus on the complexity of the topic, with hundreds of referencesprovided for further investigation. For the yoga teacher, sidebars suggest how to bring this knowledgeinto the classroom. Your Spine, Your Yoga can be used as a resource when specific questions arise,as a textbook to be studied in detail, or as a fascinating coffee-table book to be browsed at leisurefor topics of current interest.

Informazioni sull'autore

Bernie Clark author of the best selling The Complete Guide to Yin Yoga, has had a passion for science, health, sports and spirituality since childhood. He has a degree in science from the University of Waterloo and spent over 25 years as a senior executive in the high-tech/space industry. Bernie has been investigating the path of meditation for over three decades and began teaching yoga and meditation in 1998. He conducts yoga teacher trainings several times a year and aims to build bridges between the experiences of yoga and the understandings of modern science. He is creator of the YinYoga.com website. Other books written by Bernie include Your Body, Your Yoga; From the Gita to the Grail: Exploring Yoga Stories & Western Myths, as well as YinSights. Bernie lives, teaches and offers workshops in Vancouver, Canada.