
Intelligent Yoga: Listening to the Body’s Innate Wisdom

When our saṁskāras are suspended, instead of experiencing a sense of anxiety due to tension between our projections and the truth, we may experience a deep sense of physical relief within the body; the glorious feeling of the residue of truth.
Richard Freeman • The Mirror of Yoga: Awakening the Intelligence of Body and Mind
A constricted or anchored upper psoas limits arm rotation, breath, and upper-body extension. The arms as an expression of core movement connect to the pelvis via the latissimus dorsi muscles (lats). For example, when the lats are constricted and there is a lack of awareness at the ball-and-socket joints, the arms pull on the torso and on the cervic
... See moreLiz Koch • Core Awareness, Revised Edition: Enhancing Yoga, Pilates, Exercise, and Dance
Are there fundamental principles that we should adhere to? Integrity, subtlety and remembering one’s own kinespheric balance, before combining it with the person being adjusted. It is a conversation between two intelligent systems that become one in that moment of adjustment.
Joanne Avison • Yoga: Fascia, Anatomy and Movement: Fascia, Form and Functional Movement
Posture—Position—Proprioception. Positioning