Sublime

‘I’ll never be the fastest out there,’ she laughed. ‘But with the techniques I’ve learned to keep me in balance, I aim to be one of the oldest.’

There’s no training formula you have to follow. There is no one path or prescription except to follow your own joy. If you’re looking for a guideline, it’s this: Move. Any kind, any amount, and any way that makes you happy. Move whatever parts of your body still move, with gratitude. Move by yourself, and in community. Move in your home. Move outdo

In other words, our bodies can safely reflect these movements, as long as they are not taken to extremes. So it is fairly safe to say that a certain amount of side-bending, flexion, extension and rotation can form a basis for safe and useful yoga practice. If we are teaching movements that do not reflect these patterns, we need to ask ourselves why

Repeat, pause, release, and lengthen. Each time your psoas releases, the leg will extend without dragging along the pelvis.

while we are moving—for example, when we flow through vinyasas or through Sun Salutations (Suryanamaskar); this creates dynamic loading of the tissues, sometimes called cyclic loading.

Having said that, “surrender” is sometimes taken to mean slumping, or be referring to a kind of soggy release. “Softening into a pose”, as if one is giving up holding the body together by releasing tension, is a misinterpretation of surrender. It actually refers to a quietening of the mind and a permission to allow the natural forces of movement to