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Sucking your stomach in and tightening your abdominal muscles is not the way to develop a strong core.
When you tense up your core muscles, you actually diminish your strength and hinder function by constricting your ribs, diaphragm, and the internal organs that lie under your abdominal muscles.
To properly strengthen your core boils down to one goal: ensuring your skeletal system is stable enough to maintain its integrity as you do complex, involved movements…while your breathing stays consistent.
Your body has to be synchronized and fluid. It’s not about sucking your belly in, which actually makes it harder to move and breathe.
Your core involves your pelvic floor, your deep abdominal muscles, transverse abdominis, deep lower back muscles, and diaphragm.
All together with the spine, these components create a container for your abdominals and organs, and that container likes to move and breathe, not be sucked in.
The whole goal with strengthening your core is to create a dynamically stable spine that allows you to move safely and efficiently!
Yoga for Bone Strength
Tuesday at 3:30 pm with
Yoga has well-defined sequences that can help you retain and gain bone strength. In this class you will experience a carefully crafted combination of poses that are weight-bearing, and well supported to focus on help to strengthen your bones, increase bone density, and develop a strong skeleton.
Virtual Yoga for Back Care and Spinal Health
With Patricia Videgain
Wednesday at 11:00 – 12:15 am EST
Ongoing class
You may use your set of classes or membership
This Class is offered in person and virtual
In this class series we will work with yoga for Back Care to find support and relief for back pain. We will introduce the concepts of ease and release of tension patterns, lengthening, strengthening and endurance. Each class consists of learning, practice and brief discussion. We will practice Iyengar yoga poses to find relief and gently guide the body towards a pain-free movement practice. Each week will introduce different yoga and movement practices in a progressive, developmental way. When it comes to pain, a gentle approach is best. This class series will show how to move in ways that can support healthy movement. This class moves a bit slower than your regular yoga or fitness class. Emphasis is the step-by-step guidance for setting up the poses and working with the back.
Understanding your Core in Yoga
Sucking your stomach in and tightening your abdominal muscles is not the way to develop a strong core.
When you tense up your core muscles, you actually diminish your strength and hinder function by constricting your ribs, diaphragm, and the internal organs that lie under your abdominal muscles.
To properly strengthen your core boils down to one goal: ensuring your skeletal system is stable enough to maintain its integrity as you do complex, involved movements…while your breathing stays consistent.
Your body has to be synchronized and fluid. It’s not about sucking your belly in, which actually makes it harder to move and breathe.
Your core involves your pelvic floor, your deep abdominal muscles, transverse abdominis, deep lower back muscles, and diaphragm.
All together with the spine, these components create a container for your abdominals and organs, and that container likes to move and breathe, not be sucked in.
The whole goal with strengthening your core is to create a dynamically stable spine that allows you to move safely and efficiently!