Good day, Steemians!
What a great day to be ALIVE, eh??
I'm grateful that we're here together
shaping Steemit on this fine September day.
Isn't this GREAT?! You're over there doing you're thing,
and I'm over here doing mine,
and we can meet in this great game
to exchange meaningful data that will improve
existence for ourselves AND others!!
What. A. Blessing!
In thanks, I'd like to contribute my resources:
I know yoga, so I present this to you.
This is another winner for sciatica and hip pain!
This is Crescent Lunge
AKA Low Lunge
AKA Anjaneyasana in Sanskrit
(anjaneya = praise, asana = pose/posture)
Glory glory glory to the psoas!
Crescent lunge stabilizes the torso, strengthens the legs,
opens up the back, challenges balance, and
keeps the full body supple, strong, and flexible
--which is all awesome--
but crescent lunge really celebrates the psoas!
The psoas (sounds like sō-az) muscle attaches the
femur to the spine and diaphragm,
and it is intimately connected to the fight-or-flight response.
Modern lifestyles, plagued by stress and chronic sitting,
trap hormones in the psoas,
including the chemical messengers for fear.
Tension, inflexibility, aches, and difficulty breathing result.
This muscle is a really, really big deal,
and crescent lunge gets up in there real good!
Stretching and opening the psoas
is a delicious physical sensation
that affects deeper layers of your being
in ways you don't have to understand
to enjoy this tasty stretch.
I could flow on and on about the psoas,
or you could try it and see for yourself.
How to CRESCENT LUNGE:
- From down dog, step the right foot forward between the hands, knee at a 90ish degree angle.
- Drop the back knee for low lunge, or keep it lifted off the ground for high lunge.
- Throw your hands in the air. It's up to you if you want to wave them around like you just don't care or not.
- Extend through the back leg, lengthening out the foot.
- Roll the shoulders down, you don't need them all hunched up around your ears.
- Reach up tall in the upper body.
- Draw the navel to the spine.
- Chill.
Breathe in, breathe out.
Breathe in, breathe out.
Breathe in, breathe out.
Making yummy noises might help, mmmhmmm.
💛 Sara!
infinite thanks to the ever lovely @everlove for the photo