Are alignment rules RUINING your body?

"Brainy What-Why-How"

Your weekly nibble of brain-based tips to help you move and feel great!

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What:

Alignment rules / guidelines have a very valid place in yoga asana, such as:

• helping build body awareness,

• allowing for more balance and stability, and 

• helping you engage the targeted muscles.

I cue certain alignments all the time for these reasons! 

So they're definitely not ruining your body HOWEVER...

... they could be detracting from your resilience...

Why:

Every time we move or hold ourselves in a certain way...

it creates a neural pathway for that to happen again more easily.

The nervous system also doesn't bother keeping UNUSED pathways clear and active...

so every time you DON'T move in a certain way, it gets harder.

Movements, muscles, neural pathways, they're all:

USE IT OR LOSE IT

So if you ONLY move within the alignment rules, you're only going to be good at moving within those alignment rules.

How:

So I encourage you to break out of those alignment rules sometimes! 

Build neural pathways (and thus strength + resilience) in variations of postures where your joints aren't architecturally stacked for ideal stability. -- Because GUESS WHAT: THAT'S WHERE INJURIES OCCUR! 

Need an idea? ​Try this!​

This is part of the new ​Balance Focused "Welcome the Wobbles" flow ​on Move With Adell!

Don't be like the crowd of people in "The Emperor's New Clothes"; be like the child that says "OMG that old geezer is naked!" -- i.e. stay curious always,

Adell xoxo

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• Join my next NeuroYoga TTC ​here​!​
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