Sometimes your least favorite yoga poses are the ones your body seems to need most for both physical and emotional reasons.
I love expansion poses but can't stand contraction poses like seated twist, child's pose, seated forward pose etc. (I still do them but don't like the feeling).
According to Linda Christy Weiler, M.S., author of Mind Body Healing: Through Awareness, Yoga, and Somatic Integration (great course, btw) the somatic manifestation of issues with contraction (also known as grounding) is deep habitual tension in the body. She explains in her book that this is the same thing as resistance to gravity and being grounded.
This is pretty crazy and true for me and I do struggle with habitual tension so I'm re-reading her book this week and using some of her somatic re-education techniques again to reduce resistance and tension too.
Have you ever tried somatic integration style yoga?
Last edited by ExerciseEditor; 06/12/11 08:00 PM.
