(via bloom in your own time 🌻🌞✨ | Yoga thoughts, How to start yoga, Bow pose || Curated with love by yogadaily)
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ALTBackbends help counteract the damage of bad posture by bending the spine in a direction it isn’t used to. They help to realign our vertebrae while at the same time stimulating the sympathetic nervous system. They open the chest, lengthen the spine and strengthen the upper back, all of which make our posture more straight.
Think of all the times you spend bending forward in a day. Whether you’re driving, eating at a table, typing at a computer, cleaning, or gardening, it is likely that you are spending a majority of your day in an unsupported forward bend. And for this reason, you need to practice backbends every day.
Too much forward bending, and as a result, poor posture, can lead to:
• Back and neck pain
• Restricted blood-flow to vital organs and glands (preventing them from working as they should)
• Negative effects on self-esteem and mood
What most people fail to recognize is that our backs are meant to move in all directions – forward and back. Back-bending is actually a natural range of motion for the spine – take a look at children or monkeys, for instance. They have the ability to move their spine in more ways than you could imagine! Fluid and without restriction.
The posterior part of your spinal column is compressed as you bend backwards, which helps push the disks in your vertebrae away from the spinal nerves, and decompresses the front of the vertebrae. As a result, the damage from forwarding bending (over time) can be reversed.
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#upsidedown #igtvlive #almostlive on 4.2.23 #backbend #backbending #backflexibility #upsidedowneveryday #justadtretch #stretcheveryday #stretcheverywhere #backyard #inthedirt #flexibility #stretching #flexibilitytraining #flexiblegirl #casilvermanspins @5410camoteroadsw88030silverman @sundanzz #5410camoteroadswdemingnm88030 #חי
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#backbend #backflexibility #anklegrab #anklehold #backbending #flexibilitychallenge #flexibilitynation #flexibilitytraining #casilvermanspins @5410camoteroadsw88030silverman @sundanzz #5410camoteroadswdemingnm88030 #חי (at C A Silverman’s Home)
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#livestream #igtvlive #backbend #archback #backbending #backflexibility #limber #upsidedown #backflexibilitytraining #backroads #camoteroad #backyard #inthedirt #instastretch #justastretch #justforfun #flexibility #flexiblegirl #flexibilityvibe #upsidedowneveryday #casilvermanspins @5410camoteroadsw88030silverman @sundanzz #5410camoteroadswdemingnm88030 #חי #backbendkickovereveryday #archingback #backarch (at C A Silverman’s Home)
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“only from the heart you can touch the sky” - Rumi.
#ekapadaviparitadandasan #oneleggedinvertedstaffpose #backbending #onelegforearmwheelpose #chestopening #shoulderstretch #yoga #fitness #serenity #meditation #hathayoga #travelindia #yogamom #onlineyogaclass #naturelove #yogainspiration #motivation #travelphotography #mindfulness #heartchakra #yogagirl #mahabalipuram #rocksculpture #seashoretemple #yogateacher #advanceyogaclass #yogachallenge #tourism
#traveldestination (at Shore Temple)
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That’s the beauty of backbends. Emotionally we can never be disturbed, for the emotional centre becomes an extrovert. When you do Viparita Dandasana, your head looks backwards, but your conscious mind stretches everywhere. Study by observing how the mind gets regulated. You not only know the freedom in the spine, but also the freedom in the spirit - BKS Iyengar
#dwipadaviparitadandasan #invertedstaffpose #backbending #forearmwheelpose #chestopening #shoulderstretch #yoga #fitness #serenity #meditation #hathayoga #travel #yogamom #onlineyogaclass #naturelove #yogainspiration #motivation #photography #mindfulness #heartchakra #yogagirl #mahabalipuram #seashoretemple #yogateacher #advanceyogaclass #yogachallenge (at Shore Temple)
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You know I often think of these really inspirational posts during the day and then when it comes time to post my mind goes completely blank. Does that ever happen to you?
📢 NEW ALO CHALLENGE
June 11-18
#AloDivingDeep
Summer is approaching and many of us have beach and water activities in mind. Join us for a week of fun in the sun as we focus on water animals and creatures.
🌊 Hosts:
@bayoubornyogi
@yogajeannee
@eriwyattyoga
@yogirl.trinaa
@beccarez
@ethereal.flame
🌊 Pose Line Up:
Mermaid 🧜♀️
Fish 🐟
Seal 🦭
Dolphin
Turtle
Frog
Flamingo
Starfish (any star shape)
🌊 Sponsors:
@aloyoga
@alomoves
🌊 Prize:
$100 gift card @aloyoga
6 months subscription @alomoves
🌊 How to Join:
-Repost this flyer to your feed!
-Follow all hosts & sponsor!
-Invite some friends to join and please make sure your profile is public!
-Post daily using the hashtag #AloDivingDeep
and tag/mention all hosts & sponsors!
-Have fun with a safe practice in mind and engage with your fellow participants and hosts!
#backbends #backbendpractice #backbending #backbendlove #outdooryoga #outdooryogapractice #outdooryogis #outdooryogi #aloyogachallenge #yogaoutdoor #balancepose #fitstrongyoga #breathedeeply #igyogamoms #igyogamovement #yogaisforeveryone #yoganewbie #yogaanatomy #yogahome #yogaeverydamndaily #yogahealing (at Chandler, Arizona)
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Can I tell you a secret?
I hate backbends/heart opening poses so I went through my camera roll and found every photo of me in some sort of backbend for the past 10 months where I am wearing ALO and never posted. Here ya go, a little throwback Thursday backbend edition
NEW CHALLENGE ANNOUNCEMENT! 💛
#alocolouryourmood | May 9-16
It’s spring and the flowers are blossoming!
Join us for 8 days celebrating nature’s vibrant beauty and colors! Get creative and brighten the fun by dressing in the colour of the day or tell us something about how you connect with each color and mood.
Pose Line-Up
Day 1 💛 happy - any pose that makes you smile
Day 2 💚 nature - any animal pose
Day 3 ❤️ fire - any core/ arm balance
Day 4 💗 love - any heart opener
Day 5 🤎 earth - any grounding pose
Day 6 🤍 peace - any seated pose
Day 7 🧡 vitality - any inversion
Day 8 💙 ocean - any calming pose
🧘♀️Challenge Hosts:
@yogawithruta
@missbyoga
@yogawithrona
@thecolourfulkate
@yogajeannee
🎁 Sponsors:
@aloyoga
@alomoves
How to play:
✔️Follow all the hosts and the sponsors.
✔️ Repost the flyer with the caption and tag 3 friends to join in.
✔️ Post a video/photo daily using #alocolouryourmood and tag/mention all the hosts and the sponsors (if you join the challenge late you can always catch up 🥰)
✔️ Show your other challenge participants some love
✔️ Keep your profile public
#backbend #backbending #backbends #backbendpractice #backbendlove #aloyoga #aloyogachallenge #aloyogachallenges #alochallenge #igyogamoms #igyogafriends #yogaoutside #yogaoutdoors #yogaoutfit #yogaoutfits (at All Over the Country)
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When you’re inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all of your thoughts break their bonds. Your mind transcends limitations; your consciousness expands in every direction; and you find yourself in a new, great, and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive and you discover yourself to be a greater person than you ever dreamed yourself to be.
-Patanjali, The Yoga Sutras..
Pls follow:
FB page - serenity.yog
Gpage - serenity-yoga-mahabalipuram
#ekapadarajkapotasanvariation #oneleggedkingpigeonpose #kingpigeonpose #backbending #hathayoga #heartopeners #shoulderstretch #serene #meditation #yogi #travel #serenityoga #yogamom #onlineyogaclass #naturelove #yogainspiration #motivation #peace #photography #mindfulness #instayoga #yogagirl #mahabalipuram #yogapractice #yogateacher #advanceyogaclass #yogachallenge (at Shirdi Sai Baba Temple)
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#kickit #frontlimber #backbend #backbending #walkover #archback #upsidedown #cyrwheeler #cyrwheel #rouecyr #cyrtraining #flexibility #backflexibility #split #mpowerhouma #totalgym #walmart #sportinggoods #demingnm #lunacountynm #shopping #fitness #fitnessmat #stretchband #stretching #flexible #casilverman #casilvermanspins @5410camoteroadsw88030silverman #handstand @sundanzz #אמת (at Luna County, New Mexico)
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Not sure if this is accepted as backbending pose but trust me my back bended and first time on my yogic journey there wasn’t any pain . .
इन्द्रियस्येन्द्रियस्यार्थे रागद्वेषौ व्यवस्थितौ |
तयोर्न वशमागच्छेत्तौ ह्यस्य परिपन्थिनौ || 3.34|| .
Our senses will naturally run toward the sense objects and their mutual interaction creates sensations of pleasure and pain. For example, the taste buds experience joy in contact with delicious foods and distress in contact with bitter foods. The mind repeatedly contemplates the sensations of pleasure and pain which it associates with these objects. Thoughts of pleasure in the sense objects create attachment while thoughts of pain create aversion. We must try not to succumb to feelings of attachment nor aversion.
In the discharge of our worldly duty, we will have to encounter all kinds of likeable and unlikeable situations. We must practice neither to yearn for the likeable situations, nor to avoid the unlikeable situations. When we stop being slaves of both the likes and dislikes of the mind and senses, we will overcome our lower nature. And when we become indifferent to both pleasure and pain in the discharge of our duty, we will become truly free to act from our higher nature.
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#MishMashYoga
#backbending
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Thanking hosts and thanking the sponsors
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#badassrebel
#NamasteAsFuck
#handstandprep (at Gauhati)
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Zig-zag is one of our favorite positions in our bridge pose @aerialfitness #aerialfitness #wheelpose #backbend #backbending #fitgirls #gym #workout #fitness #igfit #yoga #stretch #flexibility #class #bridge #zigzag (at Aerial Fitness)
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Bereketzade - İstanbul - 2020
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#afternoons
#architecturepicture
#backbending
#bridge
#bridgephotography
#dailymeditation
#explorecornwall
#findyourjoy
#fishpond
#football
#frame
#goodlifestyle
#goodvibes
#hdr
#homeinspo
#interiordecor
#naturestagram
#newcastle
#newcastlensw
#newcastleupontyne
#northeast
#olympicpeninsula
#photography
#premierleague
#productphoto
#selfcareisnotselfish
#selfcaresundays
#shareyourtable
#mstfbgcvn
#thegreatpnw (Bereketzade Galata Sok)
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Day one of #BackMend with @cyogalife day one was an easy warm which I am very grateful for as I am just starting to feel better after a belly bug. The last @cyogalife challenge I made it until the last week before I hurt myself trying to do a crazy back bend with no warm up. I have learned my lesson and I’m excited to start improving my #backbending skills. :)
#yogapractice #yogaclass #yogainstructor #motivation #fitness #flexibilitytraining #workoutmotivation #workoutroutine #flexibilitytraining #flexibility #flexibilitygoals #fitnessgoals #backbend #backbendpractice (at Quito, Ecuador)
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📢 Mondays in March with @yoga_international 5:30pm (eastern time).
🤸🏾♂️ Join me for a series of classes featuring a dynamic blend of power, precision and play❣️ This week we’ll practice fun back bends to uplift our spirits 🙌.
🔗 Link my my bio to register for a 30-day trial.
🎧 Music by @ruckp “Vibin’ Out”
📲 www.zain.yoga
#backbendpractice #backbending #ustrasana #camelpose #ustrasanavariation #carrieowerkoinspired #laghuvajrasana #littlethunderboltpose #yogapractice #playfulpractice #joyfulmovement #yogateacher #yogizain #yogainternational #yogaanywhere #onlineyoga #yogaonline #zoomyogaclasses
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Now ⏩ May 2020 ✨
Yoga is really great for so so many things but my absolute favorite is #backbending Especially in #wheelpose variations. I love how weird it feels and how much i have to think about where my body is.🪴Thinking about it now it kind of reminds me of scuba diving at night. If you turn off your light you’re just floating in blackness and can’t tell which way is up. 🌑 Obviously my hands are planted here but if I close my eyes in wheel I can experience the same kind of feeling of gravity working in an unusual way against my body. 🌝
#yogapractice #yogaclass #yogainstructor #motivation #fitness #fitnessmotivation #fitnessgirl #workoutmotivation #workoutroutine #flexibilitytraining #flexibility #flexibilitygoals #fitnessgoals #backbend #progress #backbendpractice #progressphoto (at Quito, Ecuador)
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EKPAAD RAJKAPOTA ASANA! Which a great pose for back bend and more.
#backbend #rajkapotasana #ekpadrajkapotasana #kapotasana #backbending #chestopening (at Patanjali Yoga Teacher Training Rishikesh India)
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