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...MOVING FROM THE CORE
One very clear principle that I have understood
from the osteopath yoga teachers that I work with, is that when there
is a lack of core postural support, we have to hold ourselves up with
effort in the muscles that aren’t designed for the job (white muscle
tissue is used for short busts of effort and has a blood supply to match).
The muscles gets tired of holding us up so the body finds ways to build
support for the effort - collagenous tissue is laid down - so we get
stiff in our joints, and restricted in our movement.
Most of us in the West have some level of core collapse
going on. One way of waking it up is to work the body so hard that
the superficial effort eventually finds it’s way into the core - you
see this in top atheletes gymnasts and dancers. The trouble is that the ambition and
extreme effort involved often lead to injury at a level that doesn’t
reveal itself until they stop. We all know that if you start working
out you can build up muscle tone and bulk fairly rapidly, and that within
a few of weeks of stopping, it all turns to flab. Postural muscles
behave differently......more.
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