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Hi. Welcome to MelioGuide. Today I want to speak to you about yin yoga
classes. Now when I put aside the Yoga for Better Bones book as a project
a few months ago I thought phew, there's a project behind me and I don't
have to focus on that any more and I can move on until I went to a yin yoga
class yesterday.
Now, this was the very first yin yoga class. For those of you who know me,
I did do my yoga instructors, but there are so many styles of yoga that I
have not yet to explore them all. So having gone to this yin yoga class, I
left the class thinking I need to do another blog. So here it is.
The photo that you see is a demo that we did in the class. As you can see,
you can do a pose in flexion where you're doing it safely and flexing from
the hips. But I tell you we were only a small class. We were four of us,
where I was one of the four. The instructor is aware of my work in the area
of osteoporosis. She is aware of encouraging people to flex from the hips.
Of the four women all of us 50 and over - now you know - all of us
Caucasian, small, one of the four has a strong chance of being
osteoporotic, and I know it's not me. So that means when I was looking
around to my left and to my right and seeing the poses and I was not seeing
the poses I wanted to see, I was really discouraged that here's an
instructor who is aware. Here's a small class environment, lots of
opportunity to modify things, but yet these women were being put at risk
for fracturing their spines from sustaining these long flexion poses with
an incorrect spinal alignment.
So if you chose to do a yin class, you really have to be meticulous about
your alignment. You have to take it upon yourself to ensure that your
alignment is correct. Otherwise I suggest you look for a different type of
yoga.
That's it from MelioGuide today. Thanks.