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It's a day-to-day process, that's for sure.
And it's another reason why
I so much prefer
introducing people to the core stuff in addition to yoga, because take
for example something like
you know, you see this all the time in class,
and in Pilates too,
sit like this.
Oh okay.
Most people don't have the transversus strength, so what happens? The hip
flexors [tighten], and the lumbar curves,
and they're falling into that lumbar spine.
And they're collapsed. So here we've got tight, tight, tight, which are already
tight from sitting, because when you're sitting you're like this, in a chair.
And then the lumbar spine is curving even more, so we're collapsed where we're already
collapsed, tight where we're already tight. How is that beneficial?
So we sit on the bottom of the sits bones,
really on the sits bones and not on the sacrum,
lifting up and forward through the chest,
drawing the transversus in as tightly as possible, shoulders pushed down,
So literally open here.
[You look longer.]
Right, right. [You're not a chubby person.]
[Laughing.]
When I look chubby, that's a problem. [Laughing.]
So again, you have a person that's
never done anything with their core before going into a yoga class
and going, Why does my back hurt? afterward.
Well, look what happens.