Month: June 2015

Back bending is not a natural movement: Hence, the need to perform it – Part II

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“You are as YOUNG as the FLEXIBILITY of your SPINE” Probably children did not realize the fact that back bending is not a natural movement and would perform their somersaults non-stop. We grow, become “mature” and “sensible” and come to the grand realization that we should not do backward bending because it is an unnatural …

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Back bending is not a natural movement: Why do we do it anyway? – Part I

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This posture on Facebook which required unnatural involvement of back and trunk generated lot of discussions. The one comment that caught my attention was, “practicing backward bend is not of much functional use for me so why should I do it anyway!!”. Fair enough! Seemed practical and logical. In fact, took me back to the …

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