If you’re struggling with tight hamstrings in forward bends you’re not alone. Please see Part One for how to release the hamstrings first. If you’re very flexible or hypermobile, please also read on – your sitting bone ligaments, tendons, bursae and your sacro-iliac joints …
Yoga can ask a lot of our hamstrings. This is what they look like, as an illustration at least (back of the right leg): Image: Norris Health. There are three (some say four) hamstring muscles. The semitendinosus and semimembranosus medially (closer to the inner …
As the rivers flowing east and westMerge in the sea and become one with it,Forgetting they were ever separate rivers,So do all creatures lose their separatenessWhen they merge at last into pure Being. Chandogya Upanishad It’s easy to get caught up in all the …
When I came to yoga in 1991 I can’t say that I felt a connection to my breathing at all. Perhaps you can relate to this? My experience of the breath and pranayama (yoga’s breathing practices) in classes was limited and sporadic. As someone …