What are the benefits of backbends?
If you suffer from back pain forward folds and backbends is what you need to be practicing to maintain a healthy and pain free spine.
As I am going to be teaching a lot of backbends this weekend at Balance Festival I thought it would be the perfect time to talk about all the benefits of practicing backbends as well as how to practice them safely without causing injury.
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What are the origins of yoga?
Yoga has become an extremely popular practice in recent years throughout the Western world but sometimes I believe that people are just on their mats to stretch and don’t always fully understand what Yoga is or where it comes from, it is most definitely not about how flexible you are or how long you can hold a handstand for. One of my teachers once said to me – “the person who is truly in a state of yoga is the person who is most present.”
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