This week I will be running a workshop delightfully titled 'Groins Emerging'. Here is a little taster of Harry and I doing a little bit of synchronous work along that theme!
One of the key things we will be working on is the idea of softening and lengthening around the front of groin area as one of the 'tricks' to free the spine in back bending positions. I call this position knees away, groins emerging. They don't get pushed or forced up. They 'emerge' and soften as the knees move away.
This is slightly different to how many people are used to initiating a backbend. To people newer to my class what I see are lots of pelvic curls and groins thrusting going on. I don't want to suggest that this is a wrong movement. But for my spine freeing purposes it can tend to jam you in the lower back.
So we will be working on figuring out some ways to first get length in your lower back.
Then we will move to some arms away and chest emerging, as shown below.
From there we might work towards combining those two elements (knees away, groins emerging and arms away, chest emerging) to see how it can support a possible spine lengthening back bend.
From there some people will possibly work on a bit more arms away and chest emerging to go deeper. But that is pretty tricky. It is not for everyone.
Harry and I went back up to our backbend to take a foot up. But you could also do this (and we can try in the workshop) with the elbows on the ground like in the start position. Maybe not. I will be there to see what type of position will be helpful for you and it might be something different.
We ended up where we started. In our case this was on the road in front of what turned out to be the rubbish tip. No wonder it smelled so bad. Still, through it all we smiled and kept in touch with the core theme of knees away, groins emerging.
Finishing up with a bit of eye contact, some shared laughter at our antics. This felt beautiful to do together, almost like we were synchronised swimming yogis on the road.
So join us for an extra special workshop on Good Friday if you are round, 9-11am (probably a bit later). This is not for 'advanced' or 'extreme' back bending but for people who want to learn to move more freely in their spines, stop over arching their lower back and feeling all scrunched, and who want to hang out and share a few laughs.
Happy and safe practicing.
Much metta,
Samantha
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