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Christine
December 13, 2018 - 11:51pm
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pointers
Hi Variable,
I hope I can encourage you to keep working out the bugs until WW posture becomes effortless. We wouldn’t have all these success stories and triumphant practitioners if the posture wasn’t anatomic. Here are a few pointers:
Make sure you are not purposefully tilting your pelvis forward (sticking your bum out the back), which causes great stress in the sacroiliac joints. The pelvis is completely relaxed - including the lower belly.
Keep your chest lifted, shoulders down, upper back flat and broad.
WW breathing is primary. You must allow the midriff to come fully forward on the in-breath.
Pull up into WW posture every time you’re on your feet.
When sitting, don’t try to lift your chest. Because your legs are coming forward, lifting your chest creates stress in the thoracic spine. The idea is that your chest will be already lifted from practicing while standing and walking when you have full leverage of lumbar curvature.
Sit in WW posture with knees comfortably apart. Imagine that you are sitting on your pubic bones, not your “sit bones”, which should be slightly elevated behind you. Relax your lower belly over your thighs.
Think of your pelvis as a saddle that you are straddling, but don’t try to force your bum out the back.
Remember-to-remember to pull up through the back of your head and neck by pulling your chin in and down. This is very important, because if the head comes forward it throws the entire rest of the body out of alignment.
Breathe in and out through your nose, and rest your tongue gently on the roof of your mouth.
Get up and hinge forward at the hips on a regular basis so you stretch out your whole back line.
It’s impossible to know how to help without seeing you. If I had to guess, you are still breathing backward. I cannot reiterate enough that natural breathing is primary. Any level of holding in the midriff forces you to chest breathe, which flattens lumbar curvature and tightens all the wrong muscles in your back. Tucking your tailbone under feels good because at some level your back is used to it. Remember that you are a horizontal creature from the hips down, and a vertical being from the waist up. Allow the pelvis and lower limbs to hang freely from a strong shoulder girdle.
The solar plexus is the source of our strength, which we maintain through natural breathing
Wishing you well,
Christine
Variable
December 15, 2018 - 8:17am
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Thank you Christine
I really do appreciate you taking the time to respond. I will keep going and focusing on those points you raise.