In the process of yoga practice, we enter the asana or exit the asana, which is naturally completed by the body in the state of movement, and we have to repeat the same asana several times, but there is also a very important form of yoga asana, which is to keep the asana, that is, to stay still in a certain asana for several breaths, maybe many people are the same as me, right After all, we can take better care of our breath and stretch our body to the greatest extent in a static state
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But often at such a moment, the brain will begin to show impatience: how long has it been, how painful it is, when it will end..
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The process of staying in asana is a process of facing resistance
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At this time, there will be a tangle of staying to overcome or escape resistance
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Keeping asana in yoga practice is the process of keeping asana still, that is, the process of learning how to overcome resistance and overcome resistance
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When we repeat a pose many times in yoga practice, and then stay in a pose, it will be of great help to our body, mind and the connection of body and mind
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First of all, on the body level, we will think about the stretching effect of muscles
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In fact, apart from stretching muscles, we can also stretch the soft tissues of the human body well
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This stretching will send a signal to the brain of the human body, so that the nervous system can switch from the mode of muscle protection to the mode of muscle stretching
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The maintenance posture is the most effective after repeated several times in the posture, because if there is no muscle protection, it will be more effective There is preheat ahead of time, too much stretching is easy to make the muscle feel the threat, so it sends the opposite signal to make the muscle tighten and enter the state of self-protection, so we have to repeat a posture many times
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To maximize the effect of static stretching
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Let’s talk about the fascia of the human body
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The soft tissue of the fascia needs to keep a certain amount of water to become more elastic
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For example, the fascia is like a sponge
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If it is very dry, it will become brittle and easy to break, but if it is full of water, it will become very elastic
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Therefore, keeping the fascia in a certain state of water can make the soft tissue contact with time In this way, the soft tissue system can better cope with the internal and external pressure of the body, so how can the fascia be filled with water? One is to rely on sports, sports activities, body fascia will have said points, there is a professional physiotherapist massage
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Therefore, after the activity is started, the fascia will be effectively stretched after entering the posture and maintaining it
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The tension of the fascia is different from that of the muscle
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The tension of the muscle means that a small section of muscle is shortened and locked
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We need to let the muscle relax slowly to stretch more effectively, but the tension of the fascia is normal, because the fascia links many people As for the body structure, if you want to stretch these body structures together, the fascia should have tension in all directions
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The following tent example can help you understand that loneliness requires balanced tension in all directions
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The stretching of the desired fascia is mostly concentrated on a long line of the body
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We can call it the fascia median line of this posture
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Many yoga postures have a stretched fascia median line
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Let’s take a look at the following example: when many senior yogis look at the posture not from the perspective of the stretching median line, but from the flow of energy, or from the energy From the perspective of quantity channel, the practice of yoga postures is actually the movement of energy inside the body
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When we do postures, we are driven by breathing and fill every corner of the body with energy
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In order to make the energy in the body walk smoothly, we should create a reasonable energy movement line when we maintain postures, otherwise the flow of energy will be chaotic
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Let’s take another example: interestingly, the energy line of our body is largely consistent with the median line of fascia stretching mentioned above, which is not surprising
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After all, in the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, human fascia soft tissue is the medium of meridians, and the energy channel is also mediated by the tendon membrane
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Therefore, from the energy level and the body level, it is necessary to maintain the correct posture Creating and perceiving a stretch line is the same thing
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In the process of maintaining posture, another important element is breathing
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When we maintain posture at rest, we can deepen our breathing, which can help us switch the nervous system from sympathetic mode (I can’t stand it, release it quickly) to parasympathetic mode (I’m ok, I can still hold on for a while)
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Breathing is actually the key to running energy
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In our traditional yoga classics, energy follows breathing and attention, so it’s not enough to keep posing there
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We need to deepen breathing and generate ideas to bring energy to the spine, the main energy line of asana, and then along the stretching line to various nervous parts
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On the other hand, the muscles and fascia of the human body also accumulate a lot of memories and emotions of the past
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If we keep the posture and stretch effectively, some emotions and memories may be released one day
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What we really put down now is not only from the heart, but also from our body, just like releasing a part of our subconscious mind It’s a little monster, so yoga asana is like a training camp
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We jump and jump, and then calm down to enter asana, explore, learn and grow
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The article was first published in the official account: yoga, watching me, analyzing more yoga knowledge every day.
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