By Joy Abrams
poses in yoga should be considered similar to the warrior
pose. While doing your standing poses in yoga you learn how
to trust yourself and orient yourself in space bravely. There
are three basic ways that you orient your body.
Through vision you check to see if your legs are in the proper
position as well as other parts of your body.
system of the inner ear
This system helps you to maintain your balance and equilibrium.
This is the continuous but unconscious sensory flow from the
moveable parts of your muscle tendons and joints. Their motion
is hidden from us because it is unconscious. It is continually
monitored and adjusted.
the time that you are doing the standing poses, you develop
an awareness of your pelvis as the center of gravity and the
main support of the spine. It is helpful for you to understand
that the pelvis is not one solid bone but different segments.
The most important of the segments is the sacrum. The sacrum
is the triangular bone that fits down in a pointing wedge
between the hipbones at the back of the pelvis. Imagine the
sacrum, as a theme for your practice of standing poses and
it will bring to you a new awareness of your standing poses.