#body-awareness

#body-awareness

We've all heard cues in yoga class that don't exactly make sense to us. After all, language is a nuanced thing, and the way each of us interprets words varies. Some of us respond to simple and direct language, others to anatomical details, and still others to visual analogies. Even instructions that once helped us connect to sensation as beginners can feel overdone as our body awareness develops with continued practice.

Many people are 'secret butt clenchers,' unaware they're holding tension throughout the day. Glute clenching can be very unconscious, becoming a habit without people realizing it.

Just feel the looseness coming into the body and looseness coming into the mind and looseness coming into your very soul as you do this.

Muscle tension is a habitual response to perceived threat and can interfere with performance. Gestalt psychotherapy and Alexander technique can be used to retrain the body.