Physics balance in yoga. Part 1: Alignment
Sport And Fitness / / December 19, 2019
Pink flamingos can easily take a nap on one leg even with noisy neighbors and it does not fall. Can change pace and continue to sleep sweetly.
Can a man take a nap while standing on one leg? Of course not. Some people are not that take a nap - not to stand for a few seconds on one foot without support. Even relatively simple asanas to develop balance poses like tree and crescent poses require our full attention. Once we lose our focus - we fall.
But the most interesting in training the balance with such postures it is that with full concentration and intensity we purify their minds and calm down, because it is calm, complete control over the whole body and focus allow to keep equilibrium.
When balancing we achieve physical balance with the fundamental forces of nature. But we can not achieve this harmony, remaining completely motionless. We need to constantly change the center of balance and a sense of balance to update every second. And when we have it turns out, not only our body finds its balance condition, but our nerve impulses, thoughts and emotions.
Balance brings with it steadiness.
loss of balance in the "one-legged" asanas is due to our instinctive fear of falling, and the inability to keep his balance strikes directly at our ego. The most interesting thing is that in reality we rarely falls to the floor and painful shocks. We just put the other foot on the floor - all, no one falls. Nevertheless, the inability to perform a simple action can sometimes very anger. When we lose the balance in such a simple asana like tree pose, and can not stay in it long enough, our inner critic starts to whisper: "What's wrong with you? Why can not you stand? It's so easy! ". The fall in yoga when the whole group can cause us shame and anger over the light, since our inconsistency has just been shown a lot of people.
But do not lose heart, because the regular execution tree pose improves concentration, gives peace of mind, strengthens muscles, develops coordination and balance, positively affect our gait (makes it more stable), the way we stand and how to perform many everyday actions, which are not normally reflect. You could even say that these benefits extend our lives, because they help prevent falls, which often lead to injury and even death among the elderly.
alignment
In many ways, the balance hold on one leg like a balancing act on a swing-board: here and there are the same laws of physics. If you place the center of gravity over the base of support - to keep the balance, if there is no - one party necessarily outweigh.
However, the disequilibrium is not so simple. When you stand in mountain poseGetting ready to go out of it in the posture of the tree, your feet form the very base of support. The center of gravity (the point that you need to position directly over the base) for each his own, as all people are different. But as a rule, it is slightly below the navel in the abdomen and depth, as for the most part people are more or less symmetrical, located right in the middle.
If you stand before a mirror and imagine a vertical line that goes from the floor to the ceiling and extends directly through this point, you should see that it ends right between your legs, at the center of your base support.
Your weight distributed evenly on both sides of the line. Keep the balance in this position very easily.
But at that moment, when you raise your right foot and start to draw your right knee toward to switch to the position of the tree, everything changes! Your support base shrinking - now it's just your left foot. The weight of your right foot, which is given to the right, moves the center of gravity, and it is not on the imaginary line passing through the center of your body. To compensate for this, you will automatically move your torso to the left, while working hard to make a new line and define a new base of support.
Again you need to distribute body weight evenly on both sides of the horizontal line. To understand how this works, imagine two men of different weight category, who are trying to keep in balance the swing-rocker. Balance can be achieved if a lighter person should sit on the very edge of his hand swing, and its heavier partner will move closer to the center.
In yoga, used the same practice: the lighter part of the body moves away from the center and the more severe - is approaching. The tree pose your slightly bent leg moves to the right far enough from the center of the support base. Reach equilibrium as possible, shifting the heavier parts of the body - the hips and body - slightly to the left.
Using his hands to balance, throwing them to the side, like a tightrope walker, you accept the intuitively the fact that as soon as the weight moves away from your center of gravity, it is immediately reflected on your equilibrium. If you have difficulty with balance in the pose of a tree or the like, try to begin to balance himself with his hands.
Moving the center of gravity up and down affects the retention balance as much as the horizontal movement. Check for yourself: in the pose of the tree to extend your arms, place the front of the chest, with folded hands. More difficult it will be to resist, if you raise your hands in the same gesture over his head.
This is because with every move you move your center of gravity slightly upward. And when it is high, the deviation in the direction of just a few degrees can lead to loss of balance. When the center of gravity is lower, you will have more room for maneuver. So if you have problems with the preservation of balance in the pose of a tree, try not to raise high the bent leg and start to stretch the ankle. Later, you can pull the leg higher - to the knee or thigh. Another way to improve the balance in the pose - to try as much as possible to extend the foot, toes apart.