More on stretching

Another interesting read about stretching and muscle length: ‘When you stretch your muscles, you increase your flexibility. But you do not do so through increasing the length of the muscles, you do so by decreasing your brain’s threat response – the brain “releases the brakes” and allows the muscle to stretch further.’

Here’s the article:  http://bretcontreras.com/long-lean-muscles-oh-irony/

This is particularly useful when thinking about this week’s themes: letting go; allowing the body to open; hip openers.  

while sitting, ask yourself

maybe you have been in this position

hundreds of times

but are you really unwinding…

opening the groin

are you giving the knee the possibility to open

without pain, without pressure?

are you giving the ankle the possibility

of rolling open

and the heel to turn?

and the foot to open?

From breath: the essence of yoga