Good Posture

One of the many benefits of YOGA is posture, postural awareness and alignments.

It is said we are only as young as our spine, and that is contributed to the strength and flexibility that it affords us to move through life especially as we age with easy flow and movement.

Every day life patterns, work, environment all has an impact on our posture, our emotions and energy also, how we feel, our stature and even if we’re tall or short all has an impact.

Yoga cues us to: lift, support, engage, soften, strengthen, align, shift, connect, feel, lengthen, open, hold, imagine, energise, balance, stabilise, release… and they are a few terms in short, all in an attempt to align and bring us into homeostasis.

“Tada” …sana…

Standing Mountain pose – Tadasana…

Tadasana is one such foundational YOGA posture that helps us to align and focus through our body to balance and align, integrate and connect to our homeostasis.

• Feet: balance and weight evenly, press evenly into the mat
• Legs: unlock and activate the leg muscles
• Pelvis: is it balanced front and back
• Spine: lift and natural curvature
• Shoulders: relaxed down in the back, stacked above pelvis
• Ribs: balanced not flaring in front, neither hunched out at back
• Neck: elongate and support the weight of the head
• Head: Centred and balanced