#backbending

[shirtlessgym]

loving his back bending routine

[yogadaily]

(via bloom in your own time 🌻🌞✨ | Yoga thoughts, How to start yoga, Bow pose   || Curated with love by yogadaily) 

[atharvyogshala]

Backbends help counteract the damage of bad posture by bending the spine in a direction it isn’t used to. They help to realign our vertebrae while at the same time stimulating the sympathetic nervous system. They open the chest, lengthen the spine and strengthen the upper back, all of which make our posture more straight.⁣ ⁣ Think of all the times you spend bending forward in a day. Whether you’re driving, eating at a table, typing at a computer, cleaning, or gardening, it is likely that you are spending a majority of your day in an unsupported forward bend. And for this reason, you need to practice backbends every day.⁣ ⁣ Too much forward bending, and as a result, poor posture, can lead to:⁣ • Back and neck pain⁣ • Restricted blood-flow to vital organs and glands (preventing them from working as they should)⁣ • Negative effects on self-esteem and mood⁣ ⁣ What most people fail to recognize is that our backs are meant to move in all directions – forward and back. Back-bending is actually a natural range of motion for the spine – take a look at children or monkeys, for instance. They have the ability to move their spine in more ways than you could imagine! Fluid and without restriction.⁣ ⁣ The posterior part of your spinal column is compressed as you bend backwards, which helps push the disks in your vertebrae away from the spinal nerves, and decompresses the front of the vertebrae. As a result, the damage from forwarding bending (over time) can be reversed.⁣

www.AtharvYogshala.com

[lifetimeyogisblog]

Which Chakra is Activated by Practicing Eka Pada Rajakapotasana (Pigeon Pose)

The practice of Eka Pada Rajakapotasana activates the Svadhisthana Chakra, located in the pelvic area. This energy center is associated with creativity, emotions, and the release of stored emotions. The hip-opening nature of Pigeon Pose stimulates and balances the energy flow in the Svadhisthana Chakra, fostering a sense of emotional well-being, creativity, and openness.

[mywanderingeye]

Guillermo Franco Rolutti photographed by Jordan Ferreira

[2hoothoots]

stretches

[cologona]

I just read Batgirl #7 and. Ho. ly. Shit.

I’ve worn a hairstyle similar to this.

I have a relative who used to live in a monastery that looked a lot like this.

I recognize the form of those buildings and those prayer flags. I’ve lit incense at a stupa like that.

I know those instruments. I remember such a festival. I know which part of Tibet that woman with her back turned is from (the same as me!)

I’ve done this dance.

“Akhu.” Goodness gracious that’s an explicitly Tibetan word. She’s calling him uncle.

I don’t think ya’ll understand what a big deal this is for me. I’m freaking out. The details aren’t all exact but the intention is clear. DC has just given Lady Shiva a Tibetan cultural background.

For all that media loves to use the Himalayas as an exotic setting for big cool action, it’s so rare that I get to see the people who actually live there acknowledged! Like it’s always a lone mystic or an army of faceless ninjas.

I am vibrating(!!)

Now, I’ve gotta hedge that I’m not really ecstatic about this whole ‘evil asian women redeeming themselves through their (almost always wasian) children’ trend that’s going on, or this particular dynamic in Lady Shiva’s backstory:

but I can’t help but appreciate the clear effort Brombal and Goodhart have put into their work here.

Goodness gracious(!)

[andypantsx3]

me cooking up this drabble rn:

[ghiertor-the-gigapeen]

Avatar: the last faceserver

[baboey]

Okay but the pose the boys do when they’re in full demon mode is just so. Amazingly creepy.

[subzeroparade]

[yogadaily]

(via give your mind some space. 〰️ | How to start yoga, Physically and mentally, Instagram photo   || Curated with love by yogadaily) 

[slow-media]

just finished the episode where they have to get to ba sing se and what is up with the southern water tribe genetics

like we have the whole aang and katara thing going on and then all of a sudden I see sokka and suki KISSING

and toph giving suki a little smooch on the cheek thinking she was sokka??? WHERE DOES THIS MAN GET HIS POWERS FROM

[mywanderingeye]

Tommy Lo

[legsnlingerie]

Bending Over Backwards