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This is very interesting, and there’s something I have found that might be relevant to those who experience this type of discomfort – trigger point therapy. There’s a book I got after it was recommended by my pilates place. It’s called the Trigger Point Therapy Workbook by Claire Davies with Amber Davies. It teaches self treatment of trigger points. I got my copy second hand on Amazon and it was pretty cheap. It is fantastic!

Surprisingly often, if you have pain or aching, or a shortened range of movement, it can derive from trigger points in a related muscle. If you find and deactivate the trigger points it allows you to safely stretch the muscle out more effectively. I’ve found this book really useful. It is very easy to use and teaches you a lot about muscles without you needing to know anything to start with.

Cheers!
Rachel

Hi,

I used to feel too much extension just in my lumbar spine in this posture too, and I have found that several things stopped this from happening.

Core strength is one, and using my lower abdominal muscles as well as tightening my glutes really helped. The next thing for me was getting more flexibility in my middle / upper spine (which has happened gradually over time with more yoga), and the other thing that really helped was consciously thinking about an even bend over the entire spine – focusing on more movement in the areas that didn’t move as much and less movement in my lower spine. I also think about pushing my chest and stomach up more towards the ceiling, and about getting a stretch across all the muscles in the front of my torso rather than compressing at the back.

Now that back bend feels pretty comfortable and I never feel my lower back is in danger, but I can go back farther than before.

Cheers
Rachel

I had the same feeling quite often after yoga when I first started, but after a while it stopped happening. I do remember going for a nanna-nap after morning classes quite often. A half-hour nap usually fixed me right up though.

These days I don’t get that feeling any more, in fact I think I sleep a bit less than before.

Generally I have a banana and a cup of coffee (addict!), and several glasses of water before a morning class, when I get up a bit over an hour before. If I’m up for longer I eat more. A piece of toast or something like that that’s easy to digest might be the go. The other thing that I recently realised was that I might not be getting enough magnesium. Increased magnesium has eradicated the occasional headaches I used to get after class.

Hope that helps.

Rachel