Deepen Your Forward Bending Practice... Even If You Feel There’s Nowhere Left To Go

Ready To Shake Up Your Habits And Question Your Assumptions? Grab A Mat & Join Leslie Now...

This excerpt is taken from a longer class about forward bending, and specifically, Paschimottanasana.

As Leslie is fond of saying, “Paschima” means “West,” not “hamstrings!” Thus, Paschimottanasana gives you a chance to “stretch the West”: the entire back surface of your body.

But what if you can already fold your body in half and you don’t get much of a stretch? Does that mean you’re finished? Where do you go from there?

If we choose take the name of the pose literally, as is indicated in various historical texts, then we can conclude that our goal is to find a way to get an even stretch along the entire back body, and not focus on an end-goal, like bringing our chest to touch our legs.

Join Leslie here to see how he helps one student find a more well-distributed sensation along her entire back-body, when she usually doesn’t get any sensation of stretch because she’s so flexible.

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