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 regularly.
Here’s a sweet recap of what happened during first and second Advanced backbend training on 01-02 September and 28-29 October 2018 respectively.
Here are 10 convincing reasons to practice backbends:
- Improve your posture. 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 straighter.
- Open up the shoulders and chest
- Stretch the hip flexors. Backbends are great hip flexor openers, as they extend the hips and give these muscles a chance to stretch.
- Keep your brain and heart healthy. When you do a backbend, you stretch the heart you not only relieve tension stored in the muscles but you allow the body to send off natural pain-killers too.
- Strengthen your back. Backbends require lifting the body against the force of gravity, which helps build spinal strength.
- Alleviate back pain. When we start practicing backbends, we counteract the impact of continuous forward bending, and ease stress on parts of the spine that are often stuck in the chronic forward-position.
- Stimulate the heart chakra. Backbending opens up the chest (heart space), which is connected to our sense of wellbeing and connection with others.
- Breathe better. Once our chest starts to open, there is more space created for our lungs, allowing for deeper breathing and thus more oxygen flow through the body.
- Gain energy. Backbending helps stimulate all chakras in the body, and clears energetic blocks that make way for a huge boost of energy – not only that, but they increase our breathing ability, and breathing is key to truly embrace the life force that makes us feel alive.
- Break through your fears. Facing our fears and coming face-to-face against our physical edge teaches us to develop patience – especially with backbending when we are forced to form a deep trust with ourselves.
A short video clip :
Your spine is the root of an enormous amount of possibilities, energy and dimensions, Lets all work towards a strong and flexible spine! More pictures can be found on our Facebook site.