FleshContext
A blog by Anna Karkovska about yoga, asana, alignment, anatomy, yoga philosophy
Friday, September 13, 2013
In Defense of External Rotation
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Yogis of all stripes view external rotation with ambivalence at best. I've heard many lamentations about coming to yoga and being very e...
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Friday, August 16, 2013
Why Internal Rotation of the Legs Is Misunderstood
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In yoga, we have a love affair with internally rotating the legs. Down dog: turn the legs in. Standing forward fold (uttanasana): turn the l...
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Friday, July 26, 2013
How to Release Groins of Steel
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Short answer: stop digging your heels! I came to this insight as I was riding my bike (which I do every day to and from work). Basically, I ...
Friday, July 5, 2013
Levator Scapulae: Perp or Vic?
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You can't integrate the pieces until you can differentiate them, and that for most people is a big deal - most people don't even re...
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Thursday, June 20, 2013
The Butterfly in Your Head
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We all know the expression: "As Above, So Below." Nothing is more so in the human body. And certainly the reverse is true too: as ...
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Thursday, May 30, 2013
What Knife-Hand Strike Can Tell Us About Hand/Wrist Alignment?
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One of the things that we are concerned with in yoga is creating space: space in the flesh body, space in the mind body, space in the emotio...
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
How Are Your Groins Connected to Your Humanity?
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"The groins are of great importance for humans because their full extension creates the upright posture unique to our species. In a sen...
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