Work your core to take the load off your back
Are you planning on lifting suitcases anytime soon? Shoveling snow? Hauling a Christmas tree? If your core muscles are not in the habit of working together, any type of lifting, pulling, or swinging activity will end up loading your lower back. To avoid stressing your back, you need to regularly train your core muscles to work together and redistribute the load and pressure throughout your trunk.
This yoga practice includes some simple movements that stabilize your core and make your core muscles work together. Stable and integrated core musculature helps to protect your lower back and take the load off your spine in all your daily tasks. You can enhance those movements by intentionally hugging your waist in from the front, sides, and back when you hold the pose. Give it a try, and let me know how it feels!
Thank you Olga for this practice. I have a wrist injury and so this practice was perfect as there is hardly anything with weight on the hands. Until I hurt my wrist I hadn’t realised quite how much time we spend on all fours or in downward facing dog or plank position! I can adapt the postures of course, but it was great to be able to do a whole practice following along without having to change anything. It was also interesting and satisfyingly challenging. Thanks again.
Olga, Great practice. Very challenging. New movements really bringing awareness right to the core! Yay. Thank you.
Brenda