Weekly post: What did you do?

[cereta]

For those of you who weren't here last week, this would be our weekly chance to talk about what we did this week. You can go into detail, you can talk about something new you did or an increase of some kind, or you can just report time or days or whatever makes you happy.

Comment away!

Comments

[rydra_wong]

Have you found sun_salutation yet? Useful for yoga advice.

(In my experience, the crucial thing for protecting your back in forward bends in yoga is to be very strict about bending from the hips and not rounding your back at all: bend your knees as much as you need to, and try not to fixate on how close to your toes you can get.)

[opusculus]

That looks like an awesome community, thank you!

And actually, that's good advice, thank you. I just experimented with a couple forward bends and realized that I must've been rounding my back a fair amount. Doing them while paying attention to that feels a lot better.

[rydra_wong]

This is a nifty little video on exactly what's involved in bending from the hips:

YogaGarden: Stretching Hard or Hardly Stretching? Use Your Hips!