Frankly Yoga

So what is fascia-focused somatic yoga?

First, let unpack somatic yoga. “Soma” comes from Greek for “body”. It’s been the past hundreds of years for humans to take it to yoga in order to tame and control the body and mind for enlightenment.

Fast forward to now, a lot of sh*t has been said about asana, the most (only?) tangible physical part of yoga.

But no, the body is not something to be TACKLED, but embraced with pure compassion.

So when I made a somatic turn in the way I move on and off mat, I discharged a lot of stress and suppressed emotions. And I wanted to help you do so.

But why fascia? Although researches about fascia is still in infancy, enough evidence showed that fascia is where the body store and manifest trauma. That’s why people complain about being stiff and painful, it’s not (solely) because they’re sitting too much, or old, but because they are trapped in this straitjacket of their own dense, dried up fascia (see second slide, credit to Jean Francois Brabant).

So in short, fascia-focused somatic yoga gets to the roots of the problem and brings in a way of moving your body that’s sustainable, pain free and actually make you feel good.

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Part 1 of my recovery journey from multiple repetitive stress injuries. Wrist in Woes

You know what, I never had to “practice” to get to arm balances. I mean, I really did get right into Bakasana (crow pose) by my third try. I’d see others struggling and wonder why.

After over a decade of this kind of “naturally getting it” practice, my wrist fought back—I developed a ganglion cyst.

Don’t get me wrong, I still love arm balance. I think it’s a unique orchestration of upper body strengthening, coordinated pranayama and dhristi in modern yoga.

But I love it more when it doesn’t have to do harm to my wrists.

Sometimes all those difficult and challenging aspects in life draw and drain all our attention, blinding us to the fact that some easy paths we took may not have been the right one after all.

And remember, modern yoga asks our wrists to be in dorsiflexion more than they are designed to. So counter-stretch, lubricate the joints and take rest 💐

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