Dancing and playing becomes natural, even necessary. It’s like waking up to a whole new world we are compelled to reach out and through, twisting and turning and even jumping out wide. I believe that once we understand the three planes of movement our body is meant to explore itself in (Sagittal, Coronal and Transverse) we can’t help but be more inclined to move, dance and express ourselves in all three of them. We need to make sure we come to the yoga mat and balance our systems with back bends (always remembering to cluster your deeper backbends after much warming up and then stabilize spine in a neutral position for many breaths before venturing into the later, deeper forward bending portion of your practice). Remember, as earlier stated, many of us live our lives in a forward bending shape. If your favourite yoga practice emphasises a lot of movement in one plane of movement it is helpful to balance the internal systems of your body by adding poses (or activities) that take you into other planes of movement.įor example, if you practice a lot of Power Yoga (many Chaturangas Dandasanas) and/or Core Yoga (many abdominal exercises such as Knee-to- Nose Postures) make sure you balance your body out with poses that extend the body (working systematically into your deeper backbends). Also, over time, the spinal vertebral column itself could turn and twist, encouraging a distortion in the ribcage as well as compression to the soft tissue and organs inside. Unfortunately, for most humans, this plane of rotation does not get explored evenly both ways (both sides of the body).įrom sleeping on our belly with the head always turned to right or left, turning our heads to look over shoulder while driving or biking, turning towards phone, computer or customer continuously while at desk, swimming and only turning head to one side, surfing or snowboarding always to one side, reaching for the toilet paper role that is always to the left or right, twisting to hit the tennis ball, golf ball or baseball always on same side… …all this repetitive twisting and turning to one side leads to weak abdominals (the twisting obliques) and iliopsoas muscles. Out of the other two planes of movement ( Coronal Plane where adduction and abduction take place and Transverse Plane where we turn and twist) it is the Transverse Plane we move most often in. The Transverse Plane – turning and twisting Tensions and pain due to an exaggerated lordotic curve of cervical spine and exaggerated kyphotic curve of the thoracic spine (experienced when the head is hanging forward and chest is ‘collapsed’) are also products of living a habitual life in the Sagittal Plane. We have to remember that gravity is doing its best to attract us the earth (essentially shrinking us over time) we do not need to accelerate the aging process with living a life limited to the flexion portion of the Sagittal Pane.
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