Diva Yoga

FLEXIBILITY FLOW

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Wellness coach
January 04, 2021
General
FLEXIBILITY FLOW

Flexibility is the range of motion in a joint or group of joints or the ability to move joints effectively through a complete range of motion. Flexibility training includes stretching exercises to lengthen the muscles. Improving your flexibility can help you move more comfortably throughout the day. In a flexibility flow, you can include suryanamaskars as warm up and move on to a full body stretch sequence that includes holds in different positions like trikonasana, parsovottanasana, bhujangasana and so on.

Benefits

  • releases muscles tension and stiffness
  • improve mobility and range of motion
  • prevent pain caused by tight muscles
  • get deeper into yoga postures
  • improve posture and balance
  • decrease risk of injuries
  • increase blood flow to the muscles
  • relieves back pain
  • calms the mind, releases stress and anxiety

This flow is a part of the Vinyasa traditional series.

The word “vinyasa” is translated as “arranging something in a special way,” in this case, yoga postures. Vinyasa means to move your body in a synchronised yoga flow with breath as the key.

Vinyasa Flow is the world’s most popular yoga form to develop a stronger mind-body connection, to strengthen the body and improve flexibility. It teaches us to cultivate an awareness that links each action to the next one on the mat and in our lives. It focuses on the flow between movements, rather than individual poses.

This popular, flowing style of yoga developed is a sort of "free-form" offshoot of the more methodical Ashtanga Yoga system. Ashtanga Yoga is a powerful and dynamic style of yoga developed in the 20th century by the guru, Sri K. Pattabhi Jois. Ashtanga incorporates the sequence of linked poses called a Vinyasa, but where Ashtanga has a strict structure and precise set of rules, Vinyasa Yoga is creative and exploratory.

Vinyasa Yoga contains many, if not all, of the poses included in the Ashtanga Yoga series, but it does not require its students to perform them in the same sequence. For example, in Ashtanga, students of Ashtanga are not allowed to move to the next series of poses without first mastering their current one. Vinyasa Yoga breaks those rules, often including poses from various Ashtanga sequences in one class.