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The real focus of my contact was to explore why these 26 poses?

I appreciate your consideration for my healed lordosis through improper “focus” or lack of instruction from the past that I had highlighted. As I have advanced in fitness and my knowledge of yoga instruction, I am confident with how to examine this from past in myself. Bulging disks and herniations will always be landmarks in the body. I am good with body mapping and exploring for myself in my team and through my knowledge as a professional.

I would appreciate your insight specifically on why I should compassionately re-examine this particular sequence. “It’s popular” “It’s healed many” “It’s glamorous” “the clients want it” really are not solid answers for me as a practitioner, a professional, a student of exercise science, a yogi, or a business owner.

Diminishing gains: yes, doing the same thing (and this sequence is the same thing right, done in the same heat, the same postures when one re-enters the practice multiple times?). Same thing over time will lead to diminishing gains physically. Mental, psychological, emotional, and spiritual gains will be reached by someone who is “on” and practicing, though physically, minimal things will be gained rather they will be “maintained” – that is the principle and how it would relate to this set series. Now, if one took part of the series and mixed it up, would the body see more benefits – absolutely = the muscle memory would be challenged.

There is an abundance of flexion in this series of the knees and spine. The longer levers are also something that can lead to spinal areas of concern without core focus. “Yes you can but should you” is what my educated body says now in my journey of exploration of this sequence. I know the results of what happens when one sits in Japanese style from our American culture – ligamentous of the knee (and this affects the majority of the population that visits this style) and is accelerated in the heat. The emphasis on hinging in the back in the extension poses often time leaves out the focus of the core and the strength that should be present to maintain the integrity of T12 and L1 from the hyper-mobility that is naturally there. I have now attended 3 different Bikram studios and viewed this in each of the teachers instruction – so rather it is a reflection of “them” or the style, or the teachings of Bikram…I need to inquire deeper and was hoping you had insight to that matter.

Anyone who can point me to a reason why I should compassionately re-evaluate where the benefits of this sequence stem from, how not to have people who get board with the style, and how to respark my own passion for the sequence backed by physical facts (besides those who came to the sequence due to endocrine imbalance- as I have a firm appreciation for this style for those who have found healing inspiration here) – I welcome your encouragement on solid facts and exercise based science.

So many are injurred by yoga instruction – not yoga itself because the teacher leads their students to places they may not be ready to venture – I want to make sure that I am comfortable again with this before I share my consent to continue allowing this style to be taught in my facility.