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  • polymexina
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    January 8, 2010 at 5:32 am
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    in reply to: bustyness preventing head from touching the knee! #6157

    That’s it exactly! Do you see how part of why it’s right is that she’s able to get her torso close to her thighs so that her arms can reach down, instead of down and around, like I’m doing? I’m more like an upside down checkmark than anything else, and it’s frustrating because I really can’t flatten my boobs out anymore. When I took other yoga classes that weren’t bikram, my teacher had me do a modified version where my legs were a bit further apart so my boobs fit between them, but my present bikram teacher says modifications aren’t allowed in bikram yoga.

    polymexina
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    January 7, 2010 at 5:34 am
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    in reply to: bustyness preventing head from touching the knee! #6150

    Hi Gabrielle —

    I hate to revive an old thread but I’m having a similar problem with the compression poses. Basically by the time I get bent down into the last part of awkard pose, my boobs, which are a L cup (a solid six inches from my ribs), hit my thighs WAY before my head does. I’m not sure how to correct for that, since there’s no way my neck can be longer than it is. Based on how the stretch in the back of my leg feels, if they were smaller I could go further in. I have this problem in all the forehead to knee poses.

    When I’ve done other yoga classes, I just did a modified form. My present teacher’s really resistant to that idea, though. I really like bikram yoga, but am not sure if I should continue if I can’t complete 3 of the postures (awkward, rabbit, and head-to-knee) because of my boobs. It’s not a matter of my sports bra, since my tits are as compressed as they’re going to get… would separate cups help, maybe?

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