Isn’t Yoga Just Stretching?
When people find out that I’m a yoga teacher, they usually respond in one of two ways. “Wow, you must be pretty flexible,” or “I’ve never been good at stretching. Not like my daughter/friend/etc. who is super-bendy.” Yoga is often associated with stretching That makes sense, because when you watch people doing yoga, you see them stretching their muscles. Or maybe you’ve taken a yoga class and felt your back muscles or hamstrings stretch when you do a forward fold. But if yoga were just about stretching, then we’d give our yoga classes names like “The Hour of Hamstring Power” or “Brandi’s...
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