“Heart-openers” : Happy Valentine’s!!!

There are what are called “heart-openers” or “opening-the-heart” poses in ashtanga yoga. Those who practise yoga believe that backbends and twists “open your heart”

(Yoga tank top by Myra: Thanks again!)

(Anatomically, these poses stretch the muscles around the rib cage and shoulders. Metaphysically speaking (I’m not too much of a “metaphysical” person), many yogins believe they open your “heart chakra”; then you close them with the forward bends, then open them again with other backbends, then close them again with forward bends or the plow pose, etc. ]

This is an example of a “heart-opener”, it’s a variation of the fish pose – it’s a fish pose on lotus (go to your inversion, lotus your leg and feet in mid-air, come down very slowly, then assume the fish pose and you’re there.).

Happy Valentine’s for tomorrow!