Neck Problems in Yogi

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Date:  Posted 5 years before Jun 08, 2017

MiBeloved 5 years ago

The lungs, brain, and spine are the most important physical organs in yoga. Lungs in this case also mean the heart. The rate of breathing during practice is directly related to the beat of the heart. In fact during rapid breathing, the heart changes its beats to confirm to the rate of breathing.

In this post, I want to focus on the neck. As the body ages the neck moves forward as if something is pushing it away from the back of the body. Please see the diagrams below which I borrowed (without permission) from a few medical websites. Notice how the neck cranks forward as the body ages. It is interesting that while the body if forming in the womb, it forms with a curved spine which straightens out gradually to some extent. The spine is never a straight system. It is always curved a bit but the question is how we can slow down this natural curving process as the body ages.

Tibeti Yogi was telling me that one has to keep the spine as straight as possible and deter this curving action by doing neck exercises. He introduced me to the neck wiggle which is when one finishes a segment of breath infusion and one feels the energy moving up through the trunk up to the neck. Then one wiggles the neck side to side to help the energy to pass freely through the neck. This wiggling is a physical action but it is also a subtle action affecting the subtle body. Remember that the subtle body is interspaced in the physical system. Thus actions which are physical may be taking place in the astral body as well, as that body mimics what the physical one does.