its important to open up your hips
particularly if you do lots of sitting meditation
otherwise you risk damaging your knees
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I heard about that the other day, but I'm not sure what it means. Idk how to open hips..
forward and sideways splits stretches... even just touching your toes helps reduce the strain from it... meditation is much like sitting at a computer in this respect
if you don't stretch the muscles and they get worked or sit in a rigid position for a long time it makes them shorten and then they will pull at the tendons and any shit on your bones hurts like fuck
Okay, this is good. I'll add that stretch to my routine
I do the the Ashtanga primary series
but just squatting is a good start.
Cool, I'll look it up
If you can do full primary well you're basically already a super-hero.
The sun salutations and first 6 or so asanas are enough to get the body ready for sitting meditation.
This is going to be a long project for me. I can't even come close to these stretches people are doing in these videos...
But that's okay. Thanks for giving me that keyword - that unlocked a lot of new information
I am not naturally flexible
It took me a full year before I was able to do the full primary sequence at all
It's best to start doing just sun salutations
Memorize Surya Namaskara A and B?
I'd suggest doing five of those each, every morning.