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Make It Calmer

Support also comes in the form of feeling that you are so well taken care of that you can completely surrender. Ahhh — nothing quite like it. The body and mind may require a level of healing in a yoga pose that can be offered only when properly supported.

Tom has had a couple of bad bouts with his lower back giving out. One evening he walked into my house for a casual dinner party I was hosting for friends. I watched him walk with a strong lean to one side, like a crab walking on the ocean’s uneven sandy bottom. After a visit to the doctor and some yoga therapy, his back healed. But there’s nothing more satisfying to someone who has been dealing with back pain than to voice an audible “ahhh” when put into a supported yoga pose that provides both physical release and mental relief.

A well-supported Balasana (Child Pose) — just what the doctor ordered.

STRATEGIC PROP PLACEMENT

Pose Alignment and Misalignment

Much of the time we don’t know what we are doing while we are doing it, even on the yoga mat. All kinds of misalignments occur without awareness, because habits have deep roots that are invisible to us — that’s why they are called habits. Yoga props help us highlight those common and repeated misalignments by preventing us from overworking mobile areas or by stabilizing and stretching underworked ones.