Promote Overall Balance: Choosing & Arranging Poses

Introduction

• Be mindful of the overall goal to promote balance in mind, body and spirit.
• To meet such an immensely valuable goal involves intuitive sensibility which every teacher has and continues to develop over time.
• In addition, there are some techniques that you can employ to promote balance, such as the following.

Techniques

• Avoid practicing too many poses on one side before practicing the second side.
• Sequence to balance energy.
• Move the spine through all directions.
• Use counterposes to neutralize the effects of deep poses.
• Balance strength and flexibility (see below).