I just did a hilarious yoga class where this skinny teacher and her skinny assistant laid down on their backs with straps under their lumbar curves and made a big fuss about how hard they had to work not to pull them out. “Can you feel how hard your abs have to work to hold that strap in place? Keep working! I know it’s hard, but you can do it! You can trap that strap between your back and the floor!” Meanwhile, all I had to do was lay down, and voila! Strap trapped!
It reminded me of being in yoga teacher training, when we were carefully shown how to lay a blanket on the mat so your hip bones wouldn’t hurt in the front when you laid on your belly, a problem that seemed so unrealistic that I almost laughed out loud.
All these dummies out here teaching “accessible yoga” without ever even considering a body with a slightly different shape than their own.
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