Twists

I've been learning a bit more through webinars with Judith Lasater. The first was on twists, and really focused on the fact that twisting is less about compression of the spin and squeezing the discs and more about massaging the viscera (group of organs in the midsection). She also stressed that you can't twist (rotate) without a side bend. Same as you can't do a side bend without twisting (rotating). Also, twists flush organs. Hmm what else...

The spinal column is designed to be in curves. "Tucking the tail" isn't in accordance with our natural curvature. Intended curvature at the lumbar to "house" the delicate viscera right in front of it. When you "tuck the tail" the organs move from the front toward the back body. Perhaps they don't have enough room back there to be free and move with pranic intelligence and cleanse themselves?

Along the right side of the viscera is the liver, gall bladder is the tiny thing underneath, and kidneys that wrap around. The left side carries the stomach and the spleen. The middle houses the intestines and beneath those is the bladder. When we create a turnicate effect with the liver, heat is released and this may cause nausea. The omentum literally means apron and is the sac that contains all the organs. I think it starts beneath the diaphragm. Pelvis means basin.

Twists can be standing, seated and supine.

Judith shared a quote along the lines of "we think life is strong and love is fragile...but it's really the other way around".

:)

Thanks.