| How early can you start back Pain Prevention? Well | | | | them. I am not saying these youngsters haven't any |
| the sooner the better BEFORE we start to feel the | | | | issues to deal with, they only have 15 years of |
| pain. What I mean is to prevent any imbalance through | | | | experience where as the rest of us have x number of |
| regular maintenance. Start them YOUNG. | | | | years that we are dealing with. Therefore we tend to |
| Let me explain. Recently in one of our classes we | | | | carry around a lot more baggage and that baggage |
| were joined by two young 15 year old girls and slim in | | | | results in stress in the body and gives us our dis-eases, |
| stature. One of the girls mother brought them who is | | | | back pain, neck pain, you name it we tend to have it. |
| also at the class. We practiced a variety of postures | | | | Only by recognising our issues, ailments, imbalances, |
| with some back bends, in particular the Wheel or Crab | | | | back pain or dis-ease can we start to do something |
| some call it. Its Sanskrit name is Chakrasana. | | | | about it. These youngsters haven't theses issues so if |
| We went through the motions of prep work etc and | | | | we educate them early then perhaps they will avert |
| theses two girls just flowed into it. No trouble, in fact | | | | any troubles that may happen. Prevention is better |
| one of them went into variations of the pose - Eka | | | | than a cure. |
| Pada Chakrasana, good to see to inspire others. | | | | Let's take these two youngsters as an example. They |
| Some of the members of the class weren't quite as | | | | are not regular students, but what if they where? |
| flexible but had a go any way. Those who have been | | | | What if they could take the knowledge gained and |
| reading these articles on a regular basis will understand | | | | pass it on to others of the same age group and older? |
| where I am coming from when I say that perhaps the | | | | Think of all the possible troubles that could be averted |
| reason that we are unable to go into these positions is | | | | by some simple measures. OK I know there are PE |
| how tight our bodies have become. | | | | classes and the like; however the practice of yoga |
| How much are we really hanging onto? Remember 15 | | | | works on different levels, physical, emotional, mental |
| year olds haven't the experiences of a 20, 30, 40 plus | | | | and spiritual that other programmes do not. |
| year old therefore do not carry 'baggage' around with | | | | |