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For at least 15 years, Iâve been able to predict one comment every single time I post a photo of myself, or one of my students, in a deep backbend.
âOUCH.â
Sometimes they really commit to it. OUCCCHHHHH.đ
It still makes me laugh because the person actually IN the backbend is usually thinking anyt...
Letâs talk backbends.
For years, I thought I was doing them âright.â Iâd push my hips forward, throw my chest back, and hope for the best. And while that might look like a backbend from the outside, inside? My low back was screaming.
It took time, study, and some major trial and error to learn how...