Mindful Alignment Strategies: Chaturasana (Number Four Pose)

Go to Hip Widening & Psoas Relief    Go to Four Aspects of Hip Opening    Go to Femoral Rotation    Go to Muscle States   

Go to Musings on Hip Alignment    Go to A Therapeutic Union of Form and Action (Porta-Potty Pose)    Go to The Inner Actions of Yoga

Go to Skills of Turning Yoga Poses into Engines for Health and Healing (image of flointed foot)    Go to Basic Energetics

My Sanskrit Primer: Sandhi/Euphonic Rules Overview

Go to Sanskrit Primer: Intro (Part One)    Go to Sanskrit Primer: Intro (Part Two)    Go to Sanskrit Primer: Intro (Part Three)

Go to Sanskrit Primer: Mid-Word Vowels    Go to Sanskrit Primer: Three Vital Symbols    Go to Universal Chant Translation (Loka Samastha)

Go to Sanskrit Primer: An Intentional Language "Fully Made" for the Human Vocal Apparatus    Go to So'ham/Hamsa   

Go to Shiva Invocation    Go to The Essential Nature of the Universe is Sacchidananda    Go to the Name of the Goddess Akhilandeshvari

Go to Twelve Robust Sanskrit Words... One Really Ancient Chant    Go to Most People Value "Goodness," but What Does That Mean?  

Go to Shiva Sutras I.1    Go to A Wonderful Line from the Svaccanda Tantra    Go to Yoga Sutra I.1    Go to Yoga Sutra I.2

Benefits of Bio-Mechanical Alignment: No More Pains in the Neck

Go to More on Head Alignment (Shirsha=head)    Go to Floating the Shoulder Girdle    Go to Alignment Wrinkles    Go to Changing Habits  

Go to Musings on Shoulder Alignment    Go to Benefits of Bio-Mechanical Alignment (Intro)    Go to Seated Mountain Pose

Go to Everyone Loves a "Mommy" Massage... Guys, Too!      Go to Samskara: A Mostly Painful Aspect of Spiritual Evolution

Go to How Ganesha Got His Elephant Head    Go to Microcosmic Orbit Meditation    Go to Optimizing Downwards Facing Dog   

Mindful Alignment Strategies: Tent Pose

Go to Seated Mountain Pose    Go to Porta-Potty Pose    Go to Mindful Alignment Strategies: Samasthitihi and Mula Bandha

Go to Misalignments in Yoga Aren't "Wrong," but Repeating Them May Cause Injury    Go to Basic Energetics    Go to Painful Muscle States

Go to Refining Discernment: Mostly Led Yoga Classes and Mostly Taught Ones    Go to the Value of Asking "Why?"

Go to Changing Habits    Go to Conscious Evolution and "Coming Home" to Anatomical Alignment    Go to Inner Actions of Yoga    

Myth and Modern Meaning: The Procrustean Bed

Go to Cultural Maturation and the Hurdle of Stagnant Archetypes    Leveraging the Power of the "Gods" Inside Us    Go to Dharma

Go to Why Truths Aren't Always Real    Go to Know Your Heart (Yoga Sutra III.35)    Go to Looking Glass Integrity

Go to On Twists, Turns and the Sustainability of Culture    Go to Metaphors of Govinda (Krishna)    Go to Symbols of Shiva Nataraj 

Go To a Taoist Story of Values and Choices    Go to the Myth Behind the Yoga Pose Hanumanasana    Go to A Tantric Creation Story

Go to Dr. King and the Temple of the Kingdom of God    Go to Ten Commandments? Not Really...    Go to What is Yoga Anyway?

Step-By-Step Dynamics to Relieve Common Postural Pain: Porta-Potty Pose - Part Five of Five

Go to Part One    Go to Part Two    Go to Part Three    Go to Part Four    Go to Basic Energetics    Go to Muscle States

Go to Seated Half Sun Salutes    Go to Benefits of Bio-Mechanical Alignment (Intro)    Go to Twists    Go to Supine Twists

Go to Forward Bends    Go to Potential Relief for the Persistently Overwhelmed    Go to The Significance of the Evening Star   

Go to Tending Compassionately to Our Wandering Minds    Go to Conscious Evolution and Coming "Home" to Anatomical Alignment               

Step-By-Step Dynamics to Relieve Common Postural Pain: Porta-Potty Pose - Part Four of Five

Go to Part Five    Go to Part One    Go to Part Two    Go to Part Three    Go to Seated Mountain Pose    Go to Painful Muscle States

Go to Musings on Shoulder Alignment (Part Five - bone & muscle image)    Go to Musings on Shoulder Alignment (Part Six - bone image)