Technique for Yoga for Scoliosis

1. Realign your posture: Discovering your center of gravity can be quite a challenge for folks suffering from scoliosis. Then again like an oak tree with all its beautiful twists and turns you too can find your center. In a manner of speaking, what you are doing is learning to re-map from inside. Besides, it is imperative that you maintain the 4 natural curves of the spine when standing in daily life as also during standing poses in Yoga. This lets students perform a wide range of asanas with fusion.
2. Defy gravity: Re-center and stretch your spine. Scoliosis causes a shift of the body’s center of gravity and oftentimes you lose height and are forever fighting the force of gravity. By suspending oneself in inverted postures, you can realign, release tension in your muscles, create more space between your vertebrae, and re-center your body. In more advanced inversions it is possible to strengthen the arms and legs too.
3. Stretch your spine: First and foremost, it is imperative to stretch or extend your spine if you wish to bring it back to proper alignment. For people who want to reduce the lateral curve, it is important to strengthen their legs, abdominal muscles, and muscles that run parallel the spine. This is to prevent the lateral curve from growing.
4. Decrease the posterior rotation: In all poses particularly twists you can de-rotate the rotation of your scoliosis, thus acquiring more alignment and balance.
5. Breathe properly: Yoga lays great emphasis on breathing through your nose and learning how to breathe into the area of discomfort or the side of the lungs and ribs where breath doesn’t easily flow. The Ujjayi breath makes you emit a slight hissing sound that reminds you to continue breathing during the asanas. If you don’t hear a sound you might have stopped breathing. Such breathing helps you to focus and also slows down your nervous system.