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Episode 7: Skeletal Uniqueness with Dr. Lori Rubenstein Fazzio
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[2:45] Recognizing that you are not symmetrical internally or externally
[4:40] Honoring the uniqueness of your body
[7:20] Guidelines for knowing your personal boundaries
[13:00] Building bone density with the proper osteogenic load and alignment
[16:30] Positioning the joints, muscles, and ligaments for optimal function
[20:50] Looking at the body fits together to avoid injury
[25:15] Muscle tightness versus structural limitations
[28:50] The subtle body: cultivating awareness of the body
[34:18] Fascia compartmentalizes muscle: There is no beginning and no end
[37:30] Sequencing your movements
[40:00] Returning to the beginner body
[43:00] The safety valves of building stronger bones
[45:00] Yoga is the liberation of suffering
[48:20] Listening to the messages from your body
Dr Lori Rubenstein on The True Healing Power of Yoga
Are you listening to your body’s intelligence? The misconception in modern yoga is perfection. Yoga is taught in images, but striving to replicate the perfect pose is to deny your own skeletal uniqueness.Today on Stronger Bones Lifestyle, Dr. Lori Rubenstein Fazzio DPT, PT, teaches you the importance of honoring your unique structure and understanding its limitations. Dr. Fazzio pioneered the first yoga therapy internship at Simms Mann Venice Family Clinic in Los Angeles, where LMU students are mentored in providing individualized yoga therapy for patients suffering from chronic pain. Her mission is to expand this model into other healthcare and educational settings
In this episode, Dr. Fazzio explains how you can tune into your body’s messages so that you can position yourself for optimal function of your muscle, ligaments, and joints. She shifts your understanding of yogic movement to that of personalized alignment. A picture is a valuable guideline, but every person is unique, and your ideal pose is too. Understanding how your body feels in each position will help you avoid injury, and will build stronger bones.
She breaks down the science and the philosophy of yoga so that you can tap into the full scope of healing that a yogic practice offers. Join us as we reveal the true healing power of yoga!
“Your body’s not meant for that, so we try to honor what each of our uniquenesses provides for us, and respect those uniquenesses so that we can keep our human earth suit longer.”
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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
Our bodies are not symmetrical right or left, and even internally. We are not exactly symmetrical. which. leads to individual uniqueness.
It is important to honor each uniqueness in your body and to honor when your body is giving you signals of pain throughout your body. You have to develop awareness throughout your body not to go to far which may result in an injury.
In Yoga, there is the subtle body, which you can not see, access, or identify and it is the essence of Yoga.
In modern medicine, a few things point to the subtle body, for example, body awareness. If someone has chronic pain, that individual’s awareness of that limb is inaccurate. (Rubber arm studies)
The body works best in optimal alignment to perform optimal function to create the right forces to build muscles and bones. Feel your body as you move to find proper alignment in your body.
It is essential to see a yoga therapist or a physical therapist to identify proper alignment for your body and to know when you are not in alignment.
Two groups typically score higher—those with chronic pain and those practicing contemplative practices.
The group with chronic pain scores higher because they are hyperaware of dysfunction in their body and often exacerbate symptoms. On the contrary, the contemplative practice group has nonjudgmental awareness; they can listen to the body’s messages and are careful about not creating a story of these symptoms, which can often make them worse.