In article <xKydnTZwf_p6iOHVnZ2dnUVZ_hjinZ2d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Phoenix wrote:
> Menolly wrote:
>
>> Learn yoga. Invert with less specialized equipment. :)
>
> For some folks, sure.
>
> One of the reasons I am loving the inversion chair is that it opens up
> my abdominal and chest area, and my hips, in addition to allowing my
> spine to stretch.
>
> I can't do that with hanging forward, the only yoga inversion position I
> can do. It smushes me something fierce.
I've tried an inversion table, though not the chair, and find that a
sup****ted shoulderstand, with a chair, is more comfortable for me and
at least as good a stretch. Shoulderstand without the chair is also
good, but tends to be more work and less of an opening stretch for me.
Sometimes I use the chair, sometimes I don't, depending on how strong
I feel on that day, how tired I am, and how my balance is.
> My guess is that a lot of folks who are extra-large, like me, have belly
> in the way of good inversions in yoga. And centers of gravity that
> aren't where the upside-down asanas might think they are :-)
>
> I used to do yoga when I was young & skinny(ier) and I do miss it.
I'm around 200 lbs, somewhat well endowed, and I have balance issues.
Sometimes I use more props for inversions, sometimes less.
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