You’re only as young as your spine is flexible. This is especially important in regard to vertebral disc health. Likewise, back bends can correct minor misalignments and even create more space in the interstitial space between vertebrae.
Furthermore, backbends open up the front body muscles and reverse the classic ‘tech neck’ or hunched posture, creating more space and reduce pain in the body. However, it can both strengthen and increase flexibility in postural muscles that support the skeletal system. Yoga cannot change the shape of bones or alter significant skeletal deformities. Back bends are demanding poses on many levels, but their emotional and physical yields match the challenges they present. The number of mental, emotional, and spiritual effects of back bends are countless, and intertwine with one another. However, there are less visceral benefits to back bends, too. There are entire systems of medicine, such as chiropractic, that study and emphasize the importance of an aligned spine for overall health.
As mentioned, a healthy spine is a foundation of overall health and vitality. Benefits of Back Bends Benefits of Back Bendsīack bending yoga poses such as camel pose obviously promote flexibility and alignment within the spine. It is therefore essential to use proper sequencing to build up to camel pose, and to recover from it. This pose is challenging not only physically, but mentally and emotionally as well. Perhaps one of the most essential back bending poses is known as camel pose, or ustrasana in Sanskrit. So, in yoga language, you are only as young as your spine is flexible. Nerves that reach every extremity and part of the body originate and extend from the spinal cord.
The spine is very important because not only does it skeletally support and center the body, but it is the protection around the all-important spinal cord. It is back bends that are said to be the fountain of youth, with the key to this, anatomically speaking, lying in the spine. In yoga, different poses have different benefits and effects.
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