
{"id":15109,"date":"2019-05-17T03:24:32","date_gmt":"2019-05-17T03:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theyogamandala.com.sg\/cn\/?p=15109"},"modified":"2024-11-04T11:22:00","modified_gmt":"2024-11-04T03:22:00","slug":"post-2-a-proper-alignment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theyogamandala.com.sg\/cn\/post-2-a-proper-alignment\/","title":{"rendered":"Post 2: A Proper alignment?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Honestly, alignment is a topic that I have always been interested in. I want to learn how to adjust someone so that they getting into a \u2018proper alignment\u2019 in asanas.<\/p>\n<p>However, today I learnt there is no such thing as \u2018proper alignment\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Everybody is different. Every Body is different too =P.<\/p>\n<p>Jessica has said this over a few lessons already but it\u2019s only today that I starting to understand it better.<br \/>\n\u201cit\u2019s not so much about how you look from the outside, it\u2019s more about how you feel\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A reminder to self to be more mindful about how others are feeling in the asanas rather than trying to get them to reach a certain alignment. If they are not hurting their joints\/ muscles, they are fine. If they already engaging their muscles but doesn\u2019t look like it, they are fine.<\/p>\n<p>This also makes me reflect, how we often want to \u2018change\u2019 someone or someone\u2019s thinking just from our perception of the person without thinking how the person is already feeling.<\/p>\n<p>Suzanne Ong<br \/>\nRYT200 YTT Feburary 2019 Weekend<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Honestly, alignment is a topic that I have always been interested in. 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Jessica has said this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Post 2: A Proper alignment? - The Yoga Mandala<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/theyogamandala.com.sg\/cn\/post-2-a-proper-alignment\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Post 2: A Proper alignment? - The Yoga Mandala\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Honestly, alignment is a topic that I have always been interested in. 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