SD thoracic & shoulder "opening" contexts (CKC)
Handstand alignment drills
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27m
THE WHAT:
The 'Da Vinci' is a spinal-mobilisation & breathing form which takes its name from Da Vinci's Vitruvian Man. In practice, it is a wave-transmission form - consistently undulating from the soles of the feet and transmitting out through the palms of the hands - combined with incrementally-increasing transverse rotation. In this way, tension in the global structure is notice & modulated, whilst eliciting a therapeutic rotational stimulus as the torso turns left/right with the legs maintaing an effort for sagittal alignment.
Review the 'IN FOCUS' here: https://youtu.be/lVFhsLS6pyE
Whilst valuable as a tension-modulation & spinal-mobilisation context alone, the addition of deliberate breathing - EXhaling to "compress" and INhaling to "expand" - elevates the context by adding an INTRINSIC stretch, affected by the contraction of the respiratory muscles in each of the increasing end-ranges.
Resource contents:
0:05 - 'Da Vinci' (continuous)
0:12 - 'Da Vinci' (cont., alternating)
1:03 - 'Da Vinci' (cont., reps)
2:51 - Da Vinci ('stop & go') EXhaling
3:59 - Da Vinci ('stop & go') INhaling
4:55 - 'Da Vinci' continuous (w/breathing)
5:01 - 'Da Vinci' cont. (EXhaling & alt.)
5:51 - 'Da Vinci' cont. (INhaling & alt.)
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