Strength in Yoga

The importance of strength in yoga is often less discussed than flexibility or mobility. Strength is crucial for safely using one's own flexibility and thus achieving a healthy range of motion for the body. Only when strength and flexibility are combined, we increase mobility. How come? You can find the answer to this in the article on mobility.

In yoga, strength is not only crucial to achieve or maintain healthy mobility, but is also crucial for the stability of the body in everyday life and during yoga practice. This allows asanas to be performed in a controlled manner and held longer with the correct alignment. Strength thus makes a decisive contribution to injury prevention in yoga.

My yoga classes allow you to train your muscles in a gentle and balanced way. Through the use of tools and exercises that do not come from classical asana practice, but have been developed on the basis of the biomechanical principles of the human musculoskeletal system, I offer my students the opportunity to train their muscles in an intelligent way, counteracting typical muscle weaknesses of the human body. For example, a pure asana practice involves little hamstring strengthening and mostly stretching (e.g. forward folds). However, strong hamstrings are particularly important for a healthy posture, to prevent or reduce an anterior pelvic tilt and lower back compression. For this reason, I encourage more activation and less deep stretching of these muscles in my classes.

The strengthening of your body, which you experience in my yoga classes therefore increases your overall body stability, serves to improve posture and thus prevents typical complaints such as back pain, hyper lordosis or anterior pelvic tilt, neck pain and injuries.