Does Your BodyMind DO
What You Want It To Do?

If Not, Here Are 21 REASONS Why You Want &
Need The DSL Method Of Yoga  & Bodywork

1. Improve Your  Posture!!!
Stand Taller and Sit Straighter with less effort and more comfort.
Learn where “Effortless Great Posture” really comes from.

TIP: It’s NOT from “strengthening” your ABs or back muscles!!!

The Secret to Good Posture is in learning how to Feel, Relax, Lengthen, Coordinate & Balance certain muscles of your body. You'll find that coordinated relaxation, NOT the tensing or “toning” of muscles, allows your body to stand and sit straighter and taller.

HINT: The words Tone and Toning do not necessarily mean what you think they mean. In some cases, what people are doing to “tone” their body actually leads in the opposite direction from where you want to go. But like many things, it all depends on how you define your terms.

(Please See Law #4 in the 9 Natural Laws of Yoga.)

2. No More Sit Ups!!! — (Unless You WANT To)
Discover why so-called “abdominal strengthening” exercises could be BAD for your waistline and WORSE for your back, neck and shoulders. Find out why any exercise that shortens, contracts or “tones” (see the HINT above) those muscles is prone to making your posture worse, not better, and what You can do about it.

The Big Myth Is that postural problems are about muscles that are “too weak” or “too strong.” …    WRONG!!! It’s far more often about muscles that are “too short” or “too long,” meaning out of balance. Learning how to “Consciously Stretch” and balance the various muscles of your bodymind is a part of the Secret to Great Posture.

3. Restore Your Waistline!!!
Has your narrow, hourglass waistline been disappearing? Don’t know where it went? Never had one to begin with? Sit Ups or Crunches don’t seem to help? … Or even makes it worse?

Often times, that “lost” waistline is only a matter of muscles shortening up and compressing the abdomen so much it has no choice but to “bulge out” at the middle, no matter how much you “exercise” or “strengthen” those muscles. DSL shows you how to regain that lost waistline. Learn to Feel, Relax, Lengthen & Balance muscles that will restore your waistline.

Or, if you still have yours and want to maintain it, DSL will show you preventive measures necessary to maintain proper length and muscular relationships in the “Abs.”

4. And Your  “Buns” Too!!!
Been tightening those gluteal muscles, but your “butt” seems to keep disappearing? DSL will show you where it went and how to get it back! Like the Abs, it’s not about how strong those muscles are, it’s about having the proper length and structural  balance. You’ll be amazed at how simple the concepts are, and how quickly the DSL solution works.

REMEMBER: The hunched over posture of “Old Age” very often comes from OVER-shortened muscles in the abs, hamstrings & buns!!!

ABs of Iron … Buns of Steel …
… Can Lead to Backs of Pain!!!

5. Learn Conscious Stretching
There are “Right Ways” and “Wrong Ways” to Stretch. There are ways that are safe and produce the results you're looking for, and there are those that can harm your bodymind. Vague instructions such as “hold a position of mild discomfort for 2 or 10 to 30 seconds” or “breathe into the pain” or “always stretch the opposite muscles” are highly misleading, and more like “slow calisthenics” than true Conscious Stretching. And sometimes, they are exactly NOT what you want to be doing.

The DSL Method of Conscious Stretching (physical/mental yoga) will teach you little known but fundamental basics of stretching & exercising effectively, efficiently, safely, and without pain.

6. No Pain, Means MORE Gain!!!
Tired of exercises and stretches hurting  too much instead of making you feel good? Playing The Edge of Pain, Fear & Resistance encourages you to go up to, but NOT INTO the “stuff” that doesn’t feel good, or hurts, and holds your bodymind back. You don’t have to go into the pain or fear to process it, merely close enough to “take a look at” and feel what it’s about.

The Power of Awareness does much of the rest of the work for you by dissolving or balancing the tensions behind your pain, inflexibility or so-called “weakness.” … And sometimes, that deeply intense, pleasurable stretch sensation is masking any behind the scenes trouble.

7. Flexibility & Resilience
As you learn to Feel, Relax, Lengthen, Balance & Coordinate your muscles, they allow more range of motion in all your joints.  You’ll be able to move more fully in more directions with less stress and effort. Your muscles will act more like “shock absorbers” against the strains of life, not steel posts. You’ll also discover that a muscle that is too hard is not usually a healthy one. In fact, the more relaxed you can be, the better. …

Muscular Relaxation & Length Breeds STRENGTH

8. Strength & Endurance

DSL Stretching & Exercise Technique includes numerous ways to increase the power of your muscles without compressing or pounding joints, bones, muscles or other tissues and body parts. You can improve your health — strength, endurance & cardio — with the least amount of negative stress on your body. You can also learn the basic but very effective Hindu body-weight exercises derived from ancient Indian wrestling.

Learn How to Pump Energy, NOT Iron!!!

9. Balance & Coordination
Many Conscious Stretching & Exercise Techniques develop balance, coordination, agility and general motor skills very effectively. This happens, in part, by fine-tuning your nervous system so it feels what’s happening to it and “clearing the channels” that allow your body to react and respond to minute internal and external changes effectively, efficiently and smoothly.

10. Breath Deeper & Easier
Learn Effective & Efficient use of your Breath. Learn how to breathe deeper, easier and longer without forcing or straining the muscles. To get started, you really don’t need to learn HOW to breath. You need to learn how to “dissolve” (RELAX) the tensions that interfere with your breathing. Better breathing brings more oxygen in and toxins out of the body, providing you with greater all around energy levels and less stress.

11. Create “Lines of Energy” & Fluid Movement
Learn how to generate energetic, fluid yet relaxed movement within your bodymind while decompressing your joints and other tissues. Spontaneous internal alignment of your posture is a result of effectively using Lines of Energy, and the more you use them while stretching, the more tension release will happen naturally in your other day-to-day activities.

12. The Art of Relaxation
The “secret” to relaxation is that the ability to relax is already built into your bodymind! Relaxation is not something you learn how “to do”! But you DO have to learn how to Stop Doing Tension!!! “Doing Tension” is why you’re “up tight” (tense) to begin with. In DSL, you will learn how to DE-contract your muscles and Stop Doing Tension.

13. Accessing Parasympathetic Healing States
One of the biggest benefits of relaxation is LESS sympathetic nerve activity. These nerves control the emergency Fight or Flight, Fright or Freeze mechanisms which cause a general increase in muscle tension throughout the entire bodymind. They also shut down important healing and restorative functions, such as digestion, detoxification, and tissue repair. Because of the many stresses of life, most people spend much, if not most, of their time in some degree of “fight or flight” emergency mode and never fully calm down. As a result, the BodyMind is always excessively tense, does not rest fully even when asleep, and never fully restores and repairs itself.

Learning How To Relax moves you OUT of the sympathetic, fight or flight mechanism and into greater parasympathetic nerve activity. This portion of the nervous system controls the many processes associated with maintaining, healing, resting & restoring the bodymind. Many physical (and some psycho-emotional) problems can be reduced or eliminated merely by accessing the parasympathetic nerve state for long enough periods of time, and often enough. … This is a Primary Objective of DSL Let-Go Yoga.

14. Internal Organ Health
The Parasympathetic State will help the health of all your internal organs! … As described above, the healing resources of the body are brought back to proper function in true and deeper relaxation states. These regenerating powers affect all the organs and systems of the body, including immune system function.

AGING . . . Just Don't Do It!!!

15. Talk With Your Body!!!
Internal Biofeedback — Your body talks to you constantly. It tells you many things. Problem is, the body does NOT speak in English, it speaks in Body (language). And if you do not respond soon enough, the body stops telling you certain things. Like a jilted lover, it eventually and literally cuts you off. Yet you can learn to hear or feel messages from your body, interpret them, then take effective action appropriate to messages received. … If it goes too far before you start communicating and responding:

DSL uses its Hands-On PsychoMuscular Release techniques to help you learn to tune into and interpret signals coming from your bodymind, and appropriately respond to them. … Since Your Body ALWAYS Talks to You, Do You Think YOU Should Learn To Listen to IT?

16. “Response-Ability”
As you get better at perceiving and interpreting messages from the body, the nervous system becomes increasingly better at two-way sensory/motor communication. As we practice feeling and using our nerves, they find paths of least resistance and shortest distances to travel. Your ability to provide relevant, timely, appropriate actions as a response to your conditions of life is greatly enhanced.

17. Stress Management
Everything so far on this page leads up to learning to deal with all the stressors we run into nearly every day of our lives. Stress by itself isn’t all bad. In fact much, if not most, stress is necessary for survival and development. However, if it accumulates excessively in our muscles, nerves and organs, it can become unmanageable. In worst case scenarios, it causes loss of freedom of movement, aches and pains, decreased body functions of all types, and worse.

While we can’t eliminate all sources of stress, we can find better ways to respond to or relieve it. You’ll find that stress begins to move through you rather than getting stuck IN you! … DSL will show you many ways to do this internally without relying on an outside therapist, machine or substance. … And Stress Management Includes Stress Reduction!!!

18. Better Circulation of Blood & Lymph
As muscles relax and energy levels increase, the small muscles surrounding the blood vessels also relax, allowing blood to flow more freely through the body. Lymph, the “detox fluid” of the body, moves better with movement, especially if that movement is not excessively tightening up muscles and over-stimulating nerves. The more blood going to and from all your tissues, and the more lymph that's carrying waste matter away, the better the health and function of all systems of your bodymind.

HIgh Blood Pressure can result from the constant antagonistic contractions of skeletal muscles. Reducing the chronic combat between muscle groups can reduce blood pressure.

19. Greater Sensitivity
Nearly every human activity is enhanced when the nervous system is more able to Sense & Feel. The more sensitivity we have, the more information we have about our internal states as well as our environment, including the people around us. The more info we have, the better response we can generate with less stress. We find more satisfaction in life if we can feel what is happening to us. … Pleasure in general is enhanced.

20. Mental Clarity — Emotional Integration — Meditational Experience
There is, in the DSL Yoga process, an opportunity for exploring various aspects and techniques of mind/body integration. One becomes more clear on differences between Awareness & Thought, how they work and complement, as well as conflict with, each other. As one observes how each works, thought begins to quiet down, allowing awareness to bring newness into the human system, to grow and develop.

Expanded Sensitivity and Awareness, Tempered by Effective Thinking, leads to greater Response-Ability, the ability to respond effectively to the conditions of life. Sensitive, feeling states become more aligned with your thinking, analyzing mind. Emotional states become less reactive, yet often deeper and more satisfying. A more meditative relationship with one’s self and world develops.

21. Greater Sexuality
Much decreased pleasure from sexual activity results from decreased sensitivity in the nerves. This decrease can come from neuromuscular units that have become over-contracted, and nerves that have become over-stimulated. All of this can also lead to reduced blood flow. In either case, the ability to feel pleasure can be over-ridden by excess nervous and muscular activity. DSL reduces tension in muscles and decreases stimulation to nerves, in many cases freeing your ability to feel sexual pleasure.

ULTIMATELY, however, it is about the Reduction of C.E.M.&.N.T. or Chronic, Excess Muscle & Nerve Tension. This is the Solution to many of the problems that plague so many people. For more on C.E.M.&.N.T. PLEASE CLICK HERE.

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