using yoga as warm up

[Anonymous]

good day,

anybody: thoughts regarding using a short (30 minute) hatha yoga set as a warm up for full qigong/tai chi sets? practiced yoga for 30 years and feel a need the stretch, however, on the other hand, it seems to be a contradiction with the basic overall concept of internal arts in the water tradition. also with yogic pranayama with it’s alternate nostril breathing, held breaths and rapid pumping of the diaphragm.

any advice and or experience would be highly regarded…

cheers,

daniel

[Anonymous]

Hi Daniel.
I, too, have practiced yoga for decades.
I’ve usually found that yoga and taiji are very compatible.

This winter I strained my lower back shoveling snow.
Although Bruce may have fixed his broken back with Wu Style taiji, it was doing nothing to resolve my back pain.

As I monitored the website of YogaInternational.com, I saw an eCourse, “Yoga for Lower Back Pain”

Of course, there are many other yoga regimes for back pain.
But this one really worked for me.
A morning stretch routine is shown.
And the lower back pain series shows 3 stretches to realign the sacro-Iliac joint.
In Bruce’s “Tai Chi Mastery Program” he includes an Appendix on “How Does Tai Chi Differ from Yoga?”

How we use our bodies and minds and breath depends on our purposes.

No big contradictions.
When doing taiji, do taiji.
When doing yoga do yoga–but be careful with the spine twisting postures.

Best regards,
Bob
Post Falls, idaho

[Anonymous]

thanks robert,

i know the yogainternational.com/ people, good stuff.

yeah, do yoga when doing yoga, and qigong when doing qigong.

sometimes i over complicate.

thanks

daniel

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