Vanda scaravelli awakening the spine

Awakening the Spine is sort of an odd book.

It looks like an easy read, there are a lot of pictures, but there are some points she makes about yoga and our bodies that I've never read about before.

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Scaravelli-inspired yoga focuses on working with gravity, dropping the bones towards the earth and extending the spine upwards.

Awakening the Spine offers a gentle way to achieve and maintain overall health and a naturally supple spine at any age.

Vanda Scaravelli's book makes an exposition of yoga as an art.

Vanda Scaravelli continues to practise using gravity and the breath to ride the body's own wave.

The most fascinating to me is the significance she places on the lower back, a point where the body extends upwards and downwards at the same time as a result of gravity - a sort of magical junction.

For example, in this analogy that compares a tree to a body she writes, "This central point of the tree, where it touches the earth's surface, corresponds in our body to the waist at the level of the fifth lumbar vertebra, where the human spine moves in both directions.

Goethe said that he could understand the falling of the apple (that gave Newton the idea of gravity) but he could not understand how a tree could grow in two opposite directions. This inexplicable co