Polarity Yoga for Health - Simple Stretches for All Ages

And just below the transverse arch, the STOMACH AND LIVER RESPONSE is obtained.

The sorest part on the foot level is the real lesion or energy block which needs help. Chart No.4 from Vitality Balance (which is reproduced in this chapter in miniature) tells the story in the curved lines across the bottom of the feet. This is a new and specific application of Polarity Yoga fulcrum support and leverage for Health - RIGHT NOW, and all who have used it have benefited greatly by it. That is the Health-Building and maintaining Yoga, when rightly understood and practised [practiced].

Please note that the shoulder level base and the hip level base must be engaged simultaneously in the one stretching posture to move the gross energy blocks by means of the subtle energy in the united action on both levels. Unfortunately, many yoga postures practised [practiced] today are not designed for the health needs of the students.

All this should ideally be taught in personally conducted classes and by doctors to their patients by actual demonstration,^* and practised [practiced] then and there by those who are interested in their own health and well-being and in helping others to attain and maintain it. Doctors will find this most valuable for themselves and for their patients, if they will personally demonstrate it to the patients and insist upon their doing it for five minutes daily as their part in the process of getting and staying well.

Many patients have come to me who were experts in Yoga as it is generally taught, and some of them were even Yoga Teachers; yet they had problems that could not be solved by all their Yoga practices, and they were greatly impressed and relieved by Polarity Yoga, as personally demonstrated to them. Acting by leverage application through opposite tension

* However, readers who are unable to consult a Polarity Therapy practitioner for such an in-person lesson can still benefit greatly by studying the illustrations and photos in this book and learning the exercises through experience.