Stretching is a method to stretch and make more elastic, supple, relaxed our muscles, tendons and fascias.
Principles of stretching:
1) Variety. Stretch all myofascial tracks in a whole range of movements.
2) Intuition. Listen to your body. If your body tells you that some tracks need to be stretch more spend there as much time your intuition tells you.
3) Relax. Try to be as relaxed as possible. Meditate to relax stretched tissue and be aware the antagonistic muscles haven’t undesirable tension.
4) No pain. Pain is counterproductive – tensing you up. Do it easily with pleasure.
5) Breathing. Breathing is an aspect very closely linked to stretching. You can support your motion with breathing. Stretching has a different quality with inhaling and exhaling.
Stretching is mechanically flexed or stretched using skeleton. Soft tissue is passive during stretching. You can to multiplay effect of stretching by to adding the aspect of active expanding. Expanding is a mental exercise – dynamic meditation, where we actively expand from inside of the tissue.