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Stretching makes our muscles, tendons, and fascias longer, more elastic, supple, and relaxed.
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 stretched more, spend as much time there as your intuition tells you.
3) Relax. Try to be as relaxed as possible. Meditate to relax stretched tissue and be aware that the antagonistic muscles don’t have undesirable tension.
4) No pain. Pain is counterproductive – tensing you up. Do it easily with pleasure.
5) Breathing. Breathing is very closely linked to stretching. You can support your motion with breathing. Inhaling and exhaling have different qualities when stretching.
Stretching is mechanically flexed or stretched using a skeleton. Soft tissue is passive during stretching. You can multiply the effect of stretching by adding the aspect of active expanding. Expanding is a mental exercise—dynamic meditation—where we actively expand from inside the tissue.
To improve classic stretching and regular yoga, it is good to enrich it with the following:
1) Active expanding
2) Waving movements