The shoulder torture pose...

This isn't the actual name, just what it looks like. After seeing it the first time I thought to myself that I'd never actually let someone do it to me nor would I ever inflict it upon someone else. Instantly I was called upon to be the demonstratee...ahh!

I took some deep breaths and awaited the agony, but was startled at how good it felt to have my Rhomboids elbowed while that same arm was extended over my head and pulled backward. What a release in all muscles scapular. Then the second half of the torture pose, you know the one you see cops or feel big brothers put you in to insure your compliance...hand up the back. Again, gripped for 'non feel goods' for my 15 year old post-op shoulders, I breathed as instructed and the opening in my frontal shoulder muscles and the accupressure in my rhomboids was HEAVENLY! I love this pose. I do it on all of my Thai Partner Yoga clients.

While studying anatomy for the 16 hours required for Thai Partner Yoga practitioners, I rejoiced in the book and study guide like I usually do (Where was this book when I was in college and studied books with greyed out cadaver muscles that I could smell as clearly as if I was in the anatomy lab?), then I was in awe at seeing the symphony of muscle contractions that allowed that pose to even exist, let alone the pressure points and openings I was doing to the giver's arm passively while they breathed in that pose.

Amazing stuff and just one of the many bliss inducing poses of Thai Partner Yoga.

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