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...first practiced posterior stretching. Sitting with his legs stretched out he hooked his forefingers over his big toes and touched his knees with his head. This "brings a rich supply of blood to the pelvic organs and tones up the nerves arising from the lower part of the spine...
Next came the plow posture, "one of the finest exercises for keeping the spine flexible and the nerves healthy." The disciple lies on his back, slowly brings legs and torso over his head until the toes touch the floor and he can gaze only at his navel...
Yogins have eight different ways of breathing. Most effective posture for breathing is the lotus. One sits crosslegged, spine and head erect, hands crossed palm-upward on the lap, eyes focused either at the tip or the root of the nose. Expert yogins hold their breath four times as long as it takes them to inhale, and take the equivalent of two inhalation periods to exhale. Thus their breathing ratio is 1:4:2. They inhale once every two minutes. Beginners, advises Dr. Behanan, had better use at 1:2:2 rhythm, to prevent dizziness and anoxemia...
...Examiner launch. It was an hour between the diver's smash and medical attention for him at a hospital. There, for hours, the shocked mother and the wife (three months with child) faced the alternative of their man's death from a severed spinal cord and ruptured spine, or his recovery with life-long paralysis. Scooped, the Examiner's editors could only groan as the first editions of the Chronicle screamed the ill-fated stunt through San Francisco with a five-column front-page picture...
...best, least fatiguing posture and movement those unit masses of flesh and bone, she reasons, should counter-balance so that the body's centre of gravity lies in the sacrum (base of the spine). When the human animal stands properly erect, an imaginary line should cut the nose, chin, breastbone and crotch. Another imaginary line should drop from the mastoid, in front of the shoulder joint, through the elbow and little finger (palm turned to the rear), side of knee and ankle. This is achieved by standing with feet together, shoulders held back, abdomen tucked in, buttocks clenched...