Active/passive QL +' 90-90' stretch
Fundamental squat & hip-mobility development
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THE WHAT:
An explorative and potentially therapeutic stretching context combining breathing, loading, and tension-modulation. As the inhale couples with an 'active' stretch to tighten the structure, the exhale relaxes 'passively' into any deeper range of frontal spinal-flexion "allowed" by the nervous system.
In this way, a form of ‘contract/relax’ execution is affected which allows the practitioner to initially notice, and potentially release any “superficial” blockages either in the range of external hip-rotation (elicited by the ’90-90’ form), or in the lumbar-spine (namely the quadratus lumborum/’QL’).
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