By Claire Diab and Dennis Boyle
Sun Salutations is a beautiful series of movements that flow with the breath. It is a simple yet powerful technique for everyone to learn, especially athletes, which you truly are.
Sun Salutations strengthens and lengthens every major muscle of your body. These movements create and maintain balance of the left and right sides of body by nourishing and calming the central nervous system.
These movements also strengthen and create balance for the left and right hemispheres of your brain, which awakens creativity and logic. This is extremely important to your job; you have great demands in moments where decisions have to be made quickly, requiring logic and creativity.
I have created a new way of doing Sun Salutations, which incorporates the Six Directions of the Spine. It adds a new dimension to this beautiful series of movements.
It has been said and written in so many books and cultures: “The key to health and longevity is through a healthy spine.”
NAMASTE
Claire Diab is an internationally recognized yoga therapist. She is the director of the Yoga Program for the Chopra Center founded by Dr. Deepak Chopra and Dr. David Simon. She is an adjunct professor of Asian Studies at Seton Hall University. She is the author of several books and DVDs on yoga including “Yoga for Firefighters.”
Dennis Boyle is a retired fire director and acting chief with the West Orange (NJ) Fire Department. He was the recipient of the 1999 New Jersey Deputy Fire Chiefs “Fire Officer of the Year” award.
