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Here's your host, Lucas Rockwood.

Hello and welcome, Lucas Rockwood here with the yoga talk show.

Have some great questions from students this week.

Shannon asks, I have the

yoga body handbook and things are going well but I'm still pretty sore should

I stretch or give my body a rest. So here is my very non-scientific approach to soreness.

If you're so sore, it's normal to wake up in the morning and feel sore if you're doing anything,

any kind of physical training, whether it's running or resistance training or yoga or whatever

it is, very often you're going to wake up in the morning and feel a little sore.

That's normal.

If the soreness doesn't go away when you start moving around and specifically if it doesn't go away

when you're about 10 minutes into your yoga practice, my unscientific method is then you need to take a break.

Take a couple days off, give your body a rest.

If your soreness goes away when you get up and start moving around, in my experience,

I think it's just fine to go right back to stretching especially if you're being careful always

following your breath and being respectful of your body so I'd use that as a rough guide if

you're sore sore that when you start moving around you're still sore give yourself a break second part of the

question am I supposed to be on the back knee when tensing my front thigh and

balancing myself without the support of my arms or should I be using my arms and holding myself in the air for a 20 second hold.

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