Exteroception, Proprioception, Interoception, Compression and Tensile Stress

medicine, history, philosophy

What are the three main things yoga can be viewed as?

sensations

Yoga directs your attention to your own __________

child’s pose

What pose does yoga normally start with? This keeps us from seeing outside things

exteroception

the five senses being used on things outside of us; we do this everyday

• ex: watching a movie, noticing the color of a flower

interoception

contact with object in organs in torso, or viscera (behind musculoskeletal system)

• ex: full bladder, racing heart, stomach growling

proprioception

sense of touch inside muscle fibers, tendons, and joints that tell us where limbs are; internal sense of musculoskeletal system

• Ex: knowing hand’s position without looking

generating proprioception

done by applying stress to muscles, tendons, ligaments, and fascia in the body

compressive stress

shorten tissues when bones get closer; builds strength

tensile stress

lengthen tissues when bones get further; improves range of motion; can only be done when a tissue crosses a joint, changing the distance of a bone

stations

where muscles/tissues connect to bone

tracks

muscles/tissues being compressed/lengthened between end points