"Morning yoga? Ouch! Participants exercise during the inaugural session of World Yoga Conference in Jammu, India. The three-day conference will host over 300 delegates from different countries." Photograph: Strdel/AFP/Getty Images
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Did you know that people with a great deal of extension in their lower back are born like that? It is something determined by the thickness of the intervertebral discs.
Acrobats and contortionists have very thick discs which allow a great deal of movement, particularly in the lumbar spine. No amount of practice will turn someone with genetically thinner discs into someone with thicker ones so trying to emulate the deeper backbends if your body is not built that way will only end in tears!
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