So we see the yoga industry breaking up into a plethora of market niches each giving yoga (the signifier’, the sound) various signification (the signified’, the mental meaning). But we have also seen that it is not just the signified that has changed: also the referent of yoga – the content, the physical reality, the actual practices and their priority, the know-how – are in a perpetual process of change. In semiotics this is called the referent’.
Some market niches genuinely offer new products; others just package known products with other services and meanings. So the commodification does not just have an impact on the formation of new markets but also on the referent – the product itself and the know-how. The yoga popularisers however ignore this power of commodification. They do not realise how the demand and re-contextualisation – which is a reflection of underlying social and cultural processes – forms the referent! The effect of the market happens through a process of selection of the best fitted. The producers of the cultural field – the yoga populariser – who manage to develop and deliver the new product required demanded by the market of yoga sympathisers will prosper. Those who do not will struggle to make a living.
As the keystone of a Roman arch is held up by gravity’s Legs-Up-the-Wall Pose Yoga downward pull, the sacrum is suspended between symmetrical forces of sufficient magnitude to keep the spine Legs-Up-the-Wall Pose Yoga aloft. Figure 10b. The forces and geometry of the sacrum cause small but crucial movements of the sacrum along diagonal axes, called nutation.
Another cause of sacroiliac pain is instability, when the joint is too loose and too mobile rather than tightly bound. However, this occurs rarely with osteoarthritis. Although there are some stabilizing poses in what follows, we focus on increasing sacroiliac movement. If you believe that too much motion is your problem, please consult a physiatrist, osteopath, or physical therapist before embarking on these poses. The Anusara Yoga principles, consistent with Mr.
