{"id":24293,"date":"2020-01-10T03:55:38","date_gmt":"2020-01-10T11:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/?p=24293"},"modified":"2020-01-10T17:30:27","modified_gmt":"2020-01-11T01:30:27","slug":"the-silicon-valley-trend-the-natural-c-curve-neck-morphing-into-straight-neck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/yoga\/the-silicon-valley-trend-the-natural-c-curve-neck-morphing-into-straight-neck\/","title":{"rendered":"The Silicon Valley trend: The natural C-curve neck morphing into Straight neck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&amp; so what&#8217;s wrong with that?<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, plenty &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Straight neck means that the cervical spine has lost the natural swan like graceful supple C-shaped curve that better supported and balanced the weight of our head (10 lbs and up) and that reduced flexibility leads to:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; always a compensation takes place from one part of the body to another &#8211; burdened shoulders suffering tension, tightness, stiffness, straight in the case of cervical spine means &#8230; stiffness!<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; caving in and forward affect of slumping posture<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; sagging affect in the front of the neck<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; creating more deep lines and fine wrinkles on throat area and over time &#8230; let the drum roll &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; droopy or even onset of premature double chin especially vulnerable after a common weight gain which happens for most of us after the holiday season !<\/p>\n<p>Yes &#8230; it&#8217;s scary lol<\/p>\n<p>Incorporating in the practice some techniques from ~ of course,\u00a0 Yoga !<\/p>\n<p>Take a Before photo &#8230; and let&#8217;s compare with an After photo after a month &#8230; then 2 months &#8230; I am confident that if you follow my instructions, a transformation, however subtle will take place. Most true transformation is not an instant miracle but gradual and subtle &#8230; over time.<\/p>\n<p>Normal C-Curve\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-24289\" src=\"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/img_3400.jpg\" width=\"438\" height=\"331\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-24291\" src=\"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/img_3401.jpg\" width=\"358\" height=\"271\" \/>Straight Neck aka Tech Neck<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s an actual x-ray photo of a techie<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-24290\" src=\"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/img_3403.jpg\" width=\"299\" height=\"226\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-24292\" src=\"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/img_3422.jpg\" width=\"420\" height=\"317\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&amp; so what&#8217;s wrong with that? Unfortunately, plenty &#8230; Straight neck means that the cervical spine has lost the natural swan like graceful supple C-shaped curve that better supported and balanced the weight of our head (10 lbs and up) and that reduced flexibility leads to: &#8211; always a compensation takes place from one part [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[10,3],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24293"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24293"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24304,"href":"https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24293\/revisions\/24304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}