Being able to touch your toes is about a common barometer and ultimate goal for back health as there has ever been. In modern postural yoga the pose that involves folding the torso over straightened legs has a name, uttanasana – from the Sanskrit for “intense stretch.”
Yoga Body/Yoga Mind: the prima materia
The unconscious is a container for everything we have yet to realize in waking life, as well as everything we leave behind, unaddressed, un-realized, repressed. This is our “dark matter,” the shadow of our consciousness.