Flexibility and Hypermobility in Yoga

The most sustainable way to work with flexibility is to focus on improved range of motion and improved strength together, not going too much into one direction or another, as too little stress on the joints creates atrophy and too much, progressive degeneration. If the focus is only on passive flexibility or stretching without concentrating on the strength to maintain it in time, then the risk of injury is always going to be present. Ideally we should never feel the stretching sensations in our joints directly, because this affects in time the ligaments which are not elastic by nature so they have a tendency to tear.