If your sanpai* is heavy, it is because your head is full,
empty your head and find the path of prostration.
Empty sanpai: all the expectations, projections of your mind, all the mental material, blocks access to prostration.
An empty mind finds the path back to sanpai.
*prosternation in Zen practice.
Notes & Silence 
I find the idea of prostration strange. But, then, I find all issues of posture a little odd. At best, an outward manifestation of an inner attitude.
Before what does a creature, that bears a part of the divine flame within, prostrate him or her self? Perhaps, in mutual recognition of that divinity, before others who do likewise. Not that there is anything other than courtesy, here. A nod, or handshake, or silent acknowledgement of any sort, does just as well.
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Yes I agree with you.
But silence being the answer to everything, …
A long as there are slices of flesh attached to this body..
Prostration feels much nicer than, let’s say, weight lifting.
Plus, there is a director correlation with the Sun Salutation…a bit like a movement version of finding back our slippers at night,
Of removing ski shoes at he end of the day,
But applied to our body/ mind complex.
‘Slippers for body- mind’ would have made a possible title.
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Well, if that is how you relax…
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