In my primary I'm finally working on Jumping Back and Through with alternate leading legs. I need this for Intermediate and it's long over due, something I wish I'd done from the beginning. Did better than I thought I would this morning but jumping into asanas is still pretty lame, especially with my left leg leading, something it just refuses to do.
I carried on through to Kapo and did a couple of dropbacks, coming up once, before finishing. Kapo and dropbacks were hard today, probably because of this cold. I stayed in bed with it yesterday and had to stop every five minutes through practice this morning to blow my nose.
Managed to consolidate my Come up from Laghuvajrasana though.
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It seems to be coming from the Vastus lateralis rather than the Quadricept,on the right just above the knee at least that's where I'm feeling the ache and where I'm focusing my attention.
Intermediate was pretty much OK up until Karandavasana, all very much work in progress from there, fun but exhausting. Still can't bind in Dwi pada Sirasana without falling over and having to prop my back against the wall but it's much closer, especially now the weather is getting warmer and I'm getting more sweaty.
The video below is of trying to work out the shoulder stand to backbend that Patrick suggested from the Sweeney book as a stage towards the tick tock. Again just working out the basic idea of how it would work before I dive right in.
Starting to have second thoughts about the tick tock thing. Been throwing in a Viparita Chakrasana on all my jump backs to standing in the Surys this afternoon and the thought of allowing that drop into backbend scares the bejesus out of me, am in no rush. Probably because I've always had my wall as a security blanket, practicing at home. I'm sure that for many the drop to backbend from handstand isn't such a big deal as it's the standard safe way to fall and doing it from Viparita Chakrasana is only a small step up from that.
Just remembered I tried it once after watching a Yogagarden Youtube video on coming off the wall http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbnZhGeNS4g&feature=channel_page Anyway gave it a go and this is what happened.
Haven't tried it since.
Hi to M. Hope you had a good flight, give my love to the family x
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This past Thursday, my Iyengar teacher had me working with the shoulder stand to bridge back to shoulder stand - it's hard!
However, it does make complete sense when the energetics of the pose align and it actually works smoothly. Both legs moving simultaneously...
I might videotape myself doing that dropping into backbend from shoulderstand....I can TOTALLY do it. HOWEVER, I am quite quite quite far from doing a tic toc, if ever. In fact, I don't see the connection at all. In my opinion, the logical "prep" is headstand to backbend and then hop back over. THAT is VERY much like a tic toc. Try that tomorrow!
Nice work on the shoulderstand backbending! I too did it one leg at a time at the start, and I found it useful to think, "do a backbend," from the shoulderstand. All the same elements apply: ribs "up" (that is, toward the head), shoulder blades "down" (toward the hips), hips "forward" (toward the face side), feet drop over. I also usually switch my hands from fingers-toward-glutes to fingers-out-to-side (as if I'm doing a suppported bridge).
Now the fun fun fun of the Uddi Krama is that in this same sequence, you walk the feet around in a circle, flipflopping from bridge to plow and back :D
Re the first video: HEAD UP LAST!
Pedant's corner: vastus lateralis IS one of the quadriceps.. not sure what that part was about, you are having pain there? Be very cautious in laghu if so..
On tictocs: I've also done what you did in the last video.. and managed to refine it a LITTLE :) but still scared to do it. I can also do vrshchikasana with minimal assistance and drop over.. so this part is all mental. The toc, however, is genuinely frigging hard. I tried it once and my feet wouldn't budge, and it was VERY intense in the shoulders. Boodi is the best blogger on tictocs that I know of.. Anyway, if anyone can self-teach it, I think it's you, so can't wait to see how it goes :)
No Susan, not a bad pain just one of those aches you get when you know that you've been working a muscle for the first time, not pulled just used.
Been following Boodi's tick tocks from Goa blog, good reading.
yes yes HEAD UP LAST, HEAD UP LAST, think i need to take up chanting after all : )
Beautiful light.
You're doing intelligent work here.
Susan's comments are all amazing.
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