Beginning to think this might be doable. Richard does it by getting some momentum going kind of like I'm doing here but he seems to get a flick in his head that gives him that little extra. Seems to be about coordination. Finding it helps to keep the lotus really tight and moving the knees towards each other.
Which brings me to my lotus or rather trying to jump back from lotus......Are you kidding!!! OK, I guess I can come out of lotus quickly enough from karandavasana, especially when falling, but my lotus there is pretty loose. Here, in Supta V I have my lotus as tight as I can make it. How the heck are you supposed to unravel that in the middle of a jump back. Have tried binding and unbinding while watching TV or reading but it doesn't seem to be helping., can't seem to unbind without using my hands.
This unassisted version seems to be very different from the assisted.
PS I filmed my sad Knackedrasana, just waiting to download the Deliverance soundtrack before I post it.
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See, this is the kind of thing that keeps me coming back here.
First, I just finished a DVD doc on spaghetti westerns, so that soundtrack is fantastic (I thought this anyway; Owl and I have communicated before about Leone's fairly undisputable magnificence).
Lotus jumpback: I regularly throw one back onto my knees, and once in a while, can undo it and land on toes. Lotus up to chest is key, and then it's jumpback strategies: head down, hips up. The more hang time you can get, the easier it is to move the knees apart and then just command yourself: CHATURANGA!!
Oh and that bit about the Deliverance soundtrack will be making me laugh spontaneously all day.
Bigger pillow. I roll up a black manduka and wedge it tightly into the sacrum. Then actually aim the elbows so they land on the mat. But that's my architecture. Somehow you'll find the proportions to cantilver right up.
"a black manduka" how many of those expensive little buggers do you have lying around? Will try the landing elbows on some spare 'cheap', rolled up tatty mat that i may have hidden away : ), was doing Primary today... But don't you think it's a completely different asana from the assisted version?
Glad you like it Patrick, tell me more about your doc DVD, would like to see that. And the fistfull suite on the other one, hadn't heard that before.
Gave the lotus jump back a try this morning but landed on my knees, ouch. THIS is hard. I like your command idea...if only it were that easy. "KARADAVASANA", yay, "KAPOTASANA" da da, "NAKROSANA"....
Yes, completely different for me. Assisted is a thoracic and cervical extention that opens across the frontal hip flexors over the ASIS. Un is proprioception, MB and the internal obliques deep in the low belly. Both great.
I have one black. For me is enough to sit on the front tail of it and reach back to roll up the rest right in to the sacrum, then give the roll a push so it unfurls on its own when I'm done. Takes coordination to make it a part of your body and give it its own vinyasa, but Martin would approve.
Said DVD is called "The Spaghetti West," and was made for the Indy Film Channel. I got it on Netflix, as I get all my video stuff from there nowadays.
Yes, wouldn't it be marvelous to just put your forearms down and say, "KARANDA!" and have it happen?
Love the soundtracks!!
I just skip supta vaj at home (bind and drop head back) - couldn't get the rolled up mat to work and the low coffee table solution is unsatisfying.. but if I didn't practise in a shala most of the time, that would not be an adequate solution. Maybe I should start thinking of it as a different pose, like Owl says. It's not at all the same without someone holding your knees.
As for the jumpback, undoing the lotus is the easy part, it's swinging the lotus back that's hard! You can test this by trying the way I do (cheating) - put your elbows in your stomach and lift lotus, kind of like mayurasana with forward hands. You will have no problem undoing your legs I'm sure..
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