Sunday, 16 August 2026

First time coming up from Urdhva Dhanurasana

While I'm able to come up from UD following a dropback, I've never managed to come up from a straight Urdhva Dhanurasana. Quite surprised me this morning when it happened. This last week I've been feeling comfortable taking a couple of steps in and feeling my weight shift more towards my legs, all it took was a couple of rocks back and forth and a good inhale and I was up.

A few months back when I was focusing on backbends and trying to come up I felt that trying to come straight up from UD potentially put too much strain on the back. It somehow felt less of a strain to try and come up after dropping back, for that reason I haven't tried coming up that seriously until this morning. Guess I was just ready.

I left a dropback on the end of the video because I don't usually video these up close like this, thought it gave a clear view on how I'm going about it at the moment.

4 comments:

susananda said...

Congratulations! Yet another breakthrough :)

Fatou said...

Bravo, Grimmly. It's official, I am your fan.
To be able to do get this far by practicing on your own, with books and DVDs, I am totally in awe of you.

Liz said...

You may now proceed to intermediate.
HA HA HA!!!!

great job!

Grimmly said...

Thanks, love it when something surprises you like this, It's like, "Oh OK, that's how it works"... and I can now progress to Intermediate without getting any hate mail.
And a Fan : ) Saw your wordle Fatou, how did you get 'vicious' in there?

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