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Some yoga high points
Mar. 5th, 2008 10:28 pmIn yoga tonight we did one-legged crow pose on both sides, and I freaking love that because it makes me feel like a rock star. I almost always get a "nice, ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
flexagon" from the teacher, if only because I can hold it for long enough that they usually see me as they scan the room.
Also learned a neat trick having to do with backbends. It's possible to do a backbend and lift one hand/arm up next to the body -- I may have even posted about this the first time I did it. Tonight I learned you can keep that hand going around, and actually grab the ankle. So, you're in a backbend but with one hand holding onto the ipsilateral ankle. It feels pretty crazy... I really wish I had a picture.
(I'm even more happy now because I used "ipsilateral" in a real sentence for the first time. It means "occurring on the same side of the body".)
My back bugged me just a smidgen from the backbends, in the same area I hurt last week. Not much though. It's gone already.
Pose of the month is lotus, I should mention, so I'm not headed for much more glory in the near future. Have to savor the little moments I get. Lotus is all about "I'm not hurting my knee, am I? oh, please let me not hurt my knees." Some people care so much about getting into lotus, it's really a high-injury-rate activity. Who needs it?
flexagon" from the teacher, if only because I can hold it for long enough that they usually see me as they scan the room. Also learned a neat trick having to do with backbends. It's possible to do a backbend and lift one hand/arm up next to the body -- I may have even posted about this the first time I did it. Tonight I learned you can keep that hand going around, and actually grab the ankle. So, you're in a backbend but with one hand holding onto the ipsilateral ankle. It feels pretty crazy... I really wish I had a picture.
(I'm even more happy now because I used "ipsilateral" in a real sentence for the first time. It means "occurring on the same side of the body".)
My back bugged me just a smidgen from the backbends, in the same area I hurt last week. Not much though. It's gone already.
Pose of the month is lotus, I should mention, so I'm not headed for much more glory in the near future. Have to savor the little moments I get. Lotus is all about "I'm not hurting my knee, am I? oh, please let me not hurt my knees." Some people care so much about getting into lotus, it's really a high-injury-rate activity. Who needs it?
