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flexagon ([personal profile] flexagon) wrote2006-12-28 08:57 am

Transfiguration.

[livejournal.com profile] flexagon: I want to tell you what I did in yoga tonight, but it might sound dirty.
[livejournal.com profile] heisenbug: You should only tell me what you did in yoga if it sounds dirty.
[livejournal.com profile] flexagon: I flipped my dog tonight! On both sides!
[livejournal.com profile] heisenbug: Wow. Um.
[livejournal.com profile] flexagon: I did. It was great.
[livejournal.com profile] heisenbug: ...did the dog like it?
[livejournal.com profile] flexagon: No, probably not... it got changed into something else.
[livejournal.com profile] heisenbug: Whoa. Transfiguration.

Flipping the dog means starting in downward dog and turning it inside out to become a backbend. I've never quite been able to do it before because I've been too afraid of twisting one of my wrists... but it turns out to mostly be okay as long as I take most of the stretch into my back instead. Very cool, definitely one of the moves that only a couple of people in each given class can usually do.

I also successfully did tripod headstand to revolved koundinyasana for the first time. Well, success on the left side, partial success on the right side. I'm pretty sure I know what to work on to make it better.