"Inversions" workshop II

[flexagon]

I just got back from a long-awaited inversions workshop with Ana Forrest, who's a big name in the western yoga world.

This is the kind of thing Ana's famous for:



So one wonders where, in this workshop, the inversions went. In two and a half hours we did two forearm stand poses, one handstand and no headstands. We did do some evil, boot-campy ab work, some pranayama I wasn't familiar with, and some sequences leading up to koundinyasana, one-legged crow and an (admittedly very cool) shoulderstand variation called twisted cypress. Perhaps I should be more forgiving -- one-legged crow is almost an inversion if you get the free leg up really high -- but I just don't feel forgiving. For this I risked my hamstring, even though I quit my regular yoga studio for a month to avoid reinjuring it? Bah. I feel like I've barely been upside-down today.

Comments

[figmint.livejournal.com]

Do you do Forrest yoga? Do you like it?

[nevers.livejournal.com]

i don't, so i don't really know her particular reasons for favoring the toes-spread technique. but i've had instructors suggest it before and i play around with it. mostly when i'm getting tired of pointing my feet. i'm an acrobat, so i have to point my feet most of the time.