I love this, look at the colours...
a beautiful Kapo tucked away discreetly in a doorway of a backstreet of Mysore, wonderful. This is Maria Shalimova who teaches at Ashtanga Yoga School Moscow. You can probably spot her somewhere on the led Primary streamed from there yesterday. That stream is still up and running by the way although now it's an improved quality version, here's the Link.
http://ashtangamoscow.com
See my previous post about practicing along with the live stream.
But here's Maria's kapo in a doorway in india.
Not sure I could still reach my toes let alone my ankles again at the moment, been a long time since I practiced kapo, was tempted this morning after managing some dropbacks but don't want to push it. I hear there may be a little of intermediate series on Manju's workshop in a fortnight, hmmmm
After the delight, nay exhilaration, of getting all the way through Sharath's Led from Moscow intact yesterday, so full of beans that I felt like going again... reality checks.
A led of course can hide a multitude of sins on the way back to practice, as you race on from one posture to the next, doing the best semblance of a pose that you can before moving on....playing catch up.
This morning, practicng alone there was no hiding from the fact, my practice has overgrown
....there's a lot of fuzz
What IS going on with my Supta kurmasana, I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing, it's....
like a virgin,
making Supta k for the very first time
like a...... well you get the idea
Couldn't get that ruddy song out of my head
I've held off the Dwi pada sirsasana (both legs behind head) entry for a bit, erring on the side of caution, deciding on the primary approach instead, must have managed it yesterday in Sharath's led but with time to think about it this morning I had no idea what I was up to. Trying to cross the ankles I was dragging the sides of the mat in, getting in a right mess....
I seem to remember I did a tutorial a while back called the Supta K shuffle, should watch it back, if nothing else I'll get to see if any of my old videos were any use at all.
Fell off to the side in Garbha pindasana and forgot how to rock back up...
: )
Had to have three goes at my beloved baddha konasana before I was able to fold forward.
: (
Still, I'm doing a full series of sorts, getting some strength and fitness back, the flexibility will come, the technique return...if I can get six full primary's in a row...
Oh and drop backs, second time I've given them a shot, bit stiff but managed to go down and up three times....mazes me that once you get the backbends you never seem to lose them again completely, just goes to show how much of it is about fear and technique rather than flexibility.
I'm actually enjoying this process despite everything, how curious it is to approach the practice from the perspective of retracing ones steps, I'll reclaim the postures of course, it's just work but there are lessons here...
I should write a series of posts
Posts to the the me starting Primary..... Not that I'd listen, but you knew that already.
And perhaps you have to go through the process discover what is and isn't important in the practice or less necessary or of less lasting concern.
I ask myself often why I practice Ashtanga as Ashtanga, vinyasa Krama in the guise of Ashtanga... same as above, there are lessons to be learned, good ones.
Perhaps the beginnings of a glimmering of ritual and discipline and devotion, of commitment and how these are necessary tools for what comes next....Ashtanga is a foundational practice, whatever series we happen to be working on.
a beautiful Kapo tucked away discreetly in a doorway of a backstreet of Mysore, wonderful. This is Maria Shalimova who teaches at Ashtanga Yoga School Moscow. You can probably spot her somewhere on the led Primary streamed from there yesterday. That stream is still up and running by the way although now it's an improved quality version, here's the Link.
http://ashtangamoscow.com
See my previous post about practicing along with the live stream.
But here's Maria's kapo in a doorway in india.
Not sure I could still reach my toes let alone my ankles again at the moment, been a long time since I practiced kapo, was tempted this morning after managing some dropbacks but don't want to push it. I hear there may be a little of intermediate series on Manju's workshop in a fortnight, hmmmm
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The way back( to practice) -10 : Reality checkAfter the delight, nay exhilaration, of getting all the way through Sharath's Led from Moscow intact yesterday, so full of beans that I felt like going again... reality checks.
A led of course can hide a multitude of sins on the way back to practice, as you race on from one posture to the next, doing the best semblance of a pose that you can before moving on....playing catch up.
This morning, practicng alone there was no hiding from the fact, my practice has overgrown
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....there's a lot of fuzz
What IS going on with my Supta kurmasana, I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing, it's....
like a virgin,
making Supta k for the very first time
like a...... well you get the idea
Couldn't get that ruddy song out of my head
I've held off the Dwi pada sirsasana (both legs behind head) entry for a bit, erring on the side of caution, deciding on the primary approach instead, must have managed it yesterday in Sharath's led but with time to think about it this morning I had no idea what I was up to. Trying to cross the ankles I was dragging the sides of the mat in, getting in a right mess....
I seem to remember I did a tutorial a while back called the Supta K shuffle, should watch it back, if nothing else I'll get to see if any of my old videos were any use at all.
Fell off to the side in Garbha pindasana and forgot how to rock back up...
: )
Had to have three goes at my beloved baddha konasana before I was able to fold forward.
: (
Still, I'm doing a full series of sorts, getting some strength and fitness back, the flexibility will come, the technique return...if I can get six full primary's in a row...
Oh and drop backs, second time I've given them a shot, bit stiff but managed to go down and up three times....mazes me that once you get the backbends you never seem to lose them again completely, just goes to show how much of it is about fear and technique rather than flexibility.
I'm actually enjoying this process despite everything, how curious it is to approach the practice from the perspective of retracing ones steps, I'll reclaim the postures of course, it's just work but there are lessons here...
I should write a series of posts
Posts to the the me starting Primary..... Not that I'd listen, but you knew that already.
And perhaps you have to go through the process discover what is and isn't important in the practice or less necessary or of less lasting concern.
I ask myself often why I practice Ashtanga as Ashtanga, vinyasa Krama in the guise of Ashtanga... same as above, there are lessons to be learned, good ones.
Perhaps the beginnings of a glimmering of ritual and discipline and devotion, of commitment and how these are necessary tools for what comes next....Ashtanga is a foundational practice, whatever series we happen to be working on.