Seems I haven't done a post like this for ages but was having fun with this so why not.
And besides
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"My teacher (Pattabhi Jois) would recommend that students who felt very tight in their hips hold this pose for up to fifty breaths".from Kino Macgregor's new book The power of Ashtanga yoga.
I explored fifty breaths the morning after I first read that in kino's book (thought I might be stuck in that position for ever), also twenty-five long slow ones, this time ten slow breaths with recheka kumbhaka (retaining breath after exhalation) with deep uddiyana. I added Gomukhasana as a counter, here holding the bottom knee rather than the top.
I have a dodgy right knee from old old ops thought this might be a good way to open the hips more and thus taking more strain off the knee throughout the practice.
Krishnamacharya writes about exploring the breath this way.
"BADDHAKONASANA combined with any pranayama NADISODHANA, SITALI or UJJAYI will be found effective. At the beginning the pranayama should be done with kumbhakam i.e., retention of the breath and all anuloma" Krishnamacharya-Yoga Makaranda Part II. p114
Short Shorts I know but don't worry, Nike drifit pro's are fully lined....nothing to see here folks
Navasana to handstand
This seems to be a spin off from the post I put up recently about sucking the femurs up into the pelvis and holding them with the bandhas has had an effect on floating up to handstand in the surys and in jumping through with straight legs and now with this too. See THIS post.
I stopped exploring the party tricks for a long time but have recently started looking them again as there's interesting bandha and pelvis work going on here that I'm having fun exploring again. This is the first one of these i ever managed. Bit of a cheat as I don't do a proper lift up before taking it up into handstand, this is more of a stage along the way.
And besides
"My teacher (Pattabhi Jois) would recommend that students who felt very tight in their hips hold this pose for up to fifty breaths".from Kino Macgregor's new book The power of Ashtanga yoga.
I explored fifty breaths the morning after I first read that in kino's book (thought I might be stuck in that position for ever), also twenty-five long slow ones, this time ten slow breaths with recheka kumbhaka (retaining breath after exhalation) with deep uddiyana. I added Gomukhasana as a counter, here holding the bottom knee rather than the top.
I have a dodgy right knee from old old ops thought this might be a good way to open the hips more and thus taking more strain off the knee throughout the practice.
Krishnamacharya writes about exploring the breath this way.
"BADDHAKONASANA combined with any pranayama NADISODHANA, SITALI or UJJAYI will be found effective. At the beginning the pranayama should be done with kumbhakam i.e., retention of the breath and all anuloma" Krishnamacharya-Yoga Makaranda Part II. p114
Short Shorts I know but don't worry, Nike drifit pro's are fully lined....nothing to see here folks
Navasana to handstand
This seems to be a spin off from the post I put up recently about sucking the femurs up into the pelvis and holding them with the bandhas has had an effect on floating up to handstand in the surys and in jumping through with straight legs and now with this too. See THIS post.
I stopped exploring the party tricks for a long time but have recently started looking them again as there's interesting bandha and pelvis work going on here that I'm having fun exploring again. This is the first one of these i ever managed. Bit of a cheat as I don't do a proper lift up before taking it up into handstand, this is more of a stage along the way.
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UPDATE.
Nope, watched it again, definitely cheating...