Ego diminishment service
Posted in ashtanga yoga on 09/07/2007 08:19 am by karenSilence on the way to practice.
Van Morrison on the way back.
VBG busy with others but swings by for supta kurmasana and baddha konasana. Then off again, into other parts of the room. Fine by me; I can use a quiet Friday. Look up, though, after laghu vajrasana, and there he is. “Four more,” he says, “Just entry and immediate exit.” Uh, okay. And after I finish the entry/exit exercise, he says, “Up.” Oh crap, a handstand? No idea how to coordinate body or breath coming out of laghu v and into a handstand. So do it totally gracelessly. Poor VBG. The things he sees.
Kapotasana is fine and then he says, “Up.” Oh, no effing way! But I do it. Slightly less gracelessly than the previous one, but I’m panting at the end of it. Criminy.