Comments on: Ode to the bat cave, Svadhyaya, Navasana http://donutszenmom.com/2007/12/08/ode-to-the-bat-cave-svadhyaya-navasana/ ashtanga yoga. zen. life. words. Tue, 28 Jun 2011 19:04:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: donutszenmom http://donutszenmom.com/2007/12/08/ode-to-the-bat-cave-svadhyaya-navasana/comment-page-1/#comment-1141 donutszenmom Sun, 09 Dec 2007 00:18:30 +0000 http://donutszenmom.wordpress.com/2007/12/08/ode-to-the-bat-cave-svadhyaya-navasana/#comment-1141 The first chapter of Dogen's (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogen) Shobogenzo(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shobogenzo), or "Treasury of the True Dharma Eye," is called "Genjo Koan." Here's a nice translation of Genjo Koan: http://genjokoan.com/ Dogen is an amazing writer. I love thinking about the fact that this fellow was thinking these thoughts in 1230... What a trip. The first chapter of Dogen’s (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogen) Shobogenzo(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shobogenzo), or “Treasury of the True Dharma Eye,” is called “Genjo Koan.”

Here’s a nice translation of Genjo Koan: http://genjokoan.com/

Dogen is an amazing writer. I love thinking about the fact that this fellow was thinking these thoughts in 1230… What a trip.

]]> By: (0v0) http://donutszenmom.com/2007/12/08/ode-to-the-bat-cave-svadhyaya-navasana/comment-page-1/#comment-1140 (0v0) Sat, 08 Dec 2007 23:24:27 +0000 http://donutszenmom.wordpress.com/2007/12/08/ode-to-the-bat-cave-svadhyaya-navasana/#comment-1140 Understand about the cementing of the psoas there. What about trying to decementify the psoas in the final part of utthitha hasta--bringing the work really into the core--and then repeating the dynamic in the boat? Who is this amazing Genjōkōan person? This quotation is doing me in. I love it. Understand about the cementing of the psoas there. What about trying to decementify the psoas in the final part of utthitha hasta–bringing the work really into the core–and then repeating the dynamic in the boat?

Who is this amazing Genjōkōan person? This quotation is doing me in. I love it.

]]> By: donutszenmom http://donutszenmom.com/2007/12/08/ode-to-the-bat-cave-svadhyaya-navasana/comment-page-1/#comment-1139 donutszenmom Sat, 08 Dec 2007 17:45:23 +0000 http://donutszenmom.wordpress.com/2007/12/08/ode-to-the-bat-cave-svadhyaya-navasana/#comment-1139 I'm not really sure what the aversion is. I just never feel any enjoyment in the pose: it's just all about hanging out and kind of waiting for it to be over. At best, I get through it and move on -- at worst, it makes my psoas feel like it's turning into cement. I guess I just can't seem to find any lightness. It's just a fight against gravity. All of the other poses in primary have little places where you can find some pleasure -- as if there's a little key movement or awareness that turns the pose on and brings it alive. Navasana, at least at this point, just seems like drudgery. That said, a couple of years ago, I hated the prasaritas -- and now I just love them. I’m not really sure what the aversion is. I just never feel any enjoyment in the pose: it’s just all about hanging out and kind of waiting for it to be over. At best, I get through it and move on — at worst, it makes my psoas feel like it’s turning into cement. I guess I just can’t seem to find any lightness. It’s just a fight against gravity. All of the other poses in primary have little places where you can find some pleasure — as if there’s a little key movement or awareness that turns the pose on and brings it alive. Navasana, at least at this point, just seems like drudgery.

That said, a couple of years ago, I hated the prasaritas — and now I just love them.

]]> By: crankyhousefrau http://donutszenmom.com/2007/12/08/ode-to-the-bat-cave-svadhyaya-navasana/comment-page-1/#comment-1138 crankyhousefrau Sat, 08 Dec 2007 17:15:34 +0000 http://donutszenmom.wordpress.com/2007/12/08/ode-to-the-bat-cave-svadhyaya-navasana/#comment-1138 i can't wait to see your ink! what do you feel averse to about navasana? when i first started my practice and went to led classes i had a horrible aversion to upavishta konasana. i wish i had written about it in a journal or something because now i love the pose and can't even remember why i hated it so much. i can’t wait to see your ink!
what do you feel averse to about navasana? when i first started my practice and went to led classes i had a horrible aversion to upavishta konasana. i wish i had written about it in a journal or something because now i love the pose and can’t even remember why i hated it so much.

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