Archive for January 29th, 2008

Engaging my husband in dinner conversation

Posted in ashtanga yoga on 01/29/2008 08:15 pm by karen

“What’s your favorite pose?”
“I hate them all.”

 

Counted practice. Not so much.

Posted in ashtanga yoga on 01/29/2008 10:32 am by karen

This morning I decided to use Sharath’s CD to count practice for The Cop and myself. Figured it’d be good to have him hear the names of poses and adjust to the metronome of a counted practice. Plus he could hear all of the “inhale” and “exhale” commands. I was concerned it might be too fast, but figured we’d see.

So Sharath starts in and say, “Hands up” on ekam. The Cop looks at me. “Did he say hands up?”

Oh, yes, I forgot about that.

The Cop is highly sensitive to commands that instruct what someone should do with their hands. And he does NOT like being the person on the receiving end of those commands.

Experiment results: murderous rage. Seriously, The Cop is very NOT ready for led practice. For one thing, he thought that we were going slower than we usually (silently) do. I think the real issue was just having things be different than usual.

Tomorrow, back to silent follow-along practice.

We’ll try the led experiment again sometime in the future… You know, once the yoga starts to work.