Comments on: Cows, Itchiness, Karma-Crim-Krama

By: o0v0o

o0v0o — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 03:37:01 +0000

Oh for heaven’s sake.

I’m glad his coat is getting better, poor little guy.

By: Tyler's human grandma

Tyler's human grandma — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 00:21:40 +0000

gosh dangit….still having skin issues???? I will rack my brain and see if there is anything else I can think of.
Glad the oatmeal bath is offering some improvement.

He is so cute and I just love your stories:)

Did he start his puppy classes? I thought you mentioned you had enrolled him(??)

Say hi to The Cop

By: donutszenmom

donutszenmom — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 20:10:22 +0000

I can see the kapo aspect in the sequence, for sure. All those ustrasanas with different arm articulations — heck, the arms in the salabhasanas and lunges and even the gomukhasana, for that matter. Lots to learn about opening (and articulating) the shoulders in there. And then all the lotused backbends for learning about the front of the hips. Those seem kapo-related to me.

Or maybe I’m just projecting.

Still, my thought today is that it seems like a good sequence to play in tandem with the first third of second (fun to write that!).

By: patrick

patrick — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 19:50:22 +0000

To be honest, I think you’d find that some of the Intermediate backbends would retreat and others would advance. I use Simha Krama as a prep for dropping back, and it’s brilliant. It is also way, WAY cranking up the ease and joy of my Padmasana. Matthew told me that someone said to him that SK is “the Kapotasana sequence” but I have yet to notice a drastic change in my Kapo. You’ll notice, in the hip opening sequence, that it’s probably also good for building foot-behind-head.

And YES, to the way that Ashtanga builds a big Urdhva Dhanurasana; we TOTALLY forget this when we’re practicing solo or only with other Ashtangis.

Dog stories: I’ve seen flea soaks, big ole ticks removed, matted puppies de-matted, backyard dog fights hosed down, skunked dogs bathed in V8, and a thousand cases of dogs and emergency runs to vets, dogs carried bodily to ponds while heat stroking out, all sorts of things.

By: donutszenmom

donutszenmom — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 18:44:08 +0000

Funny you commented as I was busy writing a new post about Simha Krama. Yeah, I seem to be under the spell of the Crim Guru! Gosh, what a terrific series SK is! I’m impressed. What do you think would happen if someone (not me, a friend of mine! ) did it every day?

I wish he’d make an audio version. It was so much easier doing Chandra Krama when he walked us through it verbally. It’s hard to look at pictures and breathe at the same time. Gee, I sound like Jessica Simpson…

LOL! You’ll have to share some of your dog stories. The cybershala seems to be on an animal story jag these days.

By: patrick

patrick — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 18:00:01 +0000

Haha, are you going “Vinyasa Krama” like Cody asked?

As you probably know by now, I have great, great love for the Simha Krama.

It sounds funny to read, “soaking the dog in oatmeal,” but I hear you there, my father’s biz while I was a kid was grooming dogs. I’ve seen all kinds of stuff.

By: donutszenmom

donutszenmom — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 17:28:54 +0000

We’ve definitely ruled out grains — at this point he is on a grain-free diet. I keep wondering about all of the other stuff he eats, though — he eats any fruit or vegetable he can get ahold of, peanut butter, eggs, yogurt…

The oatmeal bath really seems to have done the trick, at least in the past 12 hours… I’m going to keep soaking him in oatmeal and see if that’ll solve for the problem.

His dad had grass allergies when he was a puppy, but grew out of them. I’m hoping that’s what’s going on here.

By: jennasuz

jennasuz — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 15:27:14 +0000

Have you ruled out Tyler’s diet as being a source of the itchiness? My dog was really itchy, and it turned out she had an allergic reaction to wheat. Once we switched her to Lamb and Rice, her coat vastly improved… but the journey to find out what exactly she was allergic to was not a fun one.