Miscone or Misconc

Posted in ashtanga yoga on 06/12/2009 09:30 am by karen

Yeah, I scrawled some notes after practice. The heading is “Miscone” or Misconc.”

Okay, I guess that sums it up. :-)

Today’s practice was informed by my pre-practice reading of Grimmly’s blog. He talked about mula bandha, and I thought, “Hey, I need to actually pay attention to MB!” (This was mentioned yesterday in relation to LBH poses, too.)

So I paid attention. When I focus on one thing, of course, I usually lose another. Today it was the breath. I decided to take extra breaths and let that be okay. That way, I could really *feel* what I was doing, instead of keeping the metronome pacing of intermediate (or, as I like to practice it, the horrible gasping and breath-holding and fainty feeling).

At first, mula bandha just felt like a tangle of strong energy. But after a little while, it resolved into something more refined. I get images in my head of things I’m feeling, and what I saw was this:

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Well, son of a gun. So that’s what’s going on in the cave of the sacrum.

Focus on mula bandha was a great idea. I felt very strong and extraordinarily cheerful. Practice was through pincha mayurasana. Then assisted dropbacks and assisted tics.

What a great practice today! Everything felt nice and strong and bendy. I’m losing my fear of the LBH poses, in part because of all of the discussion with you guys. Thanks!

 

3 Comments

  1. Grimmly’s post gave me ‘Bandha Guilt.’ But the theme of my week seems to be breathing so I’m sticking with that for now. All of this makes me think I should actually *read* the Moola Bandha book that I bought last year when Bandha-mania last swept the Cybershala :-D

  2. I also bought it! There’s good stuff and esoterica in it; worth a read.

  3. “Focus on mula bandha was a great idea.”
    for some reason that really made me laugh!

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