Supta kurmasana clavicle returns!
Posted in ashtanga yoga on 06/26/2009 05:21 pm by karenGah! The pain of learning supta kurmasana is back! You know, that horrifying clavicle pain? Yup.
I know where this is from: dwi pada sirsasana. And yoga nidrasana. But especially dwi pada. I totally felt it today when I had my left leg back and then pulled my right leg up — whatever inward rotation I’m doing to tuck my right arm through and shove my shoulder under the leg is OWIE!
MM pointed out that I have to push my chest forward and extend through the lower back. Yeah. You know, generally I’m more likely to kinda internally rotate inward and get more concave through the front body. Especially when I’m stressed.
So this is turning into a psychological event: have to keep my spirits up during practice, or else I retreat to the inward-folding.
No matter what, though, post-practice I’m a cheerful little creature.
Slow and steady. Slow and steady…
06/26/2009 at 10:59 pm
“a cheerul little creature”
06/27/2009 at 8:26 am
Isn’t she though? I love the way it’s seeping in to your prose as well.
(A couple of people have asked why I’m smiling so broadly at the computer screen…)
06/27/2009 at 9:04 pm
aw… Karen, you’re not alone in the struggles of leg behind the head! Mike likes to imitate the funny little head bob our neighbor’s cat, Mr. Bubby, does when he peeks in the door. Yesterday he started to do it and stopped short saying, “ow! Dwi Pada is making my Bubby impression hurt to do!” We busted out laughing as he rubbed the back of his neck.
I have to concentrate on not doing the inward fold too!!
06/28/2009 at 2:35 am
hi Karen
i saw a statue of Guanyin today at a shop with feet all bound up and all kinds of Lotus leaves behind her body that one could have imagined where feet behind the head – and thought that’s how Karen should look in DwiPada.
i think Tova’s advice to Alfia about not thinking of getting the right foot behind the left foot but thinking of getting the right knee behind the right shoulder is a good idea. i see that you have this in mind, since you’re thinking of getting the shoulder in front of the leg. once you’re bound up then the work is to lift the chest. that would diminish the concavity.
hugs
Arturo