Despite superstitions: All net!
Posted in ashtanga yoga on 12/12/2009 07:46 pm by karenToday I went to a workshop The Poetess put on. Lots of psoas stretching and back opening. I always get a little nervous about doing new sequences — my brain starts screaming “this isn’t the right order!” which is kind of funny.
Still, it was nice to spend time with The Poetess. Anyhow, at the end of the practice, we did kapotasana. Whoa! Superstition alert! Kapotasana? Without salabhasana followed by bhekasana followed by dhanurasana followed by parsva dhanurasana followed by ustrasana followed by laghu vajrasana? Huh??! I immediately lowered my expectations and figured I wouldn’t be able to get to my toes, under these circumstances.
I went back, walked my hands in, stretched up, walked my hands in some more, thought about how it was okay not to get my toes under these unusual circumstances, and… then I got my toes.
