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Posted in Uncategorized on 08/10/2010 11:03 pm by karen

Can I post an entry with a photo from iPad?


- Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone

 

6 Comments

  1. Works good. First day of moon cycle… maybe some dwipada blogging this phase?

  2. Ha! Perhaps. Won’t day after day of “not yet,” “not yet,” “not yet,” grow tiresome?

    In a nutshell: the left foot stays back, the balance is better, but as I duck forward for the right foot, the left springs out. I suspect this is exactly the same problem all dwi pada beginners face?

    Today I “woke up” in the second side of eka pada sirsasasa. Was present in a way I’ve never been present before — I feel some fear around these LBH poses, and it makes me kind of blurry and out of my body usually, even as — from the outside — I am doing the pose. It was cool to have everything snap into focus — felt like, “Hey, this isn’t bad at all!”

  3. Can you kind of use your arm to keep the first leg back there whilst putting the second leg behind? Does that makes sense?

    And was that posted from iPad? The tag says iPhone… (and thanks for testing!)

  4. Yeah, iPad. Weird, right, that it said iPhone? It’s since adjusted and now recognizes what it is.

    Hmmm. Okay, tomorrow I’ll see if i can use my arm to hold the left leg back. Do you mean my left shoulder to keep it back?

  5. Agreed with S.

    It can be hard to get the body to do two things at once. In a way, a lot of 1s teaches the hips to be skizoid – the left moves in a certain direction while the right moves in another. Somehow, maybe because 1s teaches the hips to be skizoid while they are still grounded, it seems that may ashtangis really learn asymmetricality of the hips. So when you’re in eka pada sirsasana, the above the head hip totally knows to release and reach in a different way from its partner, the grounding hip.

    But it seems like this is way harder for the shoulders to learn. Sometimes, just my mastering hip skitzophrenia, we can get all the way through the marichyasanas without learning that in all those postures what’s most efficient is to teach the shoulders to do exactly opposite things, rather than imitating each other. Maybe check out doing two things at once with the shoulders in those places?

    Then maybe asking the left foot to do all the work it needs to stay in place in dwi pada (work it can do when in the previous posture) will be sustainable even as you add a whole different thing (reaching back for the right). Ida is really focused on staying in eka, pingala is rotating back for a second and doing some crazy yoga gymnastics.

    Lots of damn words here, and way more analysis than I wanted to include, but I thought it might be fun to work it as an attention-trick? Going from laser-mode not all the way out to lantern-mode, but just to two lasers. I think there’s something here about when the two lasers cross, they create tension that holds them in stillness, but that would be going maybe too deep in to Luke-Darth exegesis… :-)

  6. Oh, great insight! I know I always use my shoulders symmetrically. This is the really fun part of practice for me: recognizing an inflexibility I didn’t even know I had (the limited way I use my shoulders) & then playing with it. Thanks for this. Can’t wait to try it tomorrow morning!

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