Spaced out much?
Posted in ashtanga yoga on 06/25/2008 10:59 am by karenThought: “Gee, marichyasana B feels really weird and tight today.”
Realized: “I’m doing marichyasana D.”
Okay.
Today was one of those really distracted practices. At first I was frustrated because I couldn’t pratyahar (verb form of pratyahara — kidding). Anyhow, I just carried on, distractability and all, and wouldn’t you know? It turned into a pretty interesting practice.
Mostly around the end o’primary roll-up poses: upavistha konasana, supta konasana, ubhaya padangusthasana, urdhva muka paschimottanasana. Usually I blow through those poses pretty exuberantly — rolling, balancing, woohoo!
Today, though, for some reason I realized that there’s more interesting balance to be had if I push forward of the sit bones. I imagined a triangle formed of the sit bones and mula bandha, and then tipped like a gyroscope more toward the mula bandha “point” of the triangle. And the little 3D image in my mind tipped — a sheer triangular plane, a kind of level.
A very cool balance point. Found purely by dint of what could easily have seemed like a less than stellar practice.