Perhaps I am getting a bit post happy, but it’s my birthday and I want to, so nerrrr.
I was going to go to a class this evening, but then decided to practice on my own at home. Sometimes you are your own best teacher anyway, why be limited by how someone else wants you to do something? So, I have just enjoyed a couple of hours of slow indulgent practice, holding each pose for longer than I needed and contemplating every muscle stretch and twinge. Wonderful. What better way to spend your birthday evening – and I really mean that…. does that make me a totally addicted yogi?
I also enjoyed that bit of extra flexibility that comes with practicing in the evening. Head to shin in the first SNA, wrist binds in all of the Marichis. I did miss having someone squish me into supta K, but even there I managed to get my fingers touching – which is great 😀
As photographs seem to be a current theme, I decided to take a picture of my backbend. I feel like my tightness is in the shoulders, but like YC, the photographic evidence looks more like hip flexors. I wonder how upper and lower body proportions effect that? The backbend has definitely improved since June though, or perhaps it was just a bendy day?
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November 2, 2007 at 4:50 am
Damn, you’ve got LONG legs!!!
November 2, 2007 at 6:36 pm
I didn’t catch any self-congratualtion in this post. Are you not pleased? The progress looks obvious to me!
November 3, 2007 at 8:46 pm
Happy Birthday.
I always practice on my birthday (Munich this year), just so I can compare where the postures have gone from a year before. I assume someone took the picture for you, I couldnt get into back bend in the 10 self timer seconds, am majorly impressed if you did!
November 3, 2007 at 11:53 pm
I will be pleased when I can back bend in the mornings too 😉
It was self timer, 12 seconds though, not 10.
November 4, 2007 at 10:09 am
12 seconds, am still very impressed. It takes me half a minute to set my feet up, go through Dena’s instructions in my head before attempting to push up.
March 29, 2008 at 8:37 pm
NICE!!!!! Does having long legs make backbending easier or harder? Not backbending, strictly speaking, but the whole complexity of UD and Kapo…
March 30, 2008 at 10:25 am
I don’t feel like it helps to have long legs. I consider my backbend to be pretty rubbish. It is uncomfortable and at the moment, that picture feels like my maximum. I also find it really hard to stand from a backbend, which I think is because I can’t really get my weight over my feet, or anywhere near really!