2 June 2007

I'm listening to Tim Miller's introduction to the Yoga Sutras right now...on iHunaman as I type this. I definitely need some brush up on the Yoga Sutras...obviously whatever I learnt in TTC on the sutras have gotten lost somewhere in the grey matter...

Anyhow practice today..was alright. Nothing too interesting happened..except I managed to do eka pada shirshasana today. Am pretty sure it looked quite bad, but I had no mirror to look at, so I can only guess. But I was thrilled that I could do it relatively painlessly, even though I was kinda hunched up like the hunchback of notre dame..I tried supta K first, but since I couldn't get the legs together, I decided to try to put one behind my head first and see if I can get the other.. Obviously Dwi Pada was out of the question, but I do think that if I work on this progressively, I might be able to pull it deeper soon. Then hopefully I can get to working both legs behind my head.

The thing with me is that, my torso is long, and my legs are pretty short. I can bind my hands quite easily, because I am in quite deep in kurmasana, but when I try to cross the legs, even if the legs are snugly over the shoulders and there is no pain anywhere whatsoever, my head gets in the way of me binding my legs. It's very difficult for me to bind in front of my head and wiggle myself under. I need to pull the leg up behind my head instead.

Nothing much else happened in practice today. But I just had to post this eka pada shirshasana thing. I believe this is my key to supta K!!