Fell out of scorpion..

I fell out of vrischikasana today in class. It was pretty terrifying. I thought I was going to break my back...but fortunately I'm fine now with no apparent damage done. I was at D's class today, its a kinda advanced flow class, but not that flowey cos mostly everyone had to migrate to the walls for most of the inversions.

So like the last time, we did all the usual suspects for inversions...handstands, forearm balance, headstands and also D's favourite stuff ..arm balances like koundinyasana and bakasana etc. I've found out that I can only balance one side in koundinyasana. I think my obliques are stronger on the right, and it was pretty easy to twist that way but on the left, I could hardly lift my feet off the mat, let alone scissors them!

Other than that D introduced scorpion today..and my back was pretty bendy from doing UD and kapotasana mid way through class so it was WAY too easy to bend my back and have my legs collapse all the way to the floor from pincha. Unfornately it was also so WAY bendy I had no strength in the core to get them up from the floor. So D came over to try to lift my hips back up...and as things will have it, I fell over on my side in the same deep backbend..and for a second there thought I'd done it and broken my back...but well..nothing seems to be wrong..I don't even feel a twinge now in the back...luckily. D told me after that to just stay with the feet on the wall...I think I must have scared him too;P He said my abs were too soft ..(ie weak I think..but he was too polite to use that word..)

Other than that kapotasana today..hmmm..as usual I can get my head all the way between my feet, but I couldn't get my hands back to the heels..only mid foot. My shoulder is really really stiff...I can't seem to eek out any bend from them and have to rely on the hips extension and bendy lower back to get into all these backbends...I reckon its really a waste because my upper spine is actually pretty bendy as well..but because my shoulder can't rotate around, I can't really use that bend much at all...when I got home just now, I went straight for my block and did some shoulder stretches with my elbows on the chair and head hanging down like this one. It felt like my deltoids and triceps were going to snap.

Sigh...all things considered..I wish I could get my abs stronger quicker...it always seems to be the thing that gets me into trouble in poses....