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So backbends workshop this morning...well..it was ok. I kinda know most of the stuff about backbends that our trainer talked about..mostly about internal rotation of the legs, using bandhas to support the backbends, softening the ribs in so as not to arch too much (well..this one I learnt from the same trainer in her previous workshop). What was interesting was that in UD, we were told to do it with arms the same way we do downward dog. I've never really done it the way that I was asked to do anyway, with the elbow eyes pointing down to the floor in downward dog. I've always kinda ignored it and down it the way I like which is to have my elbow eyes pointing a little bit more the the side than downwards. Anyhow, apparently this was not a good way to do it, and we were to do the same in UD. The elbow eyes pointing straight to the front. I don't find it very comfortable to be honest, and it doesn't seem to give my shoulders much of a stretch...I've really got to research this and see if thats the way people do UD.. None of my mysore teachers have ever corrected my arm positions for UD...
Other than that, not that much else was really a revelation. We got to practice some backbends..of note padangusta dhanurasana, which was fun to do..and loosened up my back so much that when I taught my class at the gym this evening, my back felt really loose and bendy.
Overall, it was good to have a review of all the concepts involved in backbends...it was only a 3 hour workshop, so we didn't get to cover much about inversions, except handstands. But most of the handstand concepts I had already learnt from my other teachers, so it wasn't very new to me.
Monday, July 9, 2007
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