Was really tired out today. Bandhas disappearing everywhere..even my flexibility was a little suspect...actually found it hard to bind Supta K again! Thats not happened for a few weeks already!
Its THAT time of the month for me...nevertheless, I went ahead for class..and the result is a noticeably weaker practice...it REALLY does make a difference. I never really realised that all this while, I guess mainly because I didn't practice so consistently last time..but now, I can really tell that my strength is much weaker while menstruating. Odd though that I was also stiffer than usual though.
I got the 2 salabhasanas today..yippeee!! despite bombing out all the vinyasas. BUT I did jump back from bakasana on the way out of bhuja..;) So maybe D was a little impressed that I made some progress and decided to give me a new pose...or perhaps because the class was so empty today..that he didn't have a lot to do..and decided to give me a new pose.
Anyhow..I've been doing salabhasana for ages..since I started yoga..so this definitely wasn't difficult. Keeping the feet together is not that fun though..my hamstrings had to work quite hard.
Skipped handstanding though cos I was really tired out by then. I also got to talk to D about the state of my (non-existent) bandhas. He said to do lots of sit ups and concentrate on the navasana lifts. All my teachers are agreement with one thing...that I have weak abs...;( And even though to me, I've made some noticeable improvements compared to 1 year ago..its really still sucky at best. D also demonstrated jumping back for me, cos I told him I recently was taught to wriggle my butt back to jump back..and I asked him if that was the only way to practice jumping back..and he did the perfect jumpback for me to see..of course..but I couldnt do it at all. No help there...seems the only way to do it..is to ACTUALLY try to do it badly until it gets good..
I'm quite excited...I wonder how long its gonna take me to get to kapotasana?? I've always wanted to do it officially...but it seems to be taking forever to get a new pose..Anyhow..J told me while I was at his shala that I will get seriously stuck after the first six poses of intermediate because of my lack of bandhas...I don't know why he said that..maybe to make sure I work on bandha building in the meantime..I do know for sure bakasana is probably really unmanageable for me...but thats really too far off to think about now..
Oh..I've been walking back and forth through my arms yesterday to kinda do my vinyasas cos I was too lazy to do the lift up...it actually takes effort to walk my feet back and walk it back forward between the arms again...I had to really shorten my torso to get through...I reckon I should do that as part of my vinyasas sometimes because I think its better at building bandhas than my straight leg version. And obviously since I can't jump back anyway..this is a good "cheating" alternative..;)
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