Amazing stuff..

I was across the causeway again due to work commitments...and of course I went to visit my favourite teacher there..(actually my one and only teacher there.;p)

I had the most amazing jumpthrough EVER. ONCE only..but unforgettable..For some unknown reason, I was getting some pretty good hang time in my jumpthroughs recently since J mentioned to me to pay attention to where my hips are in space before landing..I've also had to jumpthrough cross-leg instead of straight because J said I was being lazy and taking the easy way out by doing them with straight legs...I manage to get through sometimes..and other times crash between my hands.Anyway since I was paying much more attention to getting high enough and then swinging through..on Wednesday morning while at the shala, I got to a point where I felt pretty good balance..but instead of gong down, I decided to stay up longer..so I contracted my abs, pushed into the floor..and I swear I just floated up in slow motion into a tucked handstand. Its not that I've never done a tuck handstand but the speed was so incredibly slow going up, it felt like floating in space....I managed to swing through after that pretty ok..but it was that hang time that was just SOOO amazing.. now if I can only do that again..sigh.

J decided to ask me to try getting into supta k sitting up. After my usual supta k, he got me to put my left leg behind the back. Then after a few breaths he got me to change to the rght sde. That wasn't a big problem since I've kinda been doing ekapada with D already anyway. Then he asked me to put both behind my back..and I got the left side behind..and then tried bringng the right back..and rolled over like a dead bug...hahahha. After that he decided to help me by standing behind to give me some support. I can only get the left side secure..once I try to bring the right side up, I get kinda stuck, and he had to help me out to get it back. Anyhow J said I should try this way going forward..after supta k on a normal day, do eka pada..then dwipada. He said I am open enough to do it..just need to keep the abs in to make sure I don't topple..I've not managed to get into it on my own at all so far.

I've been pretty inspired lately about my practice..after the JC workshop and now J's mysore classes..I've had quite a bit of overload of info and also lots of fresh inspiration to work on my practice...;)