Practice notes..

I've been using a block, and socks to slide myself back from dandasana to plank..and back again. I figure its a pretty good exercise, since I can't do a proper jumpback anymore. I just do it about 5 times before practice..just to get warmed up. I'm sure everyone's noticed my obsession with jumpbacks lately..well its true, I'm trying very hard to do whatever I did a few weeks back to jumpback. And since I can't do it, I'm hell bent on trying to get it again.

I figure that at the moment, except for my lack of core strength/bandhas or whatever, everything else is going pretty well. My flexibility is great, backbends are good, leg behind head is going fine..I just need that little bit more of strength to even things out.

I feel it'll be some work for me, since strength is really hard for me to build. J says everything tends to get into my flexibility, and I end up not needing to use strength whenever I can get away with it.

Sliding is getting pretty easy to do nowadays..now if those feet will just leave the floor, I'd be flying back;P Also since I can't lift my legs off my legs in bakasana, I've also done some extra curricular work by adding a tripod headstand into my practice on top of shirshana A. I just tip over on my head and rest the legs on my arms, then lift them up and down from there. Sometimes I lift from there into bakasana. Its a fun little sequence to try anyhow..and I've even done some eka pada bakasana thingy from there. I think it might help my bandha control...but I'll have to watch and see.


Well, what else have I been trying..lets see. I've been watching this on youtube..

Its fascinating me..might try some of it...