3 August 2008 - Led Primary

I went to a new place today. Pretty inspiring. People were obviously seasoned practitioners and I saw some amazingly floaty practices..

My own practice has been a little bit stagnant lately. I'm still at ekapada. My usual mysore class is not on the menu, I suspect for a while cos of some troubles happening at the studio I usually go to. I don't want to go into that issue, as I think its got to do with all the ugly side of business...even if its a yoga business..

I don't think I've made much progress lately, but did manage to tweak the left leg in eka pada shirshasana, cos I tried to get into it without enough warm up. Its alrite now. I have managed lately to lift my hips pretty darn high in titthibasana, and think I owe it to J using his finger to prod my low belly and encouraging me to lift from there. I can't remember when I went to him, think it was the beginning of last month. From there, I managed a rather nice fold back into an arm balance for a second and then go back to chatturanga. Since that time, I've been pretty able to lift the hips, but the folding back part still is a hit and miss.

Jump throughs were getting pretty nice and floaty lately with crossed legs except that I jumped so high that I almost fell over..and since then my body has been holding back and stopping me midpoint and I end up lading not that gracefully. It seems to me relaxation is very key to nice vinyasas.

Jump backs are a still a hit and miss. When I don't think about it, I usually do much better. Occasionally the bandhas kick in own their own and I get a big float back, other times I still end up touching the floor and having to do a major crunch to go back. Nevertheless, they seem to be getting much better. J is right...the less I think, the better the practice..