Guest guest Posted October 31, 2000 Report Share Posted October 31, 2000 Oh boy, Lu, will you get flamed by the Astanga Polizei for this one! I'm not a vehement anti-Beryl ranter, as you know, but given the choice between doing what she says and doing what Sharath says - obviously do what Sharath says. No contest.<br><br>People say fingers spread is wrong because it dissipates (verschwendet, says my English-German dictionary but I'm not sure if that's quite right)energy, whereas fingers & thumb together keeps the energy flow together and directed. I don't understand such things myself, but I listen to what my teachers say just in case they do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 31, 2000 Report Share Posted October 31, 2000 Why would you do what anyone says? Really?? Who's practice is it? Who's experiment is it really? Who really knows the right answer? Like the Buddha said - put everything to test. Fundamentalist ashtangies should burn their rigid minds and their neurotic minds...IL99 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 31, 2000 Report Share Posted October 31, 2000 Fingers together is correct. Fingers spread is wrong and is not the pose. Dissipation of energy is the explanation I have been given.<br>Yours,<br>Trinka Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 4, 2000 Report Share Posted November 4, 2000 i use my hands and feet to create the dynamic of the bandhas...this gives a unifying energetic and structural unity to the poses (for me)....and my students seem to agree.....but that might be the power of suggestion....<br><br>theoretically it works on the bases of the fingers and the balls of the feet being the thoracic reflex and therefore should be broad and full to support the fullness and breadth of the chest....if i close my fingers this broadening diminishes....also if i open them too wide.,.,.<br><br>in practice using the hands like so focusses my awareness while extending it core to periphery, and stabilises my energy centering me...this is especially noticable when i become unstable, say when coming out of parivritatrikonasana...if i reengage my hands i restabilise...<br><br>but maybe the same would work for those who like to use their hands an other way....<br><br>the correct method is not so because it is endorsed by any one of us, regardless of our credentials....rather the correct method is that which allows us, as individuals in our own practice, to move through the limbs of yoga practice from dualistic awareness to nirbijasamadhi....<br><br>bon voyage Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 4, 2000 Report Share Posted November 4, 2000 The extension of energy through the _metacarpals_ (just as in the swanasanas) in all the hands-over-head postures is what I've been focussing on....ever since that guy (whose name always escapes me) from London who heads the Tripsicore yoga dance troupe turned me onto to it.<br><br>The hand activity extends from the core of the hand, rather than the extremities. Seems to make a difference for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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