Guest guest Posted June 13, 2001 Report Share Posted June 13, 2001 Ällen (!)<br><br>I'm green with envy reading in message 8300 that you are now almost able to do the jump back without your feet touching the floor. I myself am still far away from that.<br><br>I started doing the jump backs in the modified fashion as suggested in David Swenson's "Practice Manual", using his options "#2: take-it-up" & "#3: jumping". Sitting on crossed legs, placing your hands in front of you and jumping back is very easy indeed, though; it seemed to me after some time that doing the jump backs this way I would never learn to master them properly. So now I still "take-it-up" first, lifting myself cross-legged through pressing my hands on the floor, then trying to *swing* back into chatvari , never mind if my feet touch the floor (which they never fail to do), so that the operation looks more like a "walk back" rather than a jump back.<br><br>I think that's the risk of modifying the posture David-Swenson style: that you may be tempted to cheat your way through the series, simplifying every posture which doesn't suit you, either because you deem it too difficult to do or just because you feel uncomfortable in it.<br><br>I am still trying to figure out how it looks like to drop into astavakrasana from handstand. I know the posture only from iyengar yoga - never attempted it myself though - and certainly it is one of the toughest as well as most advanced balancing postures you can get, even if you do it the Iyengarite way, starting from tadasana/samasthitih, without any handstand tricks.<br><br>Guess what, yesterday I saw Astanga on the BR channel (I can get it through cable tv here)! Actually, it was about yoga in general, most of it rather dull, lots of soft-yoga bullshit. But right at the start of it all they showed an astanga class in action, at a large and light studio whith a wooden floor and mirrored wall. I'm quite sure it was in Munich. I kept watching out for a sweating blond Englishman in the background, but I couldn't discover you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 13, 2001 Report Share Posted June 13, 2001 actually astavakrasana, in its easier entry from the floor as opposed to from headstand, is one of the easiER arm balances and you could probably do it this second if someone guided you. <br>Another easier way for those without the brute strength could be to lean the side ribs on one elbow (that would be the opposite side of where the legs are pointing)....and eventually work to lifting if you're a guy, a midget stickinsect girl, or strong. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 13, 2001 Report Share Posted June 13, 2001 Yea, it's the easiest of the arm balances in that third series sequence: definitely worth a try. Have fun, just don't tell ESPW.<br><br>Homer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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