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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.

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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.

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