Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Sirsasana

So how was today's practice? Body felt softer, breath was worse than yesterday, focus was ok, Shavasana was great, the highlight of the practice no doubt.
Right now I'm working a little bit on Sirsasana, me and this asana is truly a never-ending story. First you have to know that I count myself to one of the most unathletic persons I know. It always takes ages til I learn something that implies non-trivial physical coordination. It took me ages to learn swimming, it took me ages to learn riding a bike and so on. So you can imagine how fast I learned the headstand and for me it's still a wonder that I'm able to do this.
But the finishing sequence not only contains headstand but a few additional variations, this is the sequence I learned:
10 breaths in normal headstand, 10 breaths with head lifted up, 10 breaths with legs parallel to the floor and then 10 times moving the legs from vertical down til almost touching the floor and up again.
My current practice-status is:
10 breaths in normal headstand, omitting the head-lifted-up-thing, that is not (yet) possible, 5 (fast) breaths with legs parallel to the ground and then moving legs up-down at most 3 times.
So there is still much work to do, isn't it? Also I'm not yet able to come up in headstand with straight legs, or let's say I'm not able to do it without wall, because indeed I'm able to come up but at the highest point I don't manage to bring the hip back to the middle fast enough and then I would topple to the other side if there wasn't my wall. Lacking physical coordination! But I'm sure I will learn this sooner or later. I'm already used to the fact that everything comes to me a little later.

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