mayurasana, gomukasana & structure of my practice
today the room was less crowded and Teacher was able to spend more time with everyone. it's amazing what you learn. in the standing sequence lunge type poses, the back leg needs to be engaged, planted, lifting. all that.mayurasana - wow, i was transitioning wrongly into and out of it. when you conclude the downward dog of the previous pose, you arrive to standing, hand on the side, then you place them on the floor, palms facing backwards. she explained the breathing that accompanies the movement, but i already forgot. the part that is challenging is that when you're coming back up, you do a downward dog with the arms still bent with the palms facing backwards, elbows together and you somehow find space in between the arms to put your head down gazing towards the navel; then you jump to standing. i'll have to check a Swenson video for reference.
in gomukasana, it's important once you're perched, set up and hand-bound, to lift the chest up, and lift the elbows up and back. doing that felt right, like the pictures by advanced yogis. Teacher also gave me a tip for setting up for parighasana, by using the hand that is not lifting/arching to pull your upper body down and then assist with the twisting of the torso, as the other arm lifts and arches towards the feet to grab the toes. then the first arm can reach for the foot afterwards.
Teacher was curious as to how i'm structuring my practice and whether someone had given this to me. my practice is short and i've described it here indirectly a few weeks back. on Sundays it's half Primary, half Second. during the week i do warm ups, then the first five of standing sequence, followed by half of intermediate poses, then closing sequence. this week the "sandwich" was (1) pasasana to ardha matsyendrasana, (2) bakasana to tittibasana C, (3) tittibasana C to the seven head stands. sometimes the sandwich is the first four or five of Third Series. Teacher mentioned that these days in Mysore, people doing Third Series start after the full standing poses sequence. so i might try that, rather than starting right after half of the standing sequence. so far my practice if going well this week and i'm managing to stay on my proper diet and go on five hours of sleep rather than seven hours of sleep.
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