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| Whats yout favourite / least favourite pose and why?
Favourite:- Shoulderstand cycle including plough and wheel- love thestrength and fluidity involved in the postures.
Least:- Fish- really ackward on the neck until I learnt a modification.
Balances I find a little challenging, but that doesn't stop me from re-attempting them again. |
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| My favorite is probably the plough. The plough just feels great on my shoulders! I've actually been doing this one since childhood... (I have no idea where I learned it). I just found out it is a yoga asana this year. :-) Imagine that!
My least favorite has to be Sun Salutations! I get too dizzy up and down and up and down. :-P I either want to be up or down and stay there for a while. (Has something to do with my low blood pressure I'm sure.)
Yogi-boy - I'm having trouble with the Fish pose as well. Can you attempt explain your modification? Maybe I'm havig the same problem.
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| Favs:
- fish! Yes 
- SS
- tree (left leg better than right leg)
- all kinds of forward bends
- the boat
- triangle(s)
- warrior(s)
- headstand
- DD
- updog / cobra
- catstretch
- dancer
- lotus (only short though)
- locust
- horizon
- parsvottasana (I can't do it well but like it nonetheless)
- prasarita padottasana
- baddha konasana
- malasana
- paschimottasana
- supta virasana
- plough
The least favs:
- ALL back bends!!!
- shoulderstand (strange, since I just love the plough and headstand)
- eagle
- the maricy(s)
- uphavista konasana
- setu bandha sarvangasana (the dreaded bridge)
- child's pose (sad but true)
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| Great Thread! What fun!!!!!!! Can we put another category in? Postures that we LOVE but are not very good at...
FAVS: triangle, plough, half moom, warrior 2, camel, and pigeon
GRUNTS:
least favorite of all time is standing head to knee (my version should be called the albatross)
revolved triangle
and come on let's face it...chair pose (fierce pose)
POSES I LOVE BUT NEED MUCH WORK
handstand
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| favs : any forward bends, supta virasana ( my fav )
least favs : any backbends, also parsvakonasana ( don't know why but I have never liked this pose ).
Wish list of poses that I wish I can do but can't : handstand, mayurasana, anything involving trying to put foot behind head.
Edited by bomberpig 2005-02-11 5:47 PM
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Location: New Jersey | My favorite postures are:
Trikonasana
Reverse Trikonasana
any forward bends
Twisting postures
Tree Pose
Least favorite:
Back Bends
Chair Pose
Fish (me too!)
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| Favorite:
Any backbends & chataranga followed by cobra
Hated:
Savasana without a doubt. |
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Location: A Blue State | Oooo, fun. Let's see, I had a rotten day, so I'll start with what I hate:
Yuck Poses: All standing poses other than Bow Pulling, Parivrtta Trikonasana,
Parivrtta Parvokasana, and Virabhadrasana II.
Yum Poses: Handstand, Viparita Salabasana, Ardha Matsyendrasana III,
Eka Pada Rajakapotasana I and IV, Padangusta Dhanurasana and Gherundasana I,
Eka Pada Khoundinyasana II, Urdhva Kukkutasana, Durvasasana, ...most of my practice,
for that matter....god, yoga is fun!
Current Passion Poses: Buddhasana and Vrshchkasana II.
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| I love sun salution, all the balance pose but warrior 3
I dread warrior3 or any poses I feel "weak in" I am trying to really attack thoughs poses so I will not want to avoid them. My r hip is way off from my L hip so I am really trying to get them more in ballance |
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| least faves-
(mostly poses that require a combo of hamstring+ hip flexibility)
all prasarita padottanasana's
uttithita hasta padangusthasana
upavista konasana
navasana
faves
all virabhadrasana's
marichyasana A& C
all twists/binds for that matter
camel
urdva dhanurasana
pigeon & king pigeon
utthita/parivrta trikonasana
baddha konasana
love but still struggling with:
inversions
hand balancing poses |
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| i had problems with fish too!
i was first taught fish by putting your hands in place upder your bum/low back, arching the spine and then lettting my head fall back. this immediately pushed by shoulders up next to my ears, crunched my neck and made it very uncomfortable. i've since learned that in order to free up the neck, you've got to pull shoulders down and pull your shoulderblades together.
nowadays to get into the pose, i put my hands under my bum ( my arms are long) and let my breastbone pull up into an arch first- as if someone where pulling me up with a string to the ceiling. ( this pulls the shoulderblades together) then when i can't go any further i bend the elbows, which lifts me up & gives my head lots of room to gracefully fall back & (hopefully) rest with the crown on the floor. much easier! |
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| Hated Poses:
Well, I usually hate all really challenging poses until I "get it" but the ones requiring abs - navasana, etc I really hate. I also dislike bow pose. and any backbends
Loved Poses:
Tree, marichyasana series (though I suck), ardhra chadrasana (a former hated pose), vassisthasana |
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| hey, I'm a messageboard lurker, but this thread was too good to pass up.
fave asana: modified headstand. just because I haven't been able to successfully bring the legs up yet. Unfortunately, it's fear alone that's keeping it modified. also, pretty much anything inverted. shoulder stand, plough, wheel, etc.
unfave asana: locust. I loathe the locust. Mainly because I'm weak in my lower body. |
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| Glad the topic "outed" you Alisha--welcome aboard to the boards. |
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| Oh, goodness.
Delicous Asana:
Absolutely anything involving a deep, juciy, long-spined forward bend;
Absolutely anything involving deep, long hip openers
Repugnant and evil asana:
Anything involving shoulders. Anything.
If there's an arch in the spine? Add it to this part of the list.
John Shumacker (sorry if I murdered that spelling) once said in class that the difference between a beginner and an advanced student is that a beginner moans, "No, I can't do that; I HATE that."
An advanced student says, "Oh, that's hard, but let's see how it goes today."
The latter, thank goodness, is my attitude towards backbends and shoulder openers. They're painful and depress me, but I have hope each day that something different will happen. |
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| >>a beginner moans, "No, I can't do that; I HATE that."
An advanced student says, "Oh, that's hard, but let's see how it goes today." <<
How true!
I hesitate to post here because I have trouble choosing favourites and am somewhat past the "hating poses" stage. I used to hate down dog because I couldn't hold it very long - I was well into Level II classes before I could hold as long as we did in Level I - but now I relish the beautiful stretch and length it gives. I have also learned to love parsvakonasana though I still have trouble holding it for a minute, which I have to learn to do this year for assessment. Shoulder stand I think will be my nemesis for a while yet. Can't quite get and hold that lovely straight line from ankle to shoulder longer than a brief moment to demo in class.  |
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| Mine are probably fairly typical.
Favorites: Sirsasana, Urdhva Dhanurasan, Dwi or Eka Pada Viparita Dandasana, Parivrtta Janu Sirsasana, Virabhadrasana II, Chaturanga Dandasana and good old fashioned Vrksasana.
Least Favorite: Anything that requires a high degree of shoulder rotation such as Sarvangasana, Gomukhasana, even Setu Bandha. Too many years of gym work have left my shoulders lagging well behind the rest of my body in flexibility. Oh yeah, and anything beginning with the word Marichyasana. I think whoever developed these poses to honor Marichy secretly hated him. |
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| I see a real trend here, Love forward bends, or Love backbends. I'm the backbend type myself. Love bridge pose, urdva danurasana, up dog, and even the baby backbends.
Most frustrating pose. Garudasana without a doubt. |
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Location: New Jersey | I take back what I said about hating backbends. I did both bow pose, and camel pose during my session last night, and it felt alot better than is usually does.
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| Strange thing with the backbends is that I don't hate all of them. Probably cause of lack of core strenght I rather like the ones where the bending is done passively, like updog, cobra, bow. Only when I actively have to bend back, like in bridge or camel, that's where the problems are. At least in camel I now manage to rest one hand on the foot while the other hand is still dangling around uselessly. I'm slowly getting the hang of it though.
Yah, and probably the worst asana ever is garudasana! Hateithateithateithateit...........
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| i wonder why the tendency is that if you find forward bends easy your tend to find backbends hard- & vice versa. is it a posture thing? a psychological trait? an anatomy pattern? |
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| Physical tendencies, I think. I am with Stefan - I like updog etc and all the gorgeous Iyengar style supported backbends (viparita dandasana on a chair - yummy!) but any where shoulder opening is required - ack! I remember my father teaching me upavista konasana with my head on the floor when I was 5 years old so I know I could forward bend then and still can get the head down on a good day. I work with little kids and can see physical tendencies at VERY early ages. 2 siblings have the exact same outward hip rotation as their parent who was in my class and this was apparent by about 6 - 7 months of age so I doubt it was "learned" definitely in the body inately. |
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Location: A Blue State |
That's really interesting about the familial hip rotation!
But I'm not with you on the chair supported backbends. I find them totally
uncomfortable. In the sequences of backbends I like, I do the arm supported
ones first, mainly to open the chest, and then go the leg supported ones,
then on the belly (have we decided for or against that word...?). |
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| Bay Guy - 2005-02-19 3:40 AM
belly (have we decided for or against that word...?).
What's wrong with the word 'belly'? I'm only the poor foreigner here who always thought belly is just the translation for the german word 'Bauch' which is absolutely unjudging and ultimately anatomical and political correct.
I thought a little deeper about why I don't like some backbends and found out the problem is not in the spine but it's my shoulders/chest. I can't manage to get my elbows tucked in far enough to give some real support in the bridge. They're sticking out to the sides and it hurts very much if I rest my full weight onto them. Same in shoulderstand, that's why I prefer plough and headstand.
Also one must not forget that I carry around some 40 pounds too much at my belly, that's a huge mass to be lifted up. Makes it easy to collapse in bridge or camel. The spine is not to blame for it since it bends quite fine in both directions.
There you have it, I'm a fat sucker with much too weak abs! My wife might find me sexy but nevertheless I'm not a good role-model as a yogi. 
Edited by afroyogi 2005-02-19 2:07 PM
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| Stefan - several of us didn't use the word belly as children. I think it was considered just a little impolite or not exactly "nice" but not quite rude, either. We said "tummy" which was very cute for kids. But times have changed and I think we can all be grown up and a tiny bit uncouth when the situation calls for it  |
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