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| I am looking for more challenging yoga moves.Can anybody suggest anything. |
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| David Swenson's Advanced Series Yoga DVD's |
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| How's your savasana Jeanna? That's my most challenging asana. And welcome aboard! |
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| Yeah, it might help if we knew what you were practicing right now.... |
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Location: A Blue State | Jeanna - 2005-03-22 3:09 PM
I am looking for more challenging yoga moves.Can anybody suggest anything.
Sure, look at the plates numbered over 400 in Light on Yoga.
Or the Swenson DVD's mentioned above, if you tend more toward athletics than
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| Bruce - 2005-03-23 4:39 AM
How's your savasana Jeanna? That's my most challenging asana. And welcome aboard!
You must be kidding.. or you may have not practiced other Asanas
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| Actually, MANY traditionalists agree with Bruce. Savasana is often called the most challenging pose in all of yoga.
For all other poses, we must "do" something, we ask our bodies to move a certain way and we receive feedback, then act upon that feedback. It's a process that we participate in, continually changing and always interesting.
In savasana, we ask the body to be completely still - and even harder, ask the MIND to be completely still. Don't think about anything! How long can you do it, before you realize that random thoughts have come up to bother you? Your foot itches, gotta call that guy back, what am I going to make for dinner, something smells funny, this floor is dusty, etc. etc. etc. How many times do you have to call your mind back to complete stillness? This is a very challenging pose, especially for us "busy" Americans. We like to DO things, not just sit around and BE!
So you can see, savasana is a very extreme challenge!
But, I imagine that's not the information Jeanna was looking for! I personally find Crow Pose and Handstand to be completely impossible - obviously I have upper-body-strength challenges to overcome first. But, it is hard to say which poses are "more challenging" without knowing what the current practice consists of. |
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| Check out Andrey Lappa's DVD at Pranamaya.com That'll mess your mind up. He has yoga poses that nobody else does.
If you don't want to spend money, then stand on your head for about an hour and the ideas will come flooding in.
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| I agree - for me, savasana is definitely the most challenging pose. I try to be completely thoughtless but it never works.
My teacher always massages the creases out of my forehead... she says I always look stressed in savasana. |
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Location: Somewhere in the Mountains of Western NC | One of the things that has helped my Savasana practice is..the fact that I have been doing Tibetan Sitting Meditations for years. I really feel that by learning to sit completely still for long periods of time helps with this asana...tremendously!! Although, before Tibetan Buddhism, I just sat and meditated and learned how to control my breathing. After I learned the breathing technique, I found myself going to places I never even dreamed of and it was really nice. I learned to actually enjoy being inside my body and discovering that inner world or should I say that Hidden World. I looked forward to being able to sit still for 1 hour in the morning and an hour in the afternoon. I made this my every day practice. You should try it for 15 mins each time, at least twice a day. Then add more time as you get better...in fact, you will WANT to add more time when you start having more energy from doing it. |
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| When doing yoga. One should not look to practice one challenging pose, but should practice many novice poses in a challenging sequence. By doing so, One should find the entrance to what before was thought to be a more advanced pose but through sequencing of basic poses is seemingly novice.
"Climbing to the top of a mountain will be less difficult if you do not start at the bottom."
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| there is a site by the name of http://www.abc-of-yoga.com/ which will give you all the type of yoga exercises according to your body and your capacity
do visit it
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