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 Your most difficult pose?Moderators: Moderators Jump to page : 1 2 Now viewing page 2 [25 messages per page] | View previous thread :: View next thread |
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| oh, and i don't find it dangerous either. of course, it can be if someone isn't ready to do the posture. and, it's not as if it's a required pose. so no one "has to" do it. but it is a part of the tradition, and i assume that each posture has purpose and meaning, and so if one wants to do it, and can, and does it with the right attitude, then i see no reason to avoid it. and, as i said, i enjoy doing it a great deal.  and i get a lot of benefit from it. | |||
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Expert Yogi Posts: 5098   Location: Somewhere in the Mountains of Western NC | I showed off with a "camel" the other day after drinking a couple of glasses of WINE,  Me Bad Yogi, Bad Yogi, Bad Yogi,  Although.......maybe NOT...I was demonstrating, sharing my yoga experience because someone asked......It was just bad timing with the wine and all,  Edited by Cyndi 2007-10-19 10:55 AM | ||
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| i would see that as demonstrating for sure, cyndi. i tell my beginner's this--'once you start doing yoga, always wear pants to cocktail parties!" people always thought it was funny, but then one woman said that she was asked at a cocktail party what her favorite pose was. she wanted to demonstrate it, because they weren't "getting" the description, but it wasn't a pose that one should do in a dress! she came back to class and shared how i was right--one should always wear pants to cocktail parties. she went to her next party (it was the holiday season) wearing pants, and demonstrated about 3-4 postures as people asked. at the new year, she ended up bringing a lot of new students to the class! so, i don't think that's an ego thing. i find that when i'm in class and i become self judging while watching another student, or i become competitive, or i want to impress the teacher with my ability--then i'm no longer doing yoga. that's just ego. but what's cool is, if i can recognize and acknowledge that, then even "showing off" has taught me something. LOL! | |||
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| zoebird and cyndi a thought to myself on the previous two posts people will ask questions and demonstrations of me. The heart will want to show them, so I will show them. My ego kicks in when I offer more then they are ready for, more then they have asked for. but I also cannot expect myself to be perfect. balance, not always easy, not always hard seeker | |||
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zoebird - 2007-10-19 10:26 AM i would see that as demonstrating for sure, cyndi. i tell my beginner's this--'once you start doing yoga, always wear pants to cocktail parties!" I already do that. | |||
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ollie - 2007-10-19 5:28 PM zoebird - 2007-10-19 10:26 AM i would see that as demonstrating for sure, cyndi. i tell my beginner's this--'once you start doing yoga, always wear pants to cocktail parties!" I already do that. That's because you're not a beginner! | |||
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Expert Yogi Posts: 8442    | Thomas - agreed on the returning after injury thing. That IS tough. I crave handstands to "prove" my shoulder is better, but resist the down dogs and other preparatory poses that will actually strengthen it. I don't know that it is ego, but it certainly is human nature. As for aggression, I disagree. As yoga (asana or otherwise) practitioners, one of the things we are developing in ourselves is discrimination. It is useful and indeed imperative, that we know where our limitations are and how to work to overcome them. If I don't know which poses physically are the most challenging for me, I am a) not paying attention and b) about to hurt myself (perhaps again, if my injury is asana-induced). The "difficult pose" question comes up a lot here, usually from newbies, as did this one. Although s/he doesn't say how long s/he has been practicing, this was a one-time poster, so we have to answer from that point of view. I have actually been following this thread with interest, as the conversation usually quickly skews toward getting quite philosophical and the answers run to things like tadasana and savasana. Once we start in the direction you are going ("you shouldn't be talking about difficulty at all" and "real" yoga isn't about asana - and in many ways I agree with this. Don't get me wrong here!)), we tend to be accused of bullying the newbies. But on your first point, again, I totally agree. Our friend Steve Thornley has written eloquently on this in the past. He has had enough injuries for a whole gaggle of yogins! (What is the term for a whole gaggle of yogins? A flock? A herd?)  | ||
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Expert Yogi Posts: 8442 | Great quote, jim! Brian - parivrtta parsvakonasana will never feel "right" as far as I am concerned. Tha is one crazy, twisty pose! | ||
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| i suppose it will be considered 'unyogic' to say this--but i've never had a yoga injury, so i've never felt the need to rush back to class. . .and beyond this, i'm very rarely injured anyway, or when i have been, i've been happy to take breaks and ease back into asana practice. but, it's been such a part of my life for so long (since i was a small child) and i watched my mother as a yogini and an athlete, that it just made sense to rest and then work with the injury when it arises. repetitive motion injuries are such an important thing to consider--as jim's quote points out. this is why i feel that alignment is so important, and why i'm continually working on the most basic postures before advancing into more challenging or unusual postures, and i'm very cautious as to when i practice them based on how i'm feeling. and there is also this unique experience of coming and going. some days, certain basic postures are very simple (and joyous for that), and other days, they're very difficult. there are days where i can do one 'difficult' posture, but the following day, i can't. i don't take this as a self judgement or a problem--it's usually an interesting observation. beyond this, there are reasons why certain postures are very difficult for me--and it's largely emotionally. i joked this past weekend--at the retreat--that i'm simply not emotionally ready to make my own bread. it's important to recognize these kinds of boundaries too, and it's one of those things that makes handstand so difficult for me. For tourist, it may be the physical aspect of the shoulder. . .but for me it's the emotional aspect--the fear of falling over and hurting myself--that makes the posture difficult for me. ---- as to my original response, i mentioned that forward bends were very difficult lately. yesterday, i had a deep tissue massage at the massage school, and i asked for particular attention on my hamstrings, shins, and upper traps and neck on the left side. i got a whole body massage, of course, but my left side was needing some extra work. during the massage, i discovered--via the sensations that the massage was giving--that my left side has a lot of "bunching" in the muscle--a knot even--but the right side seems to have it more bound up in the sinew, the connective tissue. what was interesting was that, as a student massage therapist, he was very interested in how i was understanding and interpreting different sensation, and making a catalogue himself of what he was experiencing through his hands. we had a good dialogue about it. anway, i went to practice later that day after the massage (which i normally do after deep tissue work, i also drink a lot of water to help release the lymph, etc), and i noticed that my hamstirngs were more open, but also that i could take attention to how i was entering different postures so that i could do more work at the sinew level, or at certain heads of the hamstring, etc. today, of course, i feel completely bruised and battered, and the AM practice gave me a lot of information about those hamstrings. of course, being morning, they're always a bit tighter, but i got a lot more information about the sinew and muscle by working with it this am in a slow way. it's fascinating to me. | |||
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| that's really awesome, cyndi! | |||
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Expert Yogi Posts: 5098 Location: Somewhere in the Mountains of Western NC | Thank you ZB. It is awesome that you can go through a severe sprained ankle and still do your yoga asanas...with NO pain meds....just breathing and stretching...very nice, | ||
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