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| Practicing Bird of Paradise |
Third day with the same teacher....that doesnt happen often but I am loving it, Regi is giving me alot of pointers to help improve my postures.
I thought I would find it hard to get to class every day at this point in the challenge but I dont even think of it as a challenge anymore, its just a thing I must do every day and I havent once heard my self say "Ohhh I dont want to go to Yoga"! I wonder what the old me would of said about doing hot yoga or even a challenge like this? Its been a bit hard not being able to see friends and all but the reward is having a mini holiday in Melbourne with them for a weekend.
Regi gave more tips on Triangle so its is starting to make sense and I can starting to feel how I should be sitting in that posture now (I have previously been stepping out too wide).
I was able to do Full Locust better and get my arms way up and back in align with my head.
Yesterday the other posture Regi helped me with was Cobra, I wasnt getting my chest up enough so that is a new work in progress.
Ive have got to that stage that when its time for Camel I want to hi-5 the person next to me cause I get so excited haha.
Bruises - how the hell??? I have bruises on my hips from Floor bow and when going into Locust it can sometimes hurt. Oh well - pushing through the pain.
Salabhasana - this used to be a very much hated pose, now it is a pose I am forcing myself to love because I want to get it right. Only a year into this yoga did I learn to keep my hips level and only during this challenge did I finally get the motion of moving weight into my shoulders to be able to bring up both legs - this really gets my heart racing. I just read in my MasterClass book about getting in and out of this pose - a lot of people get into this posture in such a messy form (me at the moment) and what it explains is to flex your feet up and straight and get both arms under at once, having to only move the body once. Good tip!
It is Bikrams Birthday today - so happy birthday and thank you for introducing this sequence of postures to the world.
ALix
