Saturday, 28 March 2009

Day 8 Towards karandavasana - The goose has landed.

Day 8
The eagle.......well goose, has landed. Not pretty, not much control, in point of fact, it was more of a controlled fall on to my arms, but landed all the same.
Took three attempts. the first I landed on my backside, which was fine because it got rid of all the fear about what happens if you fall in lotus. The second attempt I landed on my arms but couldn't hold it. The third, I landed, managed to hold it and also realised I don't have a clue as to how to get back up again.

videoKey difference was overcoming the fear and also getting a sense of the point of balance. As you come down you feel like your on a knife edge between toppling backwards. But that just means you have enough weight behind to counterbalance the lotus coming down.

1 comments:

susananda said...

Hehe.. yeah that's one good thing, it's perfectly safe to fall out of. Er, unless you fall onto your face, of course :)

Now's the time to tighten up your lotus, because pressing the knees towards each other really helps get the lift through the lower back. Of course I can't get up yet, but that's what keeps me lifted on my arms, as opposed to the ignoble slide backwards..

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