Day 9 Towards..... coming up from Karandavasana Slow-motion

It's one thing landing Karandavasana when you practice the asana on it's own, quite another when you attempt it in it's correct place in the series. Already getting tired by the time karandavasana comes up in 2ND. Took me three goes too, the first two I came down too quickly and bounced off my forearms. This is the third attempt. Still came down a bit fast but managed to land it. Sure I'm not supposed to be that squished though. Had a mild attempt at bringing it back up again. the picture on the left is as far back up as I managed, pretty lamentable.



Susan suggest a tighter lotus and and pressing the knees towards eachother to help generate the lift, so will try that tomorrow.

I'm reminded too of this from David Swenson,
" It is imperative that you maintain opposing forces of lifting and lowering at the same time. This means that as you are going down you are simultaneously lifting up yet with slightly less effort. This will control your decent. The bandhas are your support line. Once your legs touch the arms you must maintain and equality of both lifting and lowering. If you allow your weight to sink at this point it will be impossible to climb back up. To come up, add energy to the lifting mode and decrease the sinking force. "
David Swenson : Ashtanga yoga. "The practice manual".

LATER
Just had to give the pressing the knees towards eachother thing. Maybe a little bit of lift, going to have to think about this, but starting to think it might be doable.....but by next saturday?