Have you ever started to dropback and then all of a sudden, before your halfway committed you find yourself flying back upright, unintentionally. It's kind of like a spring, KADANG! and your back up.
I've noticed it more recently as I've been working on Mahele's nutation of the pelvis and opening of the the sit bones. I tilt my pelvis in anti clockwise, open the sit bones and then try and force my hips as far forward as possible, trying to lengthen out of my hips all the time. The other thing I've started to do is really try to straighten up through the legs.
Now if you find that point as you go back just before the spring is about to go off, you can kind of ride it back, almost bouncing on it. You can feel it wanting to throw you back upright and every time it does you push your hips a little further forward into it and bend back some more.
That's the best I can explain it. But try it and see if it starts to make sense. Anyway It's helped me to finally begin hanging back, I mean really hanging back. I still don't trust it, or myself, completely but it's coming and I'm beginning to feel more comfortable such that I can start to take a couple of breathes while hanging all the way back.
I've been wanting to post a video on this for the last couple of days while I'm still only just beginning to hang, very much work in progress. I left the bit at the beginning where I came back up via the 'spring' .
Talking about coming up I've been trying to engage the 'spring' when coming up too. Trying to come up to the point where I can engage the Spring and let it do the rest of the work. The other thing I'm thinking of is how when the spring engages the feet don't move. Mine are still splayed for the first push up, wondering if this approach might help me to overcome it.
PS. Just think how much better this is going to look on the new ipad : )
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Lackadaisical ... Great new word!!! I will try what you suggest today... I'm not as advanced as you and find that when I really stretch the front of the body I get adrenaline shots... I used to also get them in kurmasana... Perhaps my fight or flight thing takes yoga way too personal, needs to chill. Oh are you getting the ipad? Did you hear that there were no women in the marketing team (hence the not so cool choice of name)? It's cracking me up...
I'm going to practice non attachement and not get it on the day it comes out, leave it a week perhaps.
I can't believe the name. Ugh! What was wrong with iTablet? For heavens sake. Has it reached laughing stock proportions yet? [doesn't stop me from drool drool drooling, raga times ten]
Grim, my hang back looks like samasthiti. Yours looks terrific to me!
Your term limits on non-attachment are "peculiar", hee hee
yes maya9, I believe it is reaching laughing stock proportions
Huge progress in comparison to what I have stored in memory. Everything under control now, you look relaxed.
thanks Ursula, Maya, it's coming on. 'like samastiti' made me smile.
Yeah, it looks much more comfortable and deeper. I agree that what you have to find in order to really HANG (not hold yourself) back is that opposing force that holds you up. Springing out of it is inevitable sometimes whilst playing that edge... I actually sprang all the way out of chakrabandhasana today, never done that before! Learn to control the coming up, though, don't trust 'the spring'... cos it equals flying into that wall in front of you (or into the arms of the teacher) :)
Oh, I know the spring - all too well - I flew into the arms of my teacher once. Highly embarrassing.
Like the idea of playing with it for the hang, too - I'll be trying that the next few months.
That dropback looks fabulous; agree with the others - the level of control has really ramped up - several notches. Bravo!
Thanks, Lew, Hi Susan, quite a surprise sometimes, must be a few bloody nosed Ashtangi's out there. think I'm moving into a backbend phase, probablbly not to the 108 extent but the 12-20 sounds interesting. (oh this relates to yesterday's backbend post, getting mixed up ).
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