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Wow - your Kapo is getting better and better. Can't wait to read about stay and your impressions. Regards!
Great photos, Tony. Thx for posting.
Looks awesome!! Like the vatayanasana variation, that might have to slip in the next home practice just for fun :)
Congratulations. No one can accuse you of not having a teacher anymore!
hello! so how did the one leg standing sequence go...looks like you aced it ; ) i cannot for the life of me not use my hands when bending one knee to put the lotus knee on the floor, what's the secret for that one! can't wait to hear how your month went..
You must mean the pictured Eka Pada Kapotasana Indra, that was the first time I'd managed it, very tricky dropping back to one leg as it's less stable. In VK the leg is bent but I think in the Ashtanga version the leg is straight, aesthetically more pleasing I have to say.
Thanks David, thought I could get away with pictures rather than a report, guess not. Finding it hard to get back into the blogging habit though and not sure I want to, that said there's still so little out there on VK that I feel i should do what I can.
Hi Susan. This is true though I'm sure 'they' will find something else to accuse me of. Sometime in the course Ramaswami mentioned something which I guess came from Krishnamacharya, the importance of a teacher having a teacher. I know R would ask K about certain teaching issues he came across, it might have been a therapy issue, which poses for this particular health issue or more general as in how to avoid his flexible young dance students from getting bored with their yoga.
The Vatayanasana is nice, you lower (squat) into it rather than the jump, as in Ashtanga. Lots of little differences, the bent leg Kapo above, straight leg jump back and through, squat to full utkatasana in the Sun salutation etc.
The one leg sequence was hard エスタ. however we didn't move on to it until the fourth week and by then we had been practicing tadasana twice a day which includes a couple of half and full utkatasanas so we'd begun to develop some new squatting muscles. The ex dancers were good at it (as well as some of the one legged squats up and down in triangle), I could get down but rarely back up again, leaning forward helps keep the balance a little. Grew to like the sequence though and will keep a couple in my daily practice,
Well. it seems this one leg Kapo variation is more then tricky. One question I wanted to ask is whether Ramaswami demonstrates some of the poses or is he talking his students through practice? I'm always curious about senior teachers practice - do they still have one or maybe, as KPJ they focus all their energy on teaching? What concerns your blogging, I hope we'll have occasion to compliment your 1000 th post :)
Did you give it a try it Indra? if your normal Kapo is ok then this one is just a case of getting the balance right. First few I tried i kept falling off to the side. On the course I tried it but with my frount leg slightly further out to the side to make it a little more stable and managed to land it, stay for five and then come up again without falling over.
R would do most of the Tadasama sequence with us but everything else he tended to talk us through it. I didn't ask about his current practice.
As for blogging, I just got out of the habit of doing it. My practice is going to be pretty much Vinyasa Krama now (although I'll probably still do a primary on Fridays) and I know that most of the people who come here are ashtangis so what to do, just carry on regardless or have a separate Vinyasa Krama blog.
There's a lot I want to do with VK, I'd like to video all the different sub routines and then some on bringing them together into daily practice options. I'd also like to do some tutorials on some of the more challenging asanas. We get a lot of that workshop/tutorial kind of thing in Ashtanga but with less teachers and nobody doing a Kino or Swenson world tour there's not a lot of it for someone interested in VK. Plus in ashtanga there are a lot of blogs discussing the different asanas and ways at working towards them but very few Vinyasa Krama blogs doing the same thing. It's a wonderful style of practice and the book is excellent but not so easy to turn into a daily practice without some help and guidance...... OK, just convinced myself I need to start blogging again, at least until some more people start writing on this.
Love the pictures and it feels like i'm watching an old friend after following your blog the last 3 years. Very happy to see you at where you are.
Thank you for that Anon and for putting up with me for three years. All this time practicing on my own and then thrown into five weeks of daily classes. I enjoyed it, felt relaxed and comfortable in the class setting and got the whole practicing with others thing that people talk about, supportive, encouraging, group energy etc. That said it's nice to get back to my own practice room and a home practice.
dear Grimmly, nice pictures, thanks for posting them. i'm intrigued by the one where you are sideways to the mat and are going into what looks like chakorasana, but splitting the legs.
i agree with Indra. your Kapo looks amazing, and the one with the one leg in front.
you should blog, Grimmly, I'll read. and you don't know, i may have to be doing a home practice if the shala shenanigans going on here make it impossible for my teacher to teach, or because he needs to find a space that is far from me. i would give your routines a try. right now i can't because i'm in his room so i'm doing what he tells me to do.
cheers,
Arturo
Hi Arturo, sorry to hear about your shala troubles and after you moved closer to the shala too.
Tha pose is quite curious, comes out of one of the parasaritas. The aim is to bring the back of your neck and shoulders onto the mat and then hold the toes before coming back up again.
Sure I'll be blogging again, just got to get back into the swing of it.
Well, I'm just starting to work towards Kapo - still have to work a lot on my quadriceps and my back muscles. I can drop back and stand up, i'm doing laghu vairasana but in Kapo i barely touch the toes. Still a lot of work to do :) Then comes supta vaitrasana which is, for me, a dreadfull pose.
Oh wow, so many men at the VK TT! I should join one too then. Nothing wrong about all the girls coming for ashtanga classes, but yogi boys are damn nice to be around too.
Leg strength does seem to help in Kapo, all those squats in VK have helped mine. Kind of see kapo as beginning and ending in the toes, rather than thinking of it as a bend I like to think of it now as a stretch that begins in the toes on the mat and goes all the way around to the fingers reaching for the toes from above. And hips as far forward as possible till you almost topple over, that's what works for me at the moment.
Which aspect of supta vajrasana are you struggling with practicing at home alone I use a bolster, think there's a video under lables. Owl gave me a good tip, aim the elbows at the floor rather than the head.
Someone else mentioned that there seem to be more guys than normal on the course, wonder why that is. Just looked back at the photos from previous years and it's the same.
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