I've tended to avoid the tic tack for two reasons, first because of space, just not a lot of room in the home shala for getting it wrong and second... well it scares the bejesus out of me. I've given it a half try a couple of times with cushions, kind of like the 'dropback to futon'™ approach. That was going OK but for some reason I put it on hold, can't remember why.
Anyway David Garrigues has just posted a video, the first of three parts, on approaching the Tic tac and I figured, why not. part one is HERE, part two is supposed to be due next week.
In the video he has two main exercises that seem to be mainly to check if your ready for it. The first is an urdhava Danurasana exercise where your trying to press your chest into the wall and get your shoulders over the hands. the second is flipping up to the wall and then flipping back, trying to get the thoracic area of the back more horizontal then vertical.
You have to watch his video for this to make any sense.
So here's my go, chest against the wall seems OK in exercise one and exercise two doesn't seem half bad, bit clunky but can work on that this week before part two comes out, anyway, here it is.
David's blog is excellent by the way. A little while ago he had the boogie board under the shoulder stand post ( I use my other Manduka, folded up) which is an excellent idea for my first Shoulder stand in VK practice. I've also started using his straight leg jump through approach. Thank you David for sharing so much.
He also has a DVD out, can I really justify a new Primary DVD, tempting for all the extras.
UPDATE
...or should that be tick tock's rather than tic tac's as Susan pointed out. I'd always called them tick tock's but liked the tictac idea, reminded me of the mint too, wasn't the ad line 'flip a mint a tictac' or something like that. Doesn't the action of the lid remind you of the action of tic tac itself, nice reminder of what your aiming at.
Laruga calls them tic tacs, Sweeney too, who else?
Perhaps because of working on them yesterday (I wish I hadn't quit working on handstands a while back) but I was really stiff this morning and it didn't seem to go away, horrid practice. Perhaps it was taking the moon day off ( ashtanga anyway) yesterday, no more rest days for me.
I'm too old for rest days.
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Hi Grimmly,
I just received the David Garrigues dvd (both 1 & 2) last week. Absolutely love it. It's chock full of goodies including full led Primary (although with instruction, you might not like that), asana modifications, tips, interviews, etcs. I highly recommend it.
Grimmly, I forgot to include that there is also a led Primary (without instruction), too!
Thanks for the heads up Twist, what's the pace like in the primary ( the one without instruction ) particularly interested in the breath count while in the poses and about how long from opening chant to laying down in savasana?
You do know we call them tictocs, and that tictac is a breath mint, right? :)
Morning Susan
I used to call them ticktocs too but like David's tic tac better, have added an update to post explaining why.
on Amazon you can also rent David's DVD for like 3 dollars which is what? 0.5 British Pounds? maybe a way to try... AND you get it rented for a whole week...
Loved the video, now that the dental pain is subsiding I may try that on the wall, love the "wheeeee" feeling it brings me, just looking at it... weee here we go...
OK, to the mat now.
Haha! Too old. Not.
I used to hate rest days & feel stiff the next day. Just like I used to feel stiff first thing in the morning and didn't believe I'd be able to do an early morning practice. But you get used to it. Now after moon days I feel very strong and flexible. Similar, too, to how when I started doing pincha mayurasana I thought it'd stiffen my shoulders. Which it did for a bit, but now the stiffness is gone. Weird how that works. Almost like patterns get "worse" before they dissolve.
The pace is slower than Kino's DVD. I believe primary is 1 hour 45 minutes for his DVD.
OMG! Sweeney does call them tic-tacs! I'd never heard that. I was just kidding around though, but I can't get the image of the mints out of my head. But I like it better than tick tock, the Ks make it too clumsy IMO. Tictoc... too bad I can't do it yet. Suppose I should look at the tutorial. I think we should all call it whatever makes it easiest :)
Also, totally agree with Karen, the body adapts amazingly.
I looked at Amazon Claudia but they won't let me watch it over here, may have to get it.
Thanks Laura, amazon are listing it at 1.36 for the straight forward counted one, seems a nice pace.
Of course I could be feeling stiff from the tickity tacs tock ticky things...whatever.
I like tictacs ( the orange ones ) was doing it tonight ( just posted ) couldn't get 'flip a mint' out of my head while I was doing it....or trying too.
oh, those zoning restrictions!
Today, if you must know, I tried doing what you did in the video. Bad lady... quite fun it was! kicking the legs up to the wall from further and further away -that was me not in the video-
I know it's just sitting there on the page, $3 to watch and it wont let me grrrrr.
You had to try it seeing as you asked the question, can we expect video's?
Very funny you should ask that G. I actually had the camera nearby and was ready to videotape just to show what a fan of Grimmly I am. However... there are things that are best not videotaped... you can trust me. Hee hee
May try it again and if I feel it is showable will do, I have after all embarrassed myself in public before not new territory...
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