Kino's new channel on Youtube

Has the home Ashtangi ever had it so good. I haven't been practicing that long, four years, but when I started you had to really hunt around for material. In fact that was the motivation for the blog ( which I began 3 years ago this week), to bring together as much information as I could on the jump back and through. The other main objective was to share the development of my practice.

The videos that were around were of Ashtangi's doing things well, really well. If you went to a shala you'd see people at all different stages of practice, not so the home yogi. I thought Lino's jump back was how it was supposed to be and for a long time was trying to emulate that beautiful controlled lift up and hold, fold, draw back through and float up and waft back to a soft landing.... BIG realization when I grasped there were perhaps several easier, just making it through, versions to be going on with.

I wanted to catch every major development of my jump back and ultimately catch it on video the first time I nailed it, I did too. I'm happy to say that I also happened to catch and share my first dropback, first time coming up as well as catching my heels in Kapo, my first Karandavasana during that 14 day karandavasana challenge series and others beside.

And more and more Ashtangi's are posting their 'work in progress', everyone seems a little less shy about sharing their noble failures as well as their successes. It's a community, nobody cares how rough it is, how sweaty you are or what your wearing.... mostly. It's not one way of course either, we often get back little tips and suggestions in our comment boxes from those who've been there before, as well as encouragement and even the odd bit of criticism which isn't always bad.

I don't know, It's more realistic seeing a video of somebody who has just that morning nailed a posture. You can kind of see the structure of it more, the rough edges are often more revealing than the smoothed out ones.

So YouTube is a flood with Ashtangi's now, as well as the armatures we have senior teachers posting tutorials, David Garrigues dropback tutorial comes to mind and now Kino (link to her website). There have been a lot of demo's from her workshops floating around, but now she's gone out and launched her Kino yoga channel. Your thinking another Sun salutation tutorial right, you'd be wrong, ( well perhaps next week ), so far we have

Marichyasana D
Straight leg jump through
Lifting up out of Utkatasana
marichyasana C
Scorpion handstand
Learning kapotanasana
Standing up and dropping back
Purvottanasana

that's quite something to be going on with and  it's not just beginner stuff either, not just primary but also postures from more the advanced series as well as some nice touches to pimp your Primary.

Here are three of my favourites as a taster.






Here's the link to Kino's channel so you can check out the rest. There's a banner on the channel that says 'New videos every month" so it might be worth subscribing.

There's one moment, think it's in the Mari D video where she says something along the lines of

"If your trying this at home......."

As I said, the home Ashtangi's never had it so good.

Thank you Kino.