This is just such a hard posture in many ways. First you need a steady pinch mayurasana, then you have to be able to get your feet into padmasana without using your hands. Once you have that you have to lower down and stop on your arms before gravity plonks you on the floor. And if that is not enough you are meant to lift back up again to where you started. There is even a special nifty exit from…
Laruga Glaser gives some great technical breakdown on Marichyasana A. Also with a few probing questions from Stu.
I join Laruga Glaser to discuss the details of Urdhva Dhanurasana. She give an example of a nice shoulder opener too. This is one of the new style where I with the teacher getting extra info for you.
Stu sits in with Laruga to find out the finer points of the posture Trikonasana.
Such a tricky posture and Joey does a great job of breaking it down and giving plenty of options and things to work on.
Mark is a great teacher and such fun to do stuff with. Here we look at Karandavasana one of the tricky arm balances in the Ashtanga Intermediate series. Going down under control is one thing coming back up is a whole different kettle of fish.
This is one of those postures that if you are strong you think what is all the fuss about, but if you are not strong it can seem impossible, particularily to go backwards. Mark gives some great tips for refining the technique and to help you to lift from the floor.
The wonderful Joey Miles gets to grips with this challenging posture. Some really useful detail and explanations of restrictions.
This is a posture from near the end of intermediate Series so for sure it is challenging. Mark has some interesting observations and tweaks to this posture that might work for you. If you don’t do padmasana you are probably not open enough in the hips to attempt this posture so play safe.
About half way through the standing postures in Ashtanga you find Prasarita Padotanasana, not an overly complicated posture but still presents some challenges. There are also some things that we can be doing in this posture to get the most out of it.