Savvas Giantsis is owner of House of Yoga in Athens Greece as well as a fourth series Ashtanga Practitioner. I was really nice to speak to such and advanced practitioner and find him to be so relaxed and straightforward about practising and perusing other interests. It great to see also you can healthy and muscular and still do advanced yoga postures.
It is important for us as yoga practitioners to know whether what is stopping us going deeper in a posture is compression or tension because if it is the former we can possibly be causing ourselves harm rather than good. In this video we look at three types of compression using what can happen around the hip as an example.
Bring postures to life with a bit of background mythology brought to you by Nikhil Leal. This time we hear the story of Hanumanasana.
Iain Grysak gives some useful instruction on learning to jump through to seated postures with straight legs.
It can be a bit daunting and definitely tricky to jump and land on your arms for postures like Bhujapidasana. I seek out the help of Matthew Sweeney to shed some light on the subject. He also nicely breaks down the breath and the vinyasa.
I for the life of me haven’t been able to get one leg going one way and the other going the opposite way in mid air. Perhaps with the tips from Matthew Sweeney that might change.
If you can exit out of some of the arm balancing postures in a nice smooth fashion it can add a quality of lightness to the practice. In this mini workshop Matthew Sweeney give some useful advice.
Pashasana is the first posture of the Ashtanga Intermediate series and can be quite a challenge. What to focus on bind or heels down? Matthew Sweeney has some useful tips and even talks about the transition out of it.
In this video Iain Grysak discusses how people with different postural alignments of the pelvis should approach forward bending postures.
Stu digs deep into Marichyasana D from an anatomical perspective.