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.
Ayurveda is the sister science to yoga and well worth exploring. Prem gets you started with this great little video.
The wonderful Joey Miles gets to grips with this challenging posture. Some really useful detail and explanations of restrictions.
I really enjoy interviewing a yoga couple because you get to appreciate how they interact and relate to each other but also the two different energies, approaches to the practice and body types.
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.
Popular Swedish teacher Josephine Selander talks about the different Chakras and how might choose to relate to them in the practice.
Sabina Skala is a professional strength trainer for the likes of combat fighters, triathletes and serious serious sports competitors. In the search for finding out how the whole strength thing works I thought why not leave the yoga bubble and go interview someone whose job it is to know. We mention a workshop in the interview, that can be found here too just go to Sabina’s Profile under the menu ‘Teachers”
This workshop looks at the correct technique to perform some basic strengthening exercises an accompanies the video interview that I did with Sabina. Find the interview here:
Asana School returns this time looking at standing posture Trikonasana. What could be more simple than making a triangle with the body? Well it turns out lots of things.