Yes! Today I had a minor breakthrough for my headstand. Managed to really balance for a slight 2 seconds ( … not 1 but 2, not 3 but 2… yes 2 seconds… )
Perhaps my headstand is coming to fruit soon.
What happened was I went for an Anusara 1 class where Bo had us do the headstand push ups. Meaning we go into headstand against the wall and then lift the head off the floor and back on the floor again for several times. I find that today my body is lighter and some how more light. Perhaps it is because my head is clear and more focus during class? Hence the push ups were not to difficult to do.
After this class, I went for Power 2 class. During the class, I find lightness ( apart from a light nagging pain in the inner groin when doing reverse warrior ) and strength to go through the class. I guess the Anusara 1 class helped warm the body up and more open to do this class. Some other people were groaning but I find it ok to go through. Weird huh?
Heeboon did his recent favorite flow ( several other flows before working up to this one ):
1. Down dog.
2. Left left leg up into 3 legged down dog. ( extend the leg up strong and engaged )
3. Lift the right heel up to lift the left leg even higher.
4. Sweep the lifted left leg inwards with the knee to the chin ( body curved )
5. Then put your left feet in between the palms ( no sound ) into a lunge.
6. Sweep your arms into Warrior 2. ( do it with style, with the back arm sweeping behind the head )
7. Exhale into Reverse Warrior.
8. Sweep back into Warrior 2.
9. Then move into Garuda arms ( the front arm on top of the back up ) and squating.
10. Bend your body and push your Garuda arms towards the front and your hips back.
11. With Garuda arms, swing to the back and turn into Warrior 1.
12. With Garuda arms and in Warrior 1, go into a backbend.
13. Then come back up and go into Resting Warrior with Garuda arms.
14. Lift the back leg from Resting Warrior and go into Warrior 3 ( all warriors have been deployed!! )
15. Then slowly move the back leg to the front and go into the full Garuda pose.
16. Slowly disengage the same back leg from the Garuda pose and flow back into Warrior 1 with the arms still in Garuda pose.
17. Release arms and put palms on the floor.
18. Float the front leg back and slowly go down into Chaturanga.
19. Upwards Dog.
20. Finally Downward dog.
Repeat for both sides of the legs.
I like this flow. Powerful and yet graceful with strength. 
But you need lots of concentration.
Then after we did all the inversions. One of them was headstand which he wanted all of us to do the [tag]Hatha yoga[tag] way. Meaning to go up with both knees towards chest, then knees towards the sky before straightening up to the full pose. I went up against the wall and managed to stay in headstand for 2 seconds full balance without the wall.
I am contented….
OM~
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