Yoga Journey | Yoga For Health And Joy In Life

I was reading about the world of plastic surgeons and how many women and even men go to them to change their faces and bodies in order to look good. There was even a recent article in the newspaper that had plastic surgeons guess what are the possible surgery that each of the famous stars had done with their before and after photos.

Sometimes I guess it does help one boost his or her confidence.

One of the most common plastic surgery is the nose job or rhinoplasty.

Yes, here’s another exciting segment of learning headstand.

I am proud and happy to announce that I am now doing a 4 second headstand!

Glorious!

For the very first time, I can feel myself being able to balance for a whole whopping 4 seconds. Ok, it may not be alot to many people but for me it is a great sense of achievement. ( much like the day when I figured out how to kick up to a handstand against the wall ). This is the first time I can feel my weight on my elbows and head and by shifting those weight, I can sense that there was balancing action working. I guess part of the process is to get used to being upside down!

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In yoga, there are inverted poses that includes variations of Salamba Sirsasana ( headstand ), handstand and Pincha Mayusara ( forearm balance).

Inversions are not regular day to day orientation that our body are used to. Hence most people are pretty much dis-orientated when doing inversions and often fear of falling kicks in. Yoga enables us to put ourselves in situations that are uncommon in our day to day life and allow us to challenge ourselves and in process learn more about ourselves and our bodies.

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Not this crow… more like chicken. With a dang heavy bottom.

Why is it called Flying crow? ( Eka Pada Galavasana : see pose here ) I often wondered…
Why not flying dove or flying falcon or flying sparrow?

There must be a trick to get the back leg lifted up despite the bottom… in today’s Heeboon’s Hatha 2 class, he asked us not to go into Chaturanga hands… erm… but just shift the weight forward. He mentioned about the prana and apana, the balance of 2 forces in this pose. Prana is the upward force and Apana the downward force. I found this interesting article on Prana and Apana at this page and here’s a quoted paragraph :

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It’s been a few days since our beloved anusara teacher, Bo went for his holiday. I have missing his classes. I did try to go to other teachers’ classes like one of the indian teacher who took over some of his classes. Perhaps I am too used to the Anusara yoga way and the indian teacher is not very clear in his instructions ( thank god that I still have heebs class to look forward to…not anusara yoga but still darn good and inspiring powerful yoga flow… these 2 teachers are my staple… can’t imagine what will happen if they both leave the yoga studio *HORROR* ).