This is really like cheating.
Today class was interesting as the teacher shared his techniques in some of the arm balance asanas like Koundinyasana 1 etc. Arm balancing poses has always been one of the most challenging to most beginners as these require not only some flexibility ( certain poses ), opening of hips or shoulders as well as some strength. Sometimes even people with great strength may not be able to do some of the arm balancing poses! To many, arm balancing poses seemed to require a lot strength in the arms.
It had been so long since I tried the traditional indian yoga class. Since heeboon has gone for holiday (lucky him!), a new teacher was brought in to teach his class. He teaches the very traditional indian yoga. Very much he will just do the pose and you have to follow. Not much of verbal instructions on alignment. He was very soft spoken and even the people on the first row had problem hearing him. Plus his accent made it worst. It was an ok. It reminded me of the previous indian yoga classes that I have been to with all the stretching exercises in the start.
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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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