heads up, gentle readers -- tomorrow i'm going to a yoga workshop that will focus the hip and knee. long-time readers will remember that i've had to contend with a couple of injuries in the last 6 months -- a strained piriformis and then a tweaked hamstring.
i've modified my practice a little compensate: instead of doing a hard vinyasa 6 days a week, i've droppd back to 2 days of vinyasa and 2 of viniyoga. the viniyoga is great for developing that floating, graceful quality everyone admires in advanced practitioners. that quality's my current focus while my hamstring sorts itself out. the only way to achieve it is to be less goal-oriented and rigorously synchronize every motion to the breath, which is exactly way viniyoga teaches you to do. it lets you get out of your own way so the yoga can really shine.
the workshop, appropriately enough is on the hip's anatomy and poses that help you work with that anatomy more safely. i hope to learn from this subtle methods for continuing to progress in yoga with fewer injuries! the workshop is being taught at yoga people here in brooklyn by noted senior iyengar teacher francois raoult of open sky yoga.
you'll hear all about it tomorrow afternoon. . .
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