Tuesday, June 29, 2004


for all the world to see

and a huge bccy thank-you to incredible altie and scaa consumer member eric sakowski for taking fabulous pix of sunday's coffee cupping event.

devoted readers know that one of the yoga pose flow combinations ("vinyasas") i've been working on for a while now is bakasana (known as "crow" or "crane") up to sirsasana 2 (known as "tripod headstand") back down to parshva kakasana (known as "side crow") and jump back to chatarunga (known as "four-legged staff" or "crocodile"). the flow itself is actually not difficult.

what's hard is to accomplish the entire vinyasa with the breath and with that slow, gentle, effortless, floating quality. this is why i've been taking viniyoga lessons for a couple of years now once a week, to help perfect my moving on the breath and also to develop that weightless, molasses-motion float, which comes about only from being perfectly on when it comes to the inhale and exhale.

and i'm writing to report that i'm almost there! changing the way i'm breathing also changes the way i jump, not only back to chatarunga in surya namaskar (known as "the sun salutation"), but also into inversions such as pincha mayurasana (known as "peacock feather" or "forearm stand") -- which i now easily do in the middle of the room -- or adho mukha vriksasana (known as "downward facing tree" or "handstand"), which i'm still working on pressing up into from adho mukha svanasana(known as "downward facing dog"). . .

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