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Saturday, July 10, 2004
 | More Adventures in Yoga (picture not representative of anything I can actually do)
The second Yoga class was more difficult than the first, mostly because I was corrected more. I was able to hold my legs with better lift in the down-facing posture shown to the left, but there is no ways those heels of mine are going to touch the floor, not any time soon. Once you get stretched enough so that you can stand flat footed in this posture, it actually becomes a restful posture. But if your heels are up, then your arms and shoulders are carrying more than their share of the weight. |
We took on a one-footed stance for two of the postures, and I could see that my teacher was surprised that I could maint this pretty well overall, with only a few moments of unsteadiness. That's from years of martial arts katas.
| But the only posture I showed any real ability to imitate (and then it was still pretty amateurish) was what yoga practitioners call "the bridge" and martial artists call "half a bridge". It requires strong legs and stable shoulders, and I have those. I still could not hold it for a fully minute, but I did a better approximation of this than any other posture. |  |
Still, it was good to sweat and just work out for 90 minutes. And afterward ir had the same effect as last time: i was completely tired and relaxed. My back felt better, and I was asleep by ten. The next day I had to drive up to Mt. Airy to meet friends. I woke up much refreshed and ready to go! As the car trip on the way back home turned out to be four and a half hours long instead of two, I was very glad I had done yoga the night before!
