Today we looked at the anatomy of our cervical spine (where the neck meets the skull). We looked at the benefits and contraindications of inversions(where the head is below the heart), we then looked at how to get in and out of them. We looked particularly at headstand and shoulderstand.
For our practice we worked on invervions (derrr!). M is good at headstands, so is S. We're both working on going up with feet together, pausing midway, going all the way up. And coming down with feet together, and pausing halfway, and then coming down completely. It takes a lot of core strength and balance but we'll get it soon enough! Shoulderstand was eye opening. When we were in London, we went to Jivamukti in Ladbroke Grove and they would go into shoulderstands so non-chalantly that we didn't really know how to get into it, until today! We could now stay up there forever.
Our lunch was with some really cool yogis in the studio because it was a rainy day in Van-city. We saw our teacher, R, doing awesome handstands in the middle of the room. Our other teacher, E, was into a real deel hamstring stretch. Kinda like our own personal circus during lunch.
After lunch we went over our sequence that we did in our practice and its component parts. We then practiced taught with 3 friends. And that was the end of our day!
We got a ride so we didn't have to walk too far, and we did laundry tonight! It's the first time since we got here- which is kind of gross. We packed all of our yoga stuff (and some street wear) and walked over to the laundermat. All of our stuff was already in the process of being wash and S forgot to put his socks in the wash. We had to emergency stop the wash and put S's socks in. It didn't have the suds power after that and our clothes didn't have the fresh smell we thought it should've had. We're going again next week.
Oh, talking out our friend CB, we didn't make it clear that our unisex pants are more for lounging than bending-and-farting (yoga!).
We wanted to videotape a series of Surya Namaskar A (Sun Salutation) but we're tired and in pj's. We'll do it tomorrow!
Stay grounded,
S and M
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