While working on wheel pose and how to assist in it, trainee Marie had a bit of a break through in this pose and found herself in a beautiful wheel. Very cool to watch, and photograph of course.
You'd be surprised, Ange, when you get your spine in the pose the rest of you just wants to come up with very little effort. Our teacher, Sarah, is big into helping us learn to do less in poses, instead of trying to muscle our way into them (which really defeats the whole purpose). Doing this can really make some "challenging" poses actually restful and very comfortable. But it takes a bit more figuring out and experimenting, you can't just look at a picture in a book and try to copy it.
I think I would end up straining or spraining something trying that!
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Beautiful.
ReplyDeleteYou'd be surprised, Ange, when you get your spine in the pose the rest of you just wants to come up with very little effort. Our teacher, Sarah, is big into helping us learn to do less in poses, instead of trying to muscle our way into them (which really defeats the whole purpose). Doing this can really make some "challenging" poses actually restful and very comfortable. But it takes a bit more figuring out and experimenting, you can't just look at a picture in a book and try to copy it.
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