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Oct. 27th, 2010 06:51 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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exercise_every_dayOi. Sunday was hiking. We did a big piece of the Limberlost Trail, and went down toward the White Oak Falls. A serious hike of about 1.5 hours. NO YOGA, dang it! The 40 days were going so well! Monday. NO YOGA. RL needed me to leave work early, so I left the house WAAAY early. No time. Exercise consisted of a brisk walk around downtown Fairfax - about 20 minutes. Tuesday. NO YOGA. Felt ill, like I was going to throw up. Went back to bed. No exercise of any kind yesterday.
FINALLY!
Today, the Spiral Meditation and Foundation Vinyasa from Fluid Power (Shiva Rea). Then did about 10 minutes of handstand work. Kicked all the way up three or four times, but couldn't hold it. Then some self-guided back bending, supine postures, and forward bending/hip opening, concluding with Boat and Sivasana with meditation. Not a perfect sequence, but not bad. Sadly, with all the RL going on, had squirrel-brain throughout the yoga, that didn't even really stop as I was breathing through the chakras in Sivasana. Oh, well. Hopefully, the RL drama will end by sometime tomorrow, and I can regain some equanimity.
FINALLY!
Today, the Spiral Meditation and Foundation Vinyasa from Fluid Power (Shiva Rea). Then did about 10 minutes of handstand work. Kicked all the way up three or four times, but couldn't hold it. Then some self-guided back bending, supine postures, and forward bending/hip opening, concluding with Boat and Sivasana with meditation. Not a perfect sequence, but not bad. Sadly, with all the RL going on, had squirrel-brain throughout the yoga, that didn't even really stop as I was breathing through the chakras in Sivasana. Oh, well. Hopefully, the RL drama will end by sometime tomorrow, and I can regain some equanimity.
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Date: 2010-10-27 06:50 pm (UTC)You're soooooo close! Honestly, I suspect that if you just keep working on kicking up (not more than a few times in a row, but doing it most days), it'll click in a few days anyway.
For me, it was mostly a psychological thing at this point, of being willing to go for it with that little bit of extra oomph, as if you're trying to kick right over, and then trusting that the wall will be there to catch you and stabilize you.
(Plus my Magic Sofa Cushion. *g*)
One thing I found quite useful was doing half handstand and taking one leg up to vertical, with the other leg still on the wall. There's definitely a moment when you can feel the weight of the vertical leg come into balance over you, and that gives you a taster of having your arms supporting your weight above you.