The video that started it all (see 'I love gymnastics' post).
Another video.
That was fun.
We aren’t finished here
It has been a long road. I recently published all of my blogs onto one platform. Since 2007 I have had 29 blogs. That’s close to 80...
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Maybe it is like ladies' holiday, you take the first three days off to rest. Or maybe you just keep practicing and sweat it out. Persona...
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Okay, now, while I don't think yoga should be learned from pictures, I do know that this is how I started my practice. I hunted these p...
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Reading this or any blog could be constituted as a distraction. Just thought you ought to be made aware of this. I thought I might as well ...
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I've been asked this so many times. How the #%&! do you jump through? ? Well... Magic. My long monkey arms. I don't eat meat. I...
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"You are enlightened until you think that you aren't." -David Williams (Photo from David's website http://www.ashtangayog... -
Why on earth would I care whether or not my students waited for my count before moving into upward dog from chaturanga? I ponder this ques...
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In the winter, the balmy, sticky, cold, and rainy days make me scared to go to practice. I feel like an old hinge and a rusty bike chain al...
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Sometimes there is a formula for when you get a pose. You sense it coming, look up at the right time, know the teacher is talking to you, a...
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I don't know that I was born a pc person. We've had a couple of old macs in the past. But it just turned out that I always seemed ...
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So what is "the work"? I think it depends a bit on the perspective. In the previous post, I was referring to certain incidents tha...
3 comments:
I find myself a bit obsessed with gymnastics too - and I find that a bit disturbing. Like, why is there this connection between gymnastics and Ashtanga? It's almost like Ashtanga's dark side is gymnastics or something like that? Not sure. Not sure I can even cop to this. But there it is.
God, that little girl sobbing on the floor, trying to push her leg away! Reminds me of the torture devices my sister and I would rig up when she practiced gymnastics and I practiced ballet. We'd sit on each other in splits, I'd put my legs in the froggy position to force turn out and she would lay across my knees and force them to the ground. Or we'd practice 'plier' in the small space between the bed and the wall so that we couldn't cheat it. We'd each say to the other, 'don't let me out even if I ask you. Hold it for 2 minutes'--stuff like that.
Well, is it bad to say this? Asana *is* gymnastics. It's all the rest of it that makes it yoga, isn't it?
Fun?
No, child abuse.
Jackie
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