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  1. purewonka

    FUN! Thanks, this is a new variation for me. Adding it to my practice. For those of us with wrist issues, doubling up your mat under your hands helps a lot.

  2. barelylegalpigeons

    Come on man, esotheric yoga speak, is bloody exclusionary, people need to know exactly what muscles to focus on… “melt your heart” and “side bodies long” is just an abridged way of saying “do movements, x, y z,” in a specific sequence… No one’s psychic, so you need to use english, especially when you’re getting people to balance on their arms with their faces an inch away from the floor.

  3. barelylegalpigeons

    stuff like “side bodies long ” “melt your heart”…is gibberish…Seriously, when you first learnt to do these poses, no one said to you “side bodies long” and melt your heart” and you went “oooooh i totally 100% understand the mechanics of exactly what that means.”

  4. barelylegalpigeons

    in order for most people to learn how how to do parvsa bakasana, they need to understand the body’s alignment before pressing up into this armstand. “bringing your arms to the left side of your body” is insuffiencient detail. You have to explain “where are you toes and hands are facing prior to fully acheiving this asana (i.e., angles and inches of width or ).

  5. neeshazollinger

    Soulsearch8,
    instead of going for the full poses, work on the foundation of your hands firmly planted in poses like downward dog, plank and chaturanga. Keeping your hands steady, work the muscle energy of pulling your forearms toward one another and using your biceps to widen the upper arm bones away from one another. This will line up your arm bones to set the conditions for tennis elbow to heal.

  6. soulsearch8

    neesha.. wow… just wow…
    is there a modification for parsva bakasana, in case one has tennis elbow? is it even advisable to do the pose, with tennis elbow?

  7. catgumart

    Did this practice and it lifted a heavy depressed feeling! cant do the full eka pada koundiyanasana, but I can do the initial arm balance before going into it..”something to work towards” to quote Duncan Wong. I still need to memorize the sandscrit names of the poses..
    thanks for this workout!