ONE ASANA AT A TIME

Whoever took these images (whoever I stole these images from) did a remarkable job of showing Duncan Wong, moving masterfully from one pose to another. If you were to see the flow, no doubt, most people would be daunted by trying the series. These pics, however, break this 'flow' down into manageable poses. You could work on these one at a time before considering combining them.

Let's break it down. The first is a seated position. We can all do that right? Then place the hands on the floor. Done. Inhale deep, exhale, lift hips using mula and uddiyana. (I like to use blocks to lift my hips higher.) Then strengthen the legs and left one heel at a time off the floor.

The second pose is lolasana. From the first position, bend knees and cross ankles. Doable. Hands to floor. Okay. Then use same method to lift hips highter and then feet.

Third pose could be working from bakasana to move to chataranga.

Fourth is cool, could be left out. (Or practice padmasana seated, then in shoulderstand, to headstand, to forearm balance, to handstand.)

Fifth is handstand. Work against the wall from downdog to begin.

I have always wanted to work with Master Wong. Each of these asanas separately are in PERFECT form. Look at the hand placement. Shoulders in front of wrists in handstand. It is all in the detail. You can learn a lot from a picture.

The yoga lesson is that each pose, no matter how hard, can be broken down, modified, etc into some form that is doable for each student individually. The process is the beauty of the practice. Each layer opens into another one.

See you at http://www.blissflowyoga.com/ and http://www.innerfireyoga.com/ this week and we can work on our layering.