Asana Advice

Ankle pain in Marichiasana

feeds@yuku.com (yogithomas) — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 02:59:32 GMT

Hey Guys, I'm hoping someone could give me some advice with an injury/pain I've acquired recently…

About three weeks ago I introduced Marichiasana B and D to my practice. I'd been unable to do them before because my hips were too restricted. When I first started B felt really satisfying and relatively easy - I...

what is the name

feeds@yuku.com (michaelkwb73) — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 00:26:26 GMT

what is the name of the pose which we do at the end of the backbending sequence where you hold your ankles in the backbend? tried to find it on the net but cannot find it. Remember seeing the name of that pose in light on yoga before.. Namaste

Laghuvajrasana

feeds@yuku.com (Floss) — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 21:50:23 GMT

Sorry if this has been asked before. I can get my head to the ground but I can't get up. Any advice ?

padmasana modifications

feeds@yuku.com (vegetabodies76) — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 08:47:30 GMT

I injured both my knees ... over zealous adjustments in mari d left me with sprained ligaments...
Been healing for months now ... right knee is back ... can do half lotus ... but left knee just doesn't want to go there...
So ... in poses that require half lotus ... I do the right side ... but only bring ankle to knee on the left side.
Any full lotus ... gets modified to half lotus on the right side.
Is this ok??
Or should I be doing the same modification on both...

Vatayanasana

feeds@yuku.com (sanjaya) — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 07:19:23 GMT

I've been struggling with this pose for a while.

Tips on balancing? Is it purely a bandha thing (the official answer) or does it have something to do with the placement of your foot? How do you keep a high half lotus during the vinyasa?

Whoever said the poses after karandavasana were easy is surely a big joker.

pain in baddha konasana

feeds@yuku.com (lewellen17) — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 14:46:17 GMT

Hi all, I've recently been experiencing pain in my left groin area/upper thigh in baddha konasana and parsvakonasana. Until recently, these poses were not a problem at all, then bang, all of a sudden one day it hurts to bend forward in BK. I used to get my face and chest all the way down in BK, and my belly to my feet with an assist, now my face hovers several inches from the floor and I just can't move any further. Have I done something to my adductors? Is there any remedial action I...

chaturanga dandasana

feeds@yuku.com (iloveyou) — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 21:50:37 GMT

i have a question about chaturanga dandasana. while doing the sun salutations and vinyasa are you supposed quickly go into it into after you do updog and before downdog. i see on d.swensons dvd that he does. but in mysore you dont. and in some led primary classes i have taken you dont. ive been doing it in my own practice for strengh building, but i was wondering what is right. thanks!

Stepping Up in Sun Salutations

feeds@yuku.com (Caroline) — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 07:16:03 GMT

I've been struggling with certain aspects of Surya Namaskara.

Basically, have huge difficulty stepping feet up from Downdog to Forward Bend. Can keep heels down in Downdog, but then when try get feet up between hands I look ridiculous plodding my feet forward, often needing to nudge feet with hands.

This really is most frustrating because it really breaks up the flow and breathing. Not sure if it's just being overweight (in the process of losing at least 30 lbs), since I...

Urdhva Dhanurasana

feeds@yuku.com (Unbearablelightness) — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 09:36:56 GMT

Any suggestions for working on coming up from UD if you don't have regular access to a teacher?

I can walk up and down the wall, but question how helpful that really is. I feel like it doesn't help develop the muscles needed to come up from backbend unaided.

Any suggestions on prep asanas? Or anything that I can work on if I don't have someone there to "pull me up"? Thanks in advance!

triang mukhaikapada paschimottasana

feeds@yuku.com (jonno3003) — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 11:55:15 GMT

Hi People!
Just wondering if anyone has struggled with this asana as much as I do!

I just feel so incredibly off balance!! I use two blocks under the buttock of the straight leg to keep my foot flat and a belt slung round my foot to keep my shoulders even and knees safe. But it just feels like I have incredibly tight quads and am light years away from this asana!! I try to sit in vajrasana to loosen up but again my shins/knees get all tingly......Other asanas in the...

eka pada sirsasana

feeds@yuku.com (yogajohnny) — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 12:19:28 GMT

This is where I am, where I have been for quite some time. As soon as I start to make progress with the pose, I get a lower back disc thing that renders me unable to practice, sometimes for weeks.
I don't feel like I'm pushing too hard. I'm able to keep leg back holding face with hands fairly easily. Anyone else dealing with a lower back thing from leg behind head?

Thanks,
yogajohnny.

Parsvottanasana question

feeds@yuku.com (STS9 Rube) — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 15:49:18 GMT

I'm guessing that this doesn't happen to many people when taking this asana, but when I get into the asana fully (for me) on the first side, which is relatively close to full expression, my toes in my right foot turn blue after being in the pose several breaths. Apparently I guess i'm cutting off blood flow somehow (in the front side of the hip) pinching an artery, vein, blood vessel or something. Its not painful, but gazing at my toe seeing them all turn blue, is kinda disheartening and...

Salamba Sarvangasana

feeds@yuku.com (vegetabodies76) — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 07:57:03 GMT

As is becoming habit - I DID search for a thread regarding Salamba Sarvangasana - but, did not find anything ... so, if I am repeating something previously discussed - I apologize. But, for those of you who wish to contribute - I thank you in advance!

I preface this with although I have practiced yoga for five years and ashtanga on and off for three . . . I have never spent any time or gotten any formal instruction on Salamba Sarvangasana or shoulder stand and it is by far the weakest...

Whats it called in sanskrit?

feeds@yuku.com (kfckev) — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 04:09:52 GMT

While doing a workshop mysore week recently, the teacher had me start doing Drop backs from standing. I just wonderd if there is a sanskrit name for this posture as opposed to the usual Urdva Dhanurasana when done from the floor?

Thanks

KFCKev

Ardha Baddha Padmottanasana

feeds@yuku.com (chaigrl) — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 16:05:13 GMT

I can bind in the seated version but not in the standing version. Any helpful hints would be appreciated!

Moon salutation ( Chandra Namaskar )

feeds@yuku.com (DesiYogi) — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 05:22:14 GMT

Okay please bear with me this is not Ashtanga related.
Has anyone learnt Moon salutation ( Chandra Namaskar ). I read on Dr. Lad's ( Ayurvedic Doctor in USA ) website in USA that its good for Pitta type persons like me. When I googled for Moon salutation I got tons of variations. So I'm not sure which is authentic. Does anyone here know the proper sequence or point to a website ?

Thanks!

Nakrasana breathing

feeds@yuku.com (lemonjus) — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 23:30:49 GMT

Hi All,

I was wondering about the correct way to synchronize the breathing when doing Nakrasana.

I tried two different ways: Inhale on the jump and exhale on the landing and inhale before the jump and then exhale while jumping (using the power of the exhale to 'help' the jump).

Any thoughts ? How do you do it ?

L.

dwi pada

feeds@yuku.com (cosimo) — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 06:28:05 GMT

Hello everybody from Finland,

I started second series a month ago. I was going up to yoganidrasana. I was doing dwi pada with the help of the teacher. Last monday I tried doing it by myself and once I had both legs behind my neck I put my right hand down to the floor, tried to open the chest and CRAAAACKKK!!!! I heard something cracking inside of me, it was painful. The crack was next to the esternon, I think it was the cartilage that unites the esternon and the ribs, the closest to...

vinyasa #3 in sun salutation A

feeds@yuku.com (searchingsamadhi) — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 12:36:17 GMT

Is there a sanskrit name for the posture in vinyasa #3 of sun salutation A?
thanks,
Karen

urdhva virabhadrasana II

feeds@yuku.com (yogalina) — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 06:39:43 GMT

what's an alternative to this pose? Is it ok for pregnant women? Are ther other contraindications?