Coach in MuktaHastaSirsasana (Free Handed Headstand). Widely pointed toward as one of the most vital postures to set up the inner energetics toward Enlightenment, Sirsasana is highly medicinal from a physiologic perspective as well. Improved blood pressure, enhanced respiration, increased peripheral development of the venous and arterial systems, cranial oxygenation (which is why standing on your head makes you smarter and faster to ‘connect the dots’ between the physical and metaphysical planes) and an unmatched conditioner for the neural systems, Sirsasana is also used by the Yogin as a superb postural deviation diagnostic tool…at least, that is what i use this pose for! When standing on my head with the inner locks (see DL Archives for Mula Bandha, Uddiyana, and Jalandhara research) activated, i immediately can read the structural distortion nested in my hips; both long term (karmic/birth/adolescence/sport injuries) and short term (as in compaction from recent running, cycling, climbing, etc).
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However, i have also noted another interesting component about doing Inversion practices…they make me funny as hell…jokes come to me in my apres-Sirsasana that just crack my ass up!…like this one which came to me yesterday…
“What do you call a bunch of Panda Bears sitting around whining?”
Panda-moan-ium!
Ha!
Now, i got YOU moaning, huh!?!
okay, how about this one..
“How come gossipy people always go for the jugular?”
Because they are so vein.
Hurts, eh? Oh, these things just come in waves to me…
“What do you call a lion that doesn’t roar?”
lion down on the job.
ooooof. and to think you are paying MONEY to hear this crap! now THAT’s FUNNY!
How should you feel at the top of a mountain?
A little run down.
😉
i got bijillions of these things…must be a Granthi processing…
Send me YOUR HeadStand Humor…i’ll be creating a WF Forum for DL Subscribers over the months ahead so you’ll be able to Search under myriad categories of the wide, wide world of WF, SUNRIDER Herbs, and HP Yoga® for all sorts of topics, articles, discussions, haiku, and….maybe even, HEADSTAND HUMOR!
“What do you call a Yogini from Brazil?”
Hardly anythong.
oh geez…i’m going to ride my mountain bike….
here, i will leave you with some coaching clinic proper…
enjoy your Practice and may the Breath Be With You…
namaste,
your loving (and VERY FUNNY) coach
Here is the HP Yoga® way to get into MuktaHastaSirsasana; from AdhoMukhaSvasanan (Downward Facing Dog), slowly lower onto the Bregma or Crown points on the skull casing…this alone can take a few weeks or months to feel comfortable. Once you can hang out in a Head-Supported Down Dog with smooth Ujjayi breathing and relaxed tonality in your muscles, then, balance solely on your Crown, reach back, find and grasp the soles of your feet with your hands. This capture of the feet is big for it now allows you months of opportunity to work the Reflexology and Trigger Points located all around the soles of the feet. Every now and then, begin pressing new strength into the Earth from the top of your hands, eventually floating the legs off the ground with precise control…make SURE Mula Bandha is engaged and take several months to steadfastly lift the legs with control; both at the same time is best. Once you get the double leg lift off, then, it’s just a matter of minutes before you can stretch your feet overhead and BINGO! Look Mom! No Hands! No Walls! THAT’s THE HP YOGA® WAY!
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