Yoga

[sartorias]

I've now been doing yoga two years at Underground Yoga in Huntington Beach, CA. I started not long after I suffered a stroke.

Doing some pose correction photos, I thought, what the hey, I'd put a couple up, before the painting I did of Lord Ganesh earlier this summer.

Comments

[folklorelei]

Loved the painting of Lord Ganesh, and love your poses! Go, you!

As to the hardcore places, I think the instructors very much set the tone there. I went to a place in El Segundo which was very accepting of my non-standard body type but I think that was largely because the instructor didn't allow it to be otherwise.

So sad. Yoga, as you say, is a work in progress and is about the individual, not group dynamics. More Western pollution, perhaps?

PJ

[sartorias]

Western pollution--exactly.

Yeah, that is probably true, the instructors set the tone.

[_profiterole_]

Good job on the yoga! And that painting is very impressive! :-)

[sartorias]

Thanks!

[steepholm]

That's very impressive. And I speak as someone who was married to a hardcore, going-to-Pune-to-study-with-Iyengar-every-year, yogi.

[sartorias]

wow! Maybe I'll get good enough for that kind of study, though I realize my years are against me, so my goals are pretty modest.

[steepholm]

Don't worry, you're a far saner person.

[sartorias]

There are some who would argue with that . . .

[temporus]

Fantastic! And a marvelous painting of Ganesha.

[sartorias]

Thanks!

[sartorias]

We had weeks of hot yoga all damn summer. Not for me! But I could see the appeal in very deep cold.

That sounds pretty awesome.

The headstand is actually easy, once all the components are there. (I say that, though it took eighteen months for me to get it. And I still don't have the strength to do one unsupported by a wall.)

[sartorias]

The key is balancing on your forearms so that your head barely touches the floor. (Some can comfortably make a triangle with head and arms, but my monkey arms are so damn long I have to balance on my arms.)