Intentional movement report

[clevermanka]

Monday: Yoga
Tuesday: One of the most amazing yoga sessions of my life
Wednesday: Off
Thursday: Yoga
Friday: Off
Saturday: Punching and Very Active Yoga
Sunday: Restorative yoga

If anyone is actually noticing/reading these things, would you be interested in my listing the poses I use in each yoga session?

Comments

[write-out.livejournal.com]

YES!! Brian and I are going to start doing yoga- he's gone to classes but I haven't, so we subscribed to a yoga channel. I don't know the first thing about it.

And I've been shit about posting my movements, but I have been mostly shoveling (I wish I was joking) and doing a lot of stretching since I can't walk outside with the snow and ice and cold.

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

UGH SHOVELING. Poor thing.

I'll start recording my yoga series tonight!

[pamelonian.livejournal.com]

I am interested in the lists of poses!

As a total newcomer to yoga, I am interested in sequences of poses that I might be able to do at home. I like that it is possible to do something different every time and it is still challenging. Also, with cats around- hilarity ensues!

In our private instruction sessions, I have been writing down the sequences and there is one that I keep revisiting because it is so awesome. It stretches the psoas, which I think is to blame for the tightness that I suffer in my back.

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

As a total newcomer to yoga, I am interested in sequences of poses that I might be able to do at home

It took me a long to time learn how to develop a sequence. I'm slowly learning how to develop a good flow, now.

I would love to hear the series of poses you use for psoas! Please share!

[pamelonian.livejournal.com]

I will share what I wrote down after class. I don't know what any of these poses are called, but hopefully a brief description will help.

After the warm-up, which I did not write down, we did bridges. We squeezed a block between our thighs and held another lengthwise between our palms. Lying on backs with hands at knees, we extended arms over our heads while bridging up, all the while maintaining the squeeze on the blocks. My back really likes bridges.

Then we did a supported bridge with the block under the tailbone, well, that place where it doesn't cause discomfort. From here we bend one leg grasping around the shin or thigh while extending the other straight, flexing the foot, and off the ground. The opposite direction of the flexed foot leg (away) and the bent leg (towards) stretched the psoas. This posture was then repeated on the ground with no block.

The next starts with table-top pose. Extend the opposite leg and arm, turning the foot outward. After 2 reps of this, we bent the back leg in what I can only describe as "fire-hydrant" pose.

Then Sun Salutations (which I really like and hope to get better at) and pigeon pose. Pigeon is awesome! I really need to stretch those hip flexors and my back doesn't like to arch. This helps.

We ended with a shoulder stand against the wall with a blanket under our backs so our neck spine is off the ground.

I hope these lay-person explanations are clear. This is my favorite set that we have done and it really stretches those back muscles that are so hard to access.

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

Yeah, actually, those are really excellent descriptions. So many variations of poses like these, meant for certain purposes, don't have specific names, and you just gotta write out all the modifications. Thanks for doing that for me. I appreciate it!

[redheadfae.livejournal.com]

Wow! those ARE great descriptions outside of a dancer.. what is you do..martial arts, right?

[pamelonian.livejournal.com]

Not a dancer, but I have been practicing aikido for coming up on 16 years. I have been teaching it for at least 12, and the movements are complicated. I have had to learn to break them down so that others can do them. I have taught kids and adults. That probably helps.

Also, I wrote down what we did immediately after each class so that I would be able to repeat the poses on my own.

[redheadfae.livejournal.com]

I knew you weren't a dancer... that's why I asked what movement arena knowledge you have..

You have done the most beautiful break-down of the movement for someone not familiar with it. I had to say something. I know not much of other disciplines, and I totally understood what you meant.
Thank you so much for that.

[pointoforigin.livejournal.com]

I'd be very interested in hearing what poses you used, and also maybe how they affected you and which ones felt the best?

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

Oooo, what a great idea! Will do.