.. am working on an instructor's manual now.. and am excited to return to the basics and rediscover more about each pose... And also to realise how little I actually know about such a vast science...
(Dharma Mittra's famous yoga chart)
Am revisiting Dharma Mittra's rather daunting book " Asanas: 608 poses", and finding more stuff on what each pose means ..below his words..And his book is a great buy, and must-have for instructors:)
(Dharma Mittra's famous yoga chart)
Am revisiting Dharma Mittra's rather daunting book " Asanas: 608 poses", and finding more stuff on what each pose means ..below his words..And his book is a great buy, and must-have for instructors:)
- If you feel yourself closed to someone/or some experience a backbend will open ur chest as well as your heart.
- If you are shy, backbends will help you greet the world with more confidence.
- Standing tall and firm in Tadasana gives you the steadiness and foundation of a mountain.
- Inversions: sometimes it's good to turn your world upside down.
- Forward bends are generally comfortable poses in which the mind becomes quiet and the nervous system cools.
- Arm balance requires a great deal of strength and an extra dose of tapas. (which he defines as involving faith, fortitude, determination, angry determination -- the last one, in a positive sense).
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