In attempt to try and understand the procedure for the primary series I choose to follow Primary Series Ashtanga with Sri K. Pattabhi Jois on youtube. This guy is part of my life dream! I would be so excited to go to India and study with him. I was very happy to find he had a few lessons on you tube. Although I quickly realized that even for the first series I was no where near the level of his students. Part of that was because of the jumping back technique I haven't yet acquired. Kino MacGregor, a yogi that studied under Sri K. Pattabhi Jois, stated that this jumping back technique took her about 4 years to fully develop! From now on this will be a big portion of my daily practice. Kino MacGregor has a video of a step by step practice for developing the jumping back technique. So I will practice with her video a few times to remember how to progress, and then incorporated into my daily practice. I believe this technique is what I need in order to establish all future poses such as the infamous handstand! Moving forward, but jumping back!
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AuthorJennifer Walker |