Jawahar Bangera

 I attended a workshop this weekend with Jawahar who i had never taken from. It was amazing. I will share a couple things he showed us this weekend.

When i was in sirsasana, i was directly across the room from Otelia, her pose was sorta hard to watch, it was crooked in a way that looked uncomfortable, anyway he told her she was doing the pose from the lumbar and had her come down, the next day as we were preparing for sirsasana he walked over to her and he told her  instead of having her hands cupped for her head, to press the palms together, when she went up...night and day, truly unbelievable!

 I am telling you, this pic below has absolutely nothing in common to what she had been doing...night and day! she said he told her it was for her shoulders, just wow

We did gomukasana work using the rope wall, he said if you are right handed when the right arm is the bottom arm its usually more difficult

top arm: fingers in rope thumb out 

 you must walk away to get the rope pull for the armpit/shoulder opening

 then walk a little toward wall to bring hand to back position 

bottom arm: thumb in rope fingers out, again use the pull of the rope

its nice to take top arm over once the bottom is complete, when you again do in the center of the room there is a noticeable improvement in the shoulders and firmness of the hand grasp

and then there was Virabhadrasana I

there is 1 bent leg and 1 bending leg, the front leg is bent the back leg is bending, the back leg must be straight the work of quadriceps just above the knee move back,  the initial turn comes from the outer hip of the back leg

even if the heel is on the floor, if the ankle of the back leg is turning out you need to be on the 5 year plan, in 5 years you will have the heel on the floor

Place block at the wall,  heel on block, the bone of the heel, crush the block as the front knee bends you should press more, every year come down 1/5 

to change legs - step the foot on the block forward beside the front foot, now move the front foot back to the block. When you look back at the block to step the front foot back, it looks like its about a mile away.  He said it shows you that you always decrease the distance, this teaches the tendency to shorten and short change the second side

 so many wonderful instructions and observations to absorb.