Headstands
I've been obsessed with yoga headstands and handstands since February. I'm not sure what my deal is, but I just want to be upside down.
It started when Amanda and I began taking a yoga class at the gym. It wasn't a great yoga class – the teacher did a pretty crappy job of explaining moves and talking us through things. It mostly just made me nostalgic for the classes I took in Indy last year. BUT it was yoga once a week, and it got me to start doing some yoga on my own at home, too.
It's a common reaction to panic when a teacher says it's time to work on inversions – they're scary. Your feet are above your head, you feel like you're going to hurt your neck, you could fall over and break your face...and the chances of queefing are high. No one had ever told me the correct way to do a headstand, so I mostly just flung my feet up against the wall and hoped for the best. But as I started getting back into regular yoga practice (ho ho, that phrase is so fancy schmancy) I kept seeing things like this:
Scha-what?
Now watch this woman. This is bonkers.
So I got a little obsessed. And then just for jollies I tried to do a little tripod headstand I remembered from elementary school gym class:
Apparently this is a legit yoga thing called "teddy bear headstand." It probably has a more yoga-like name.
When I didn't kill myself on the tripod handstand, I decided, "What the heck? Let's try a real one." So for the last 6 weeks or so I've been practicing a bound headstand. This thing.
Guys. I can totally do it. And I don't even fling my feet up anymore – I raise them up like I have actual stomach muscles. I probably look like a goob doing it, but I totally feel like a headstand master. Now I get random urges to do a headstand in the middle of the day. And I even figured out the secret to avoiding the queefing. Why bother to go on? Clearly I've already discovered the mysteries of life.
Anyway, I'm feeling pretty proud of myself. Next maybe a forearm stand?
It started when Amanda and I began taking a yoga class at the gym. It wasn't a great yoga class – the teacher did a pretty crappy job of explaining moves and talking us through things. It mostly just made me nostalgic for the classes I took in Indy last year. BUT it was yoga once a week, and it got me to start doing some yoga on my own at home, too.
It's a common reaction to panic when a teacher says it's time to work on inversions – they're scary. Your feet are above your head, you feel like you're going to hurt your neck, you could fall over and break your face...and the chances of queefing are high. No one had ever told me the correct way to do a headstand, so I mostly just flung my feet up against the wall and hoped for the best. But as I started getting back into regular yoga practice (ho ho, that phrase is so fancy schmancy) I kept seeing things like this:
Scha-what?
Now watch this woman. This is bonkers.
So I got a little obsessed. And then just for jollies I tried to do a little tripod headstand I remembered from elementary school gym class:
Apparently this is a legit yoga thing called "teddy bear headstand." It probably has a more yoga-like name.
When I didn't kill myself on the tripod handstand, I decided, "What the heck? Let's try a real one." So for the last 6 weeks or so I've been practicing a bound headstand. This thing.
Guys. I can totally do it. And I don't even fling my feet up anymore – I raise them up like I have actual stomach muscles. I probably look like a goob doing it, but I totally feel like a headstand master. Now I get random urges to do a headstand in the middle of the day. And I even figured out the secret to avoiding the queefing. Why bother to go on? Clearly I've already discovered the mysteries of life.
Anyway, I'm feeling pretty proud of myself. Next maybe a forearm stand?