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Does your warrior 3 look a little more like the second one? This quick warrior 3 hack will educate the front leg hip crease to release back with the strap to help activate gluteus medius in order to properly elongate the spine and activate the core. In the third photo there’s lanother prop set up that will teach the back body to activate to help open the front body and find the tadasana or mountain pose line. Notice the bend in the standing leg to help access the tadasana line. This can be increased or decreased depending on the tension in the hamstrings and back body.
Trying to learn to levitate 🤔 Any advice?
I wasn’t going to post this picture but I was inspired by a post fellow teacher @vytasyoga did yesterday I decided to bring up the topic of extreme flexibility. When I first started practicing I was mostly interested in being able to do all of the yoga poses in Light on Yoga, and making them look just like BKS. I considered that an advanced practice. What I realized was that some of those end ranges of flexibility weren’t healthy for me, and actually hindered my performance surfing, and started to make joints in my body hurt. Then, after a bunch of skateboarding injuries more recently I found that even looking for the safe ranges of motion I had established for my body had changed. And I now have to back way out of some of the poses. So what you see here is a way backed out version of uttanasana because going any deeper will aggregate a sacral injury I got trying to learn frontside grinds in the bowl. It was worth it though 😊 . Sometimes @stagibs and I will shoot for an hour and when I look at what we got I’m so disappointed with what I know I can do but what I have to do to stay in safe range of motion that I end up not using any of the content. I’m not saying this because I want pity, but because something in my head is still stuck in trying to show the poses like in the books I grew up on, to give people an idea of the essence of the actual pose, Which is silly. I should be encouraging our community to find the ranges of motion that work for them. So here it goes. My advice is don’t push, find the barrier, be there and breath. Allow the body to open up and expand without forcing. Hatha yoga teaches us to use our willpower appropriately. ✌️