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| Prasarita Padottanasana C (Wide-Legged Forward Bend) - © Yoga Mama |
Yoga pose of the day is Prasarita Padottanasana C, otherwise known as the Wide-legged forward bend.
When I was training to be a yoga teacher, one of the 6 purification techniques taught to us was Jala Neti ( also called Neti or Jaaneti). Purification techniques are sometimes performed as a way of preparing the body for a yoga practice. Whenever the neti pots came out, I disappeared, always needing to be somewhere else at that moment in time… I had many techniques to avoid it: the bathroom, the water fountain, the shop, anything but the Net. Pouring a saline solution up my hooter was really not for me and I have avoided it right up to today. I have got a steaming cold and, as a result, I now have sinus pain, so I have decided to give it another go. Talk about waiting until your back is against the wall! I rushed to the Sivanada yoga studio nearby and bought myself a ceramic neti pot and salt. I had to follow the one photographic image as the instructions were in German!!! Although I did not find it as unpleasant as some people describe, it was not as bad as I remembered. So I will us
love this pose! (when I am not falling out of it! ;)
ReplyDeleteI did fall out of this pose once and took out about five other yoga students,oops.
ReplyDeletehaha! guess that's one advantage of home practice: only scared the dog!
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ReplyDeleteThe Bandhas are quite important in deepening and balancing this one, at least for me.
ReplyDeleteBandhas are very important in this pose. I also find it useful to lift the inner arches of the feet, grounding the outside edges...Thats when Im not falling over of course. :-)
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