Disproportionate ME

Yesterday night was home practice. Skipped Mysore class because I felt super tired, wouldn't do good to push myself that morning. Come evening and I was itching to exercise.

This time I did not cheat - a half vinyasa every single side and pose. I skipped the full vinyasa... maybe if I really want to burn more I would do the full vinyasa after Kukkutasana. I found that it gets easier when you don't think too much about the tiredness of it all.

One thing I realized: I have a shorter arm at my right side. I only realized it when I was doing Wheel and trying to straighten my arms and my left side was not fully straight. And when I tried doing the preparatory pose of a putting your head on the floor with your hands cradling your head, my right elbow did not quite reach the floor. I tried doing the modification of Kapotasana, and the same thing. My left arm reaches the wall first, which made the bending back difficult cause I was misaligned.

I would have to ask my teacher about this.

So, home practice: My jump through have improved somewhat. I probably nailed a near perfect jump through 60% of the time. My jump back needs more work, especially the swing through. I need to keep in mind that I should use the swinging momentum (just like in Bhujapidasana) to send my legs through and back. Sometimes it happened; most of the time it didn't. But I wasn't stressing. I have come to learn that in yoga, like any other poses, all you need is practice practice and practice.

As usual struggled a little bit in Utthita Hasta Padanghustasana and the next pose following it. It's just so hard to keep things balanced while keeping your lifted foot pointed. I nailed Bhujapindasana this time... need to work on keeping my feet off the floor while lifting up. I managed to put my feet behind my head sitting up in Supta Kurmasana, but wasn't able to go fully down.

I didn't do headstand... promised myself not to do it until after I get myself checked. But I did the preparatory pose; the Dolphin. Just to strengthen my shoulder. Skipped Setu Bandhasana too, and did the Bridge instead. When I did the Wheel, the disproportion of my arm startled me - especially after I tried other backbending poses. Right now reading up on articles of how to warm your body up to do backbend. Didn't know I have a stiff upper back.

Maybe a Mysore class tomorrow? I don't know...