workshopp

It's been a week after eid, and surprisingly enough my practice during the ramadhan has been great. Pretty consistent. I lost count a couple of practice days so I'm not even going to put them here.

 I want to talk about the amazing arm balance and backbending workshop I attended during the weekend. the first day was backbend which I was really looking forward to.

 we warmed up with a variation of the surya namaskar, which got me all hot and sweaty. Then we procedeed with backbends. we did the sphinx, the salambasana, the bow pose, and then we moved to the padangustha versions - which really worked my shoulder cause they are so tight. I loved working on that. I did it with straps cause my feet got really sweaty. But my shoulder really felt it. then variation of eka pada raja kapotasana. Then we did the uttrasana, then the second series backbending leading up to kapotasana. I could feel my body or rather back getting better, as in, there wasn't much complaining felt from the lower back region.

 When we moved to wheel we were playing into the pose for a while that my back started getting intense. We then moved to dropback and this was where I struggled. The front of my body kept on shaking so hard when I tried to lift up my arms and bend backwards. It's a struggle I have to keep practising with.

 The next day was arm balances, which I have a little bit more confidence in. It was good we did the bakasana, titibasana, the grasshopper (which I nailed!!) the eagle one legged pose, the astravasana, the parsva bakasana etc. I enjoyed this class.