"Light on Yoga"-Project: 11th week - being in the pose...

A wonderful teacher of mine once said, when we make a pose for the first time, it's oftentimes hard to really BE in the pose. Not because of physical pain, but just because the body doesn't fully understand how the asana works. There are some poses in the last some weeks, that are very new for me - and I can feel my body AND my mind going "uhm, what??!", when I do them. (For deeper understanding please check my facial expression on the Parighasana-pic ;-) ...)

Still, as they say, it gets easier over time, for both mind and body, and I start to feel more and more at home in these poses. So repetition helps ;-) (even though I still catch myself rolling my eyes at Mr. Iyengar's weird ideas sometimes ;-) ...)

In life off the mat the "uhm, what??!"-feeling cought me last week after my final return from Istanbul. I could feel, that I was not BEING in my life for days, feeling foggy in the head and being very unproductive...

We all experience changes in life sometimes, that are so severe that our mind and body need time to settle in to them. Sometimes, we can just do what has to be done and not really be there for a while. What yoga teaches us here is, that with patience and repetition or daily routine we can grow back together with our life and find ourself again.

This week's poses are:
Utthita Trikonasana, Parivrtta Trikonasana, Utthta Parsvakonasana, Parivrtta Parsvakonasana, Virabhadrasana I, II and III, Ardha Chandrasana, Parsvottanasana, Prasarita Padottanasana I and II, Padangusthasana, Padahastasana, Uttanasana, Parighasana, Urdhva Prasarita Padasana, Paripoorna Navasana, Ardha Navasana, Salamba Sarvangasana, Halasana, Karnapidasana, Ekapada Sarvangasana, Jatara Parivartasana, Savasana;