Progress!!!!

I haven't been doing Bikram yoga for quite some time... and honestly, I'm ok with it. I'm enjoying hot flow and vinyasa sooo much!

I'm so happy to share what I found myself capable of doing now:

Tripod Headstand

and

Headstand

Ok, I've always been able to do the headstand but the I've to be against a wall. Not because I can't lift myself up, but because I've always been eternally scared to fall. And tonight, I just did it. No thinking. No wall. I just did it. Baaaam! Done! I was amazed at myself!

And the tripod headstand? Well Ryan just taught me that tonight actually... but really, he was right when he said that the tripod headstand is a lot easier than the ordinary headstand.

I was just so surprised at how easily my body lifted. Then again, I was able to do the tripod headstand because I FINALLY am capable of doing this:

 Crow

So just imagine this for me: From crow pose, I put my head on the floor and go into tripod headstand. Baaaam! Nailed it! Although tonight when I finally did it, I kinda felt I was gonna fall off and surprisingly, I instinctively moved both hands closer to my head...so essentially for that half a second I was just balancing on my head (well, not really, I was primarily using my core).

waaaaaaah!!! I'm so happy!!! I've been trying to do these in advanced class before and couldn't do it even if my life depended on it. Now I can do it effortlessly! Geeez!!! Thank you Plana forma for the stronger upperbody I guess! =D



Oooh! The other night I did bikram yoga (after a long time!) and surprises of all surprises.. after doing  locust, Ryan told me "you're ready for scorpion" .... What's scorpion pose exactly?

Scorpion

It's my current dream pose! Actually it's been my dream pose since last year but I have admittedly lagged on practicing it. So imagine my surprised when Ryan said that! Really? I'm ready? Well he said it's because on  locust, my legs are already around 60 degrees up. Just to give you an idea, this is locust: 

So just imagine that guy's leg held up higher to 60 degrees. I wouldn't have any idea how high my legs were going because as you can see, in that pose, we don't look up. Ryan just said it's pretty high already...which means my back has become a lot stronger than it was before.

Having nailed the headstands, the locust, I just know, I'm THIS close to being able to do my dream pose! BOOOOM!!!!


I love it! I love how my body has become more flexible and stronger! Woohoo! Yey me!!!! =D



Namaste.