I watched an online video on the Sun Salutation on the http://www.jogajournal.com/ site (http://www.yogajournal.com/video/learnposes/?bctid=1483914421 by Natasha Rizopoulos) the other day, and it showed ma a bit about how to do the transitions from pose to pose. I've read that the sun salutation should be done in such a way that the transitions themselves become part of the pose. I didn't quite understand that, and have been studying online videos of people doing it.
In the Natasha Rizopoulos video, I can see a couple of things which are interesting:
- She spends a quiet moment initially in mountain pose before beginning the routine.
- She brings her arms around when going from upright to down, and from down back to upright
- When she moves to and from the lunges, she hovers her leg in the air before actually placing it in the new position
- She begins her Downward Facing Dog on her toes (thereby keeping them in the exact same position as they are in the post just preceding) for a brief moment before lowering her heels into the full Downward Facing Dog
I've been attempting to mimic her style, and I'm feeling a lot more of the graceful flow that I think I should be feeling.
Yesterday when walking to my car after work I thought about what I wrote about curving my upper back when walking or standing, and that's not exactly correct. I don't actually curve it. I think the right term may be that I reposition it.
The finding of one's perfect posture seems to be such a complicated and introspective task. I'm constantly studying different holistic methods of posture and coming up with revelations. Hopefully with each new revelation, I edge closer to something that will hopefully become my perfect posture.
