Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga

 This week we had two yoga sessions but I could only attend one because I was feeling under the weather on Tuesday. On Thursday the practice was Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga who was instructed by Andrew Eppler. Andrew began to show us a video on Ashtanga yoga. A crazy pose in the video was a man standing on top of a kids stomach that was in a backwards bent position. Andrew mentioned how who is this crazy guy that's stepping on this kid and it going to break his ribcage. But next thing you know the kid was perfectly fine nothing happened to him no pain and no bruises. He introduced the kid as now an older adult in his video conference. 

Andrew was calling out the poses while he had someone else perform the poses. I knew from the beginning that this yoga is advanced and I had previewed some of the poses and I didn't have many expectations for myself. I also felt like Andrew was moving at a fast pace and I just had a tough time keeping up. I still attempted the best I could on some poses and I liked how he mentioned if you can't reach your toes you can try to reach for your knees or your shin. I thought and felt like this yoga was very difficult and flexibility comes in a major play in this yoga. After some of the poses, I was just unable to do them anymore so I just sat down and observed. A pose that I was fond of was where one leg is keeping the balance and the other leg goes up and your arm is extended and grabbing your feet stretched out. 

Overall this practice was difficult but it was interesting. I'm glad I got a chance to see a challenging yoga live. 

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