We know that yoga is more than just practicing posture.
After all, asana is only one eighth of the whole exercise.
But we have all encountered a particularly challenging, frightening, confusing or just uncomfortable pose on the mat.
I even made a list of yoga poses that I feared and wanted to overcome; Whenever I encounter these poses, I either have to stop clenching my teeth, or I seriously think about how to enter the pose or keep the pose until it’s over.
Over the years, I have been fighting for “extending the triangle”, and I have always been grateful and surprised by some postures on this list.
For example, utthitatrikonasana is a pose that has been bothering me.
I feel embarrassed and ask myself, “where should I put my arm / shoulder? Why does my back hurt? How long will I stay here?” The triangle has become a bane to me, but since it is a fairly common posture in many courses, I need to make peace with it in some way.
Fortunately, under the excellent guidance of some teachers (including getting clues from my body), I began to gradually eliminate some obstacles around this posture until it finally disappeared from my list.
If you find that you often have one or two actions that are difficult to complete, here are a few techniques that may also help you master them.
Yoga is not as simple as posing as you think.
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First of all, master the basic knowledge.
You can practice other simpler postures to strengthen or open the key areas emphasized in the pose you want to challenge.
For example, if you want to practice Salamba Sirsasana, you can develop strength and deeper body awareness through balance and standing posture.
You can also prepare postures such as forearm board and makarasana until your arms become stronger and more comfortable.
Please feel free to ask your teacher for some ideas about preparation posture, which may help you provide more information.
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Be patient and brave.
When you encounter the pose you are currently practicing on the mat, although it is easy to give up, please try not to avoid and enter the rest pose immediately unless you really need to rest.
On the contrary, our goal is to listen to the teacher’s guidance on each posture and try to learn more skills about decomposition movements.
You can also try more basic postural changes until you are ready to try the full pose.
Take the same handstand as an example.
You can walk from the forearm board to the dolphin position, and then walk back to practice the similar movements and strength required by the shoulders, core and legs in the handstand.
Your teacher will also advise on these beneficial changes.
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Dedicate yourself, but don’t indulge.
When you are committed to removing obstacles, an individual will become more familiar and accessible; However, there is no harm in remembering that yoga is not just a asana.
More importantly, when you face challenges, whether it’s a posture, a work project or a family problem, your journey and the skills you learn.
Try to cultivate a balance between commitment and persistence so that it doesn’t become a tiring journey.
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Get some perspective and try others, which will help to inform your ability range, create an opportunity to participate in other activities, and free your brain and body from a project.
It can also provide some much-needed distance and freedom, so that when you return to the mat to prepare for the last generation, you can approach it with new insight and more insightful body.
Prepare for some asanas so that the problem can be solved! These suggestions don’t necessarily guarantee that you will become very successful immediately and shape the posture of all your challenges.
But you will find that when you take the time to cultivate the dedication of practice, you will actually know more about yourself.
I hope the above suggestions can help you.
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