15/07/2024
Students who practice Bikram Yoga need to repeat it to themselves and reiterate it to their body and mind for emphasis and clarity that Bikram Yoga is a progressive yoga practice. What does that mean? That means it's a sequence that progressively takes your body and mind through a journey of 26 postures and 2 breathing exercises in the safest way possible. Every pose warms up the body and makes the body ready to do the next posture. The next one will make you ready and prepared for the one after. The 90 mins class takes you slowly through the postures. You cannot do Spine Twist without proper warming up the spine in 6 other directions before you twist each and every bone clockwise and anticlockwise. It wouldn't be wrong to think that all the other postures make you ready for Spine Twist. It's a very important posture. It's last and definitely not the least. The sequence is the genius of this yoga practice. That is a macro perspective on the progressive nature of the sequence.
There is a micro perspective as well and that can be understood by the image in this post. In this case we have a demonstration of Standing Head to Knee
(Sanskrit name: Dandayamana Janushirasana)
Standing on your left leg attempt to grab your right foot first.
That is part 'a'
If you lose the grip, you lose the posture. Ask me "why?" 😋.. because your upper body is not engaged in the posture anymore. You need to learn to have a nice and tight grip, don't lose the grip. Ten fingers interlocked. If you can't grab your foot, you need to spend time in practicing how to make that happen first. If you can't grab your foot, you cannot kick that leg out.
Part 'b' comes AFTER part 'a', so if you don't have 'a' you cannot go to 'b' and if you don't have 'b' you cannot go to 'c' 😊 Every step of the posture makes you ready for the next step in the posture.
Step by Step & Word by Word
the Bikram Yoga Dialogue Works 😊
