April's Laghu Vajrassana

I asked Waylon to promote my latest post at Elephant and he protected me from myself: "It's April's fool" he said. It is indeed.

This beautiful kapo drawing if from
Arturo, who writes at
http://cronyogitect.blogspot.com/

On this day last year I joked that I had gotten 9 new poses. Some people believed although hesitantly, that I grabbed the ankles from the air as I descended into kapotasana for the first time. Guess I am not cut out for comedy.  I had to refute it the next day with a post that said "I was going back to my primary series corner"

But the joke is on me.  Two days ago I got Laghu Vajrassana, the eighth new pose I blogged about last year.  So it has taken me a year for the joke to become a sort of reality (my next pose will be kapotasana).

John approached me yesterday and said he would "watch me" drop back.  Aww! panic!  He then said something that started with: "when you have a mental block", am I really THAT transparent?

He went on to suggest that I can "do a lot more than I think I can", which I know is so true! to conclude that I should: "work on hanging in there longer instead of looking for the drop, so that I train the legs to be active all the way to the end. The dropping part is just the last bit".  Pure wisdom.

At least Laghu Vajrassana is here! and coming along.

So, I am going to approach this new quarter with the open-heartness of the "Fool" (left), opening the chest to the realm of all possibilities and believing those wise words from John that you can believe too:

You can do a lot more than you think.