2 Ideas: Ashtanga for a Broken Leg And for Cutting the B/S (Usefull for the Disabled)

ONE: Watch the guy on the left go through the whole primary series laying down. Yes you read that right.

Gratitude to Filipa who commented on Monday's post, she directed me to this (below), an amazing You Tube video of a man who had a fractured femur, the big bone in the front of your leg above the knee.  He practices ashtanga, and they created this "accelerated primary" video (with a few poses of intermediate) in a completely modified version to accommodate him.

I love that it is in Spanish too :-) Lindo!

Anyway, it gave me ideas since I am fully fatigued as I recover, on how to do transitions, and I loved the reversed or reclined down/up dog.  This is a thing of beauty.

If you happen to be learning/wanting to learn Ashtanga and have disabilities:  This video goes way too fast!  I know, however, it is a fantastic resource to start learning the series. I know I would use it!

Even though it is a pain to stop cause it disrupts the flow, that would only happen until you learn the first few poses of the series.  The guy does the whole thing reclined! he never stands up!, so it might help some people with disabilities in the legs, or who are simply too fatigued, or who for some reason have issues with the standing. (It is helping me with the fatigue element)

The beauty of this video is that it includes a few more backbends.  As I cannot jump back and forth in between each of the poses I was missing backbending. I suspect that is why they added those poses of the intermediate. Good thinking!

TWO:
I  am very grateful to Scott, who also commented on the Monday post on how I used yoga in every stage of my disease, he directed me to this audio cast, it is a talk with Richard Freeman (in my opinion the best yoga teacher of this country).

I consider him the best
yoga teacher the United States has

The talk is called Internal Forms

This is what I luuuuv about the talk:

1- "What do you do when you are being wheeled into the Emergency Room?,  What about when you are hanging off the dashboard of your  car, what then? what yoga then?"

Did that get you? It gets me!  yeah! how about when we are dying? when there is no chance to get into Triangle or even Standing pose? what then?!  Will you panic? or will you be able to prepare to pass into the light?

2.- His making fun of how we get all wrapped up in the mind  "Some people say yoga is a tree and some say yoga is a wheel, and then some say: oh no, your wheel is just an ornament on my tree, or your tree is just part of my wheel".  Cracks me up, I do this all the time.

3.- How it gently brings you into the real internal process of ashtanga yoga, how he explains that the drishti (focusing the eyes on a certain point) is critical at any level of the practice cause it reminds us to shut the outer vision sense, to go in. Or how the tongue touching the palate reminds us to shut up, etc.  He also talks about how the blind can use the hearing sense...

4.- How real he keeps it, and I am paraphrasing "We are simply preparing for death, corpse pose at the end of the practice gives us a hint"

5.- Then there are questions, someone asks why 6 series in Ashtanga Yoga... you gotta listen to it!

Here is the link: enjoy! http://yogaworkshop.com/images/blog_uploads/2011/05/Inner_forms_11.6.mp3 

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Tell me what resources you have found out there on people who cannot do the whole thing, or talks that address the internal parts of yoga! Tell me tell me tell me.

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