Today I received more than the usual set of adjustments from the Diver. He may deliberately done this so that it would reinforce the points he covered in his workshop last week. Indeed, it was very helpful to understand how and why he does what he does. Sometimes, there are as many as five points of contact. One of the things i love about his approach is that he talked about guiding or leading students through contact so that they can understand why they're being adjusted, as opposed to just being shaped into the way a pose should look.
He even showed a couple of "intimate" adjustments that he does only to students he knows really well and would not be freaked out that they didn't even have "dinner and a movie" beforehand. He's certainly not a lech, but as a yoga instructor sometimes you do what you have to do.
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Some final pics of the african safari: the movie set for "I Dreamed of Africa", the range rover we drove around in (minus the machete that's usually on the grille), and a shot of a kudo with horns (not as cute as the nyala, but equally yummy).
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It's interesting that you don't have any photos of dead safari animals. If Laksmi had gone on this safari, she'd probably have accumulated lots of photographs of dead things and random skeletons.
Welcome home.
Hi Armani
nice skies. your way of writing is so funny. if a teacher is your regular teacher, then both understand that one is being helped to move forward. traveling master teachers like LM will say that the first touch he usually accompanies with a question, such as, "how are you doing" and with the same compassion as a parent has for a child. The next touch can be the adjustments. accordingly, it's sensitive of the Diver to break down the adjustments in a similar fashion. if you can ever take a workshop with manju, he's an amazing adjuster. he doesn't miss a beat, going from person to person and regardless of what asana you're working on at the moment, he might have something great to add to it.
cheers,
arturo
carl: thanks. i have a pic of a run-over snake, but it's not very photogenic. I was looking for shots of the leopard eating a cute little nyala, but no luck. some might even deem such a pic pornographic.
arturo: you have a much more thoughtful and articulate way of describing what I should have written in my blog. manju sounds great. i did take a workshop from LM, but i only remember some bits and pieces.
i didn't have the patience to describe what the diver says. i don't know how you guys can spin out such beautiful entries! i'm tryin to blog more regularly and being the perfectionist that i am, it's hard to do a write-and-run job, which is what I do most of the time. Yes, the diver has a little patter for the "first dates," but for the regulars he skips the "dinner and a movie" part, except if he suspects you're feeling tweaky or if he's going to do something particularly intense.
oh, i've had those adjustments. :). What are they?
Hm, shoulderstand adjustment when gets in between your legs and pulls you up.
another one he showed was for urdhva danurasana, where someone said it looked like he was reaching in to help deliver a baby. basically, he used one hand to gently extend the sacrum. he's never done that one to me before.
the one that always embarrasses me, but i don't anyone else thinks twice about it is bhekasana when he sits on your shins and pulls your forearms back.
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