Comments on: Featured Pose: Dandayamana-Dhanurasana (Standing Bow Pulling)

By: yogi

yogi — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 05:41:10 +0000

In balancing poses such as Standing Bow Pulling, your foundation needs to be strong, that means you should work on your standing leg strength first and of course your flexibility. Balacing also requires concentration so you should fix a focus point which works for you. In yoga this is called dristi or the direction of your gaze. Your cramp may be due to inadequate leg strength causing excessive muscle stress and/or excessive sweat causing your body to loose salt. Start by practising easier standing balancing poses such as the Eagle pose (Garudasana or Garuda-asana) and Tree pose (Vrksasana or Vriksha-asana) and build from there.

By: Nini

Nini — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 03:47:13 +0000

I sweat a lot and as such find it hard to do balancing and certain poses and i tend to slip. What’s the best way to overcome this? Also, when i do poses on one leg, usually my feet tends to cramp. What am i doing wrong?

By: yogi

yogi — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 04:08:28 +0000

Hi Keeyit, thanks for visiting. Yes this pose is commonly known as Dancer Pose. Dancer Pose does have several variations depending on how the hands are placed to hold the leg.

By: keeyit

keeyit — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 04:00:42 +0000

The post is nice.. This is also called dancing pose ?