This week’s class video:

Firefly / Tittibhasana

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The hardest thing abou FLYING is getting yourself off the ground.

Right?

Maybe that seems too obvious, but then it's easy to imagine "flight" or "lift," feelling light and free. If you don't break down the steps you need to get there from where you are, the goal looks magical, impossible, more of a curiosity to wonder at than something you might try.

…And that's the problem with arm balances, for people who are new to that kind of thing.

It's a foreign position, like an exotic country that might seem too far away to ever visit. Firefly is particularly difficult that way. Not only do you need the strength for a stable crow, but you've got to pry your hips open, much further than most adults would ever think to do in their day-to-day life.

I can't promise you'll bust your way into this pose after one class. BUT, I can assure you that it'll become more clear where your body's able to move easily, where it might be bound up tight, and HOW to find your way toward the strength that this position takes.

You don't have to impress anyone with how your poses might look, if someone was to take a photo. What you CAN do, though, is challenge your body in ways relieve the unconscious tension of daily life, and find new ways to play with your limitaitons, re-negotiate the terms of what you might expect that your body can do.

Build your practice and watch how you change over time!