If you don’t have the strength or flexibility to straighten your legs in Nav asana, do the pose with bent legs.This is much easier and will strengthen your body in preparation for the full pose. Swinging into a handstand from Nav asana is difficult — if you can’t do it. simply press your hands into the floor, engage the bandhas deeply, and lift your hips and feet just off the floor. Then release and go back into Nav asana.This is good preparatory work for the handstand.
BHUJAPIDASANA
As with the previous pose. this one requires just as much finesse in terms of balance and control as it does muscle strength.
1From down-facing dog inhale and jump forward bringing your legs around the outsides of your arms. Cross your ankles. Now slowly draw your feet backward and your head forward until you can balance with both your feet and forehead just off the floor. Stay for five breaths.
Inhale, uncross your ankles, release your legs and go into TittibhisanG (this is a transitional pose). Exhale, jump back to Chaturanga (see page 46). Go into a vinyasa (as far as down-facing dog) and then straight into the next pose: Kurmasuna.
BHUJAPIDASANA
As with the previous pose. this one requires just as much finesse in terms of balance and control as it does muscle strength.
1From down-facing dog inhale and jump forward bringing your legs around the outsides of your arms. Cross your ankles. Now slowly draw your feet backward and your head forward until you can balance with both your feet and forehead just off the floor. Stay for five breaths.
Inhale, uncross your ankles, release your legs and go into TittibhisanG (this is a transitional pose). Exhale, jump back to Chaturanga (see page 46). Go into a vinyasa (as far as down-facing dog) and then straight into the next pose: Kurmasuna.
