Urdhva dhanurasana, August 2022
I don’t know when I dropped back the last time. I stretch the hip flexors, the shoulders, the upper body. I hold urdhva dhanurasana for 1 minute. I drop against a wall. I do a lot of additional exercises to improve back bending in general. Yet I avoided to drop back. I felt too stiff and I didn’t care so much.
Nevertheless soon I’ll drop back again. I feel ready again. It’s always a test of courage. Important is to stretch the arms against the floor as soon as the falling backwards begins.
Today was my second practice of this week. Yesterday was lousy. Today was fantastic. That’s how it is. A flexible practice doesn’t mean that the next practices will be even more flexible. This projection will get disappointed.
A stiff and weak practice doesn’t mean that a setback is experienced.
There are ups and downs like in life. The importance is not the quality of a practice, rather that it’s done and the energy and concentration that one was able to put into the practice.