supine brilliance show

today, i practiced the lying down, supine sequence of asanas of VK. i'm not lying. tomorrow i will have to continue it because it's a long sequence, then follow it with inversion asanas. the following day maybe seated poses. from the supine to the seated there's but a few days. this practice makes you appreciate the brilliance of ashtanga, because you see what all the movements in ashtanga are doing, except you are practicing it in slow motion.

Grimmly's review of the five volume Iyengar DVD, where the master screams and cajoles his senior teachers reminds me of the humbling i passed through when i went to a class with an old Iyengar teacher. not much practice occured then, but a lot of discussion around a few asanas during an hour and a half.  "no, no, no, no, no! (emphasis on the fifth no)","you're doing it wrong!" "come down!; you're going to hurt yourself." "don't go that far." - things like this when i would be doing a simple baby drop back against the wall, or a simple body twist. the slowness wasn't always present. when the administrator of the program was present; then there were a LOT of asanas handed out, just for the show. Below, Guanyin sculpture in a cave.