Ahhh "standing forehead to knee". Such a love-hate relationship with this posture. Mostly hate. It has progressed immensely from when I first started practicing it years ago, but further trying to refine it and have always had some lingering questions.
1 - The standing leg is fine and locked. The whole "flexing the foot back" part of the kicking leg is what I'm trying to refine now. You're technically supposed to "flex the foot" back of the kicking leg during the 2nd part of this 4-part posture, and that's right before you bring your elbows down past your knee. When flexing the foot back however, I lose the "kick" and pressure against my hands which helps my overall balance. Thus, attempting the 3rd and 4th parts where it's "forehead to knee" becomes much harder. It seems easier to me to not flex the foot back until I'm at the 4th part where forehead is already to the knee. In this 4th, stage I can even let go of my kicking leg for a couple of seconds and have my core mainly hold up this leg (quad is cramped like crazy though). Anyone have any tips on maintaining the flexing of the foot back from earlier on in the posture back at the 2nd stage?
2 - Bringing my elbows past my knee in the kicking leg I find difficult as well. What muscles in the posterior chain would physically limit this? I want to see if I can do some targeted stretches/postures that would make this easier. I'm guessing it's the same reason Paschimotthanasana/Stretching is one of my weakest postures. It's hard for me to really sandwich my body on my legs leading with my chest like I should, maintaining a flat vs. rounded back.
Appreciate any insight, thanks!
Experienced shroomer here. I probably have 50 or 60 trips under my belt. I used mushrooms to kick the booze a couple years ago, and have since been using them as a meditation guide. Shrooms have contorted my body into certain mudras and asanas that I had never been taught prior. These last few trips I have been doing yoga, meditation, breath-work, etc., and it has been really wonderful and healing. However, this last time I gave Tai-Chi a go. I'm new to Tai-Chi and do not have a teacher so I have only been practicing the first 4 stances over and over again these last two weeks. Boy, let me tell ya... I have never felt anything like this. I thought i had seen it all, but once again I was proven to be just as much of a baby as I have ever been. The Chi started in my navel and exploded throughout my arms and legs and up my spine. The whole room began breathing with me (more than usual). Such clarity. Such balance. I continued to stand in Horse Stance and had the most enlightening trip yet.
Anyway, just sharing. Tai-Chi is awesome. That's all.
I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.
Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.
So I just started doing yoga consistently this week and I love it. I'm just wondering for people who do yoga without an instructor or tutorial. How do you get to the point where you just remember them.
Just want to share with You something that might be obvious for some but it was an amazing thing for me.
I discovered I have a pelvic tilt and of course that carries on onto all aspects of life, including yoga. I have been an intermittent practitioner since I was around sixteen years old. I grew up in a home where the military way to stand was the norm (anterior pelvic tilt) and so I did for years.
The difference I feel now after adjusting my posture to a neutral spine by stacking ribs over pelvis is like night and day, even pyriformis isn't irritated anymore! And now more asanas make sense, like NOW I can actually feel my core engaging in Utkatasana and so many more.
Hope someone finds this tidbit helpful. English is not my first language, sorry for any spelling or grammar mistakes.
Disclaimer: I donβt like/trust VCs.
Was wondering where you guys stand in terms of information sharing with your investors. I personally stand on the side of βeverything that I need to disclose legally + enough to satisfy them for this weekβs meeting.β
I donβt: share my Asana, nonrequired financial report, what I tasked our employees this week, my employeesβ names and expertise, my personal life, etc
I am in the camp that believes that VCs will always expect more, so I try to do the bare minimum to satisfy them for the checkup calls. I am transparent; when there are numbers, the numbers are accurate. When things are not going as planned, I tell them. If the company was bound to go under, they would know. But I donβt like saying more than I bare-minimum have to. Is this bad practice?
Do your worst!
I'm surprised it hasn't decade.
I go to a gym for primarily Cardio exercises. Treadmill, Elliptical, Cycling etc. However, I also perform basic Asanas there. Laying on back, laying on stomach, sitting in Vajrasana and standing Asanas. Should I do these asanas before cardio or after?
For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.
I said "hey look, an escaPEA"
No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!
Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies π
It really does, I swear!
Because she wanted to see the task manager.
Update: Eli Lily CEO stated on CNBC last evening that they expect to get FDA nod in January for $ABCL made - new covid antibody that can kill Omicron and any mutations out there.
$ABCL is making for Eli Lily that Ly-Cov1404 antibody that can kill Omicron. You can watch the video on CBC twit:
https://twitter.com/CNBCClosingBell/status/1471234088816230407
Funny thing is that I was unware of this development when I was writing.
That is big news but I suggest reading forward to see $ABCL value beyond Covid.
I also shorted the personal views of life part.No time for that.
So, as this new guy arround Omicy is doing some more damage, the Covid investing theme has been revamped like an old pleasure worker, getting some charm again.
We all know the trick: get a winner that might make some nice and fa(s)t gains if it hits gold BUT in the same time to make sure that with out this particular opportunity, it has a bigger value than the one assesed by the market.
Now many things happened in 2020 also in tech, energy, etc but biotech was hot on pandemic and to elimnate the need to research some other field, I only focused on biotechs.
- So I browsed and I shuffled eliminating first the ones that are already flying high on Covid fears. Easy money are already made there. No time for that.
- Then I eliminated the stocks that had debt, like 0 ZERO debt. The rate hike is in the cards and will make refinancing or repaying that debt harder. No time for that.
- Further I eliminated (againt my feelings) all the de-spacs. That trend has its own highs and downs and is you know... keep it simple. Small caps, easy to manipulate stocks - dumped as well.
And then I started to dig deep in the pipelines of the few left on the table. Some pretty good names there, a lot to read but $ABCL Abcellera stood right there.
To be honest I owned some already (bc of Peter Thiel) but my selection was ownership blind. Just going for the target.
Very short backgroudn story - Abcellera become worldwide famous in 2020 as they were the first company on the planet to get EUA for their antibody treatment. After the IPO ABCL surged as high as 70s and now stands at $13.5. They made some nice hundres of millions until now from that antibody but got crushed when vaccines rolled out, got facny again on variant D as their antibody works great on that and it seems they have a new antibody that can kill Omi
... keep reading on reddit β‘Theyβre on standbi
BamBOO!
Heard they've been doing some shady business.
Pilot on me!!
Nothing, he was gladiator.
Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.
This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.
If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.
Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.
What did 0 say to 8 ?
" Nice Belt "
So What did 3 say to 8 ?
" Hey, you two stop making out "
When I got home, they were still there.
I won't be doing that today!
I decided three days ago to take up yoga, and so far for the past three days I've done 30 - 45 mins of Yin, holding poses for 10 - 15 breaths, or less if they're straining to me.
I've found that I'm relatively flexible in some ways (can do the malasana squat pretty fine, the dragon too, the saddle...) but reaaally not in others. For example, I'm totally unable to reach my toes when standing straight with my legs together. I can only just get my hands past my knees, and that definitely hurts, I wouldn't hold it that long. Also, if I'm sat on the ground and have to reach out to one or both outstretched legs in front of me, I can reach to my ankles but it hurts quite a bit, and my back is very curved. I would really like to work on my back straighteness when sat down with one or both legs outstretched, it's really difficult for me. I've been doing it by pressing my back against a wall to make sure it stays like that. I think it's my hamstrings, although I'm not certain.
Any ideas how long it would take to develop that back straightness / hamstring flexibility if I were to do 30 mins of yoga everyday? I want to keep up yoga because it merges several practises I want to make habits, and I can feel that it's good for my body AND my mind. My logic in asking this question is that if I know what a realistic time scale would be for me develop some of that back straightness I may be able to be more patient and less hard on myself.
Any other advice is welcome too, I'm a total newbie ! Once I can afford it I plan on going to a few classes so I'm sure I'm doing it right, as I imagine it's probably pretty easy to be doing a pose (an asana?) completely wrong and actually not getting the benefits of it.
Dear Awakened Souls,
I am a self-realized yogi and I have written an article for the awakened ones that have learned the art of extracting pleasure from their inner soul not from the objects of senses (stuck in momentary satisfaction). For the full awakening deep spiritual understanding is required only that unties the knots in your subtle body and only then the Anand may kosha loosens and the spiritual immortal liquid called "bliss" surfaces on the physical body. Happy awakening.
Source
Note: Active practitioners for the turiya state will benefit the most from this knowledge.
Energy radiated from god consciousness powers the nature and its three modes that are sattva rajas and tamas present in you and out in the universe. They are the building blocks of the physical universe. Sattva radiates light, infinite energy, blissfulness, weightlessness, stability and peace. Rajas radiates sorrow, violence, activity, instability and all movements. Tamas radiates darkness, dullness, violence, heaviness and ignorance. God consciousness and nature both of them are infinite. The difference between them is that the nature functions in perfection unconsciously like a programmed robot that does as programmed where as god consciousness is infinite energy as well as infinite bliss that cannot be harnessed without the equilibrium between the 3 modes of nature in you. You could think of god consciousness as fire and nature as heat radiated through that fire, both of them are linked but there is an immense difference between them. Fire generates heat similarly god consciousness generates nature. How external and internal nature functions is realized only upon equanimity between the 3 modes present in you. God consciousness divides existence into two, real and unreal. Real is that which is limitless or imperishable that is the god particle, purusha or individual consciousness present in you and unreal is that which is limited and perishable i.e. worldly substances, worldly knowledge, this physical universe, physical body. Taking unreal as real and real as unreal creates wrong knowledge that is what un-links internal and external nature and crea
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