Ok. True confession about this pose. I have stated before that one of my coworkers introduced me to yoga. She was talking about the different things that they do in class and she popped into
crow. I looked at her and thought, "There is no way in..." Feel free to insert whichever appropriate adjective you feel like into that space. I almost didn't go to the class because I was thinking if they did crow pose what else did they do? I have never had upper body strength and forget core muscles. Not happening. Once I got started with yoga though, I had a love/hate relationship with this pose. Without the love. I also happen to be stubborn. I was determined I was going to make this pose work. It took months for me to even get my toes off the ground. It is still a pose that I struggle with, but I am making progress.
One of the tools that helped me make progress was
this video from Kino McGregor. I really hadn't been using my core to lift myself because I was so focused on my lack of upper body strength. She really takes you step by step and once I followed her directions to engage my core, bakasana was so much easier.
I didn't realize how much progress I made with bakasana until I put two pictures side by side. The first was taken on May 9 and the second picture was taken on June 20.
Six weeks of work paid off! You can see my feet are farther off the floor and my knees are tighter into my chest. Next step is to lower my hips closer to my feet and straighten my arms. This just goes to show that you can make a lot more progress than you realize and it can happen quickly if you are working at it.
