Bottling the Bliss

Have you ever wanted to immortalize a feeling, a thought or a even sensation in a yoga pose?

That is how I started to feel when I began to conquer Virbhadrasana I. That need to bottle up a sensation so it never ran away again.

It was Padangushtasana II that brought the lesson home however.  That one lesson transferred itself from that pose to many others.

Here are the 'magic' instructions starting from padangushtasana I with the right leg up:

1) Take the right outer hip down, the left outer hip up
2) Direct the back of the right sit bone, around to the left arch.
3) Iron the pubic plate up toward the head, and the sacrum down towards the heel.

These instructions I found, allowed the abdomen to be soft and expansive, as the tight hip joints and weak pelvis got out of the way of the abdomen's true expansion.

This bliss could then be experienced in many other poses if the same instructions are followed:

Virabhadrasana III
Eka Pada Sarvangasana
Parsvottanasa

Thanks for letting me share with you.

Namaste.