The plan:
Paper and pen to tick off every nine salutations (so as not to lose count)
Nine times salutation A then nine times B, repeat till finish
Soundtrack, first half hour mellow; Anthony, Rufus, Leonard building up to a bit of Aretha, Amy and Etta then The Cast of Glee for when the going gets tough. Finally cooling down with Gaga at the piano and a bit of Nanci Griffith.
Most important of all. Wrist supports.
I have been having a spot of bother with my wrists. I think it's down to poor technique on jump backs to chaturanga and the fact that they are really puny and aren't developing their yoga muscles as fast as the rest of me.
I spent a good deal of time scouring the internet looking for a solution. I found some gloves called WAGs (wrist assured gloves) then was disappointed as no UK supplier (these would be perfect for body weight bearing exercises on the reformer too- maybe I should supply them?)
I found some supports called tiger paws which got some great reviews on you tube but same story. No UK supplier.
Eventually I found theses beauties.
Allow me to introduce the 'Panda Paw'
These are perfect. They support the outside of the wrist preventing hyper extension and the palm is pretty much free to allow you to really extend and spread the fingers in downward dog. I wouldn't use these during a normal practice as I want to build more strength into my wrists but they are ideal if you know you are going to be spending a lot of time on your hands or perfecting your arm balances. As they are not sold in any yoga online stores I am assuming they are frowned upon and not for the pure in yoga heart.
But if you feel wrist pain is holding you back I recommend them just don't use them all the time, you still need to bear weight to make gains.
I got mine from www.gymnasticexpress.co.uk for the very reasonable price of £20.95 (all the american gloves were three times that price, before postage)
So that was me. Sorted. Everything in place for the 4:31am (dawn) alarm and my 108 sun salutations. Fail to plan, plan to fail etc.
So yesterday I thought I'll save my arm muscles for today and instead of doing yoga I'll do an hour on my rebounder (mini trampoline). I'm not sure exactly when it happened (maybe during the kicks to don't stop believing?) but something in my left sacro illiac joint went into spasm and slowly but surely throughout the day siezed up. This resulted in me not only being unable to perform the 108 salutations but unable to actually bend forward.
There are some things you can plan for and some you cant.
Anyway how long until the autumn equinox?
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