CLUBASANA

Laghu Vajrasana registers as 23* on BKS Iyengar’s 60* scale of difficulty. Ah, if this is 23, I am SO far behind in my practice!!

Laghu means “little, small, easy as well as lovely, handsome, beautiful” and vajra means thunderbolt.

This week clubasana worked on kapotasana, and dreamt of laghu vajrasana, as well as lower backs that didn’t kink up! (yes yes, lift the hips, easier said than done!)

Sequence after the jump

This all took 2.5 hours, no jokes!

chest block

 sacrum block

 uttanasana (block chest opener)

 AMS hands into the wall

 AMV

Pincha

Sirsasana, virasana, parsva vira (5 min, short hold)

Chair dwi padas & mat roll variation (lifting the hips)

chest opener with chair & strap

Backbends over chair: upper chest, lumbar & sacrum

Urdhva with hands on chair, walk feet in

Urdhvas no blocks x3

Dwi pada, blocks, do a few open chest, work on raising up hips, and do one trying to work toward straight legs

ustrasanas against wall x3

ustrasanas with partner bondage style 

ustrasanas/kapo prep using chair

kapo prep using wall (john style, start in with backbend, walk fingers down wall, get to floor, push up like a backbend, try to catch feet)

full kapo (or work as much as you are able)

supported halasana

namaste!