Hiiiii! Boat pose is one of the struggles in class if you have a sharp tailbone. Ideally you'll want the spine lengthened, the inner thighs engaged, the core and hip flexors fired up. ⠀
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Weakness in some of these areas, or tightness in hamstrings (for straight leg version) can cause the weight to roll towards the tailbone. For some students it's a structural issue.⠀
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Give these modifications a try! For the block option ideally 2 blocks, or maybe more depending on butt size hahaha⠀
➡️ Swipe left for ways to modify high boat to low boat transition⠀
➡️ Swipe again for more challenging versions⠀
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Ultimately if nothing works when everyone else is doing boat pose, you've got your favourite lolasana, L-sits, forearm planks that all target the core as well along with some other muscles! Always modify your practice to be pain free.⠀
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lolasana pose 在 Victor Chau Yoga Facebook 的最讚貼文
Can come down. But can't come up yet. Yoga challenge for me!
Karandavasana is a hard "core" posture in the Ashtanga Intermediate Series. It is so hard it could easily have been put in the Advanced Series. When I started practicing it was said that there was only one woman in the world - Karen Haberman, who could come back up. Now I know of dozens of women who can do it. It's not just a girl/guy thing though. It's a size of the pelvis thing. And I know some girls with small pelvis' and some guys with big pelvis'. My feeling is that this posture is a culmination of all the foundational work done in the Primary Series and the Intermediate postures before it. If the groundwork had been done - i.e if attention has been paid to every jump back and jump through, so that the Lolasana position is solid, and if Bakasana and of course Pinchamayurasana is solid as a rock, then Karandavasana is achievable. In theory it is a posture that uses both the primary patterns of inhaling and exhaling movements. That means that the inhaling pattern tilts the pelvis forward and activates the spinal extensors, and the exhaling pattern tilts the pelvis backwards and activates the abdominals. In theory it's just your cat/cow pose. But as Yogi Berra said, "in theory practice and theory same - in practice they are not."
So if I was going to give technical advice then this would be it. First of all get your forearm balance steady, then get your Lotus tight as possible - a loose Lotus makes it very difficult to compress and flex the lumbar spine. Exhaling come down and the shoulders shift forward over the wrists, but keep pulling them towards the hips. When it's time to come up do the angry cat movement - lift up high between the shoulder blades, this will lift the centre of gravity up, then think of the cow pose or happy cat as I like to call it, and use your spinal extensors to lift the hips up off the arms. At this point shift the shoulders back over the elbows and you're home and hosed. Almost. The movement is not finished until you get back to Pincha Mayurasana and hold it steady again.
Sometimes on the other hand, it doesn't need to be pretty, it just needs some brute strength.