SGRV6.5: Switchgrass Review 2023 Volume 6 - Radical Body Love

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30 <strong>Switchgrass</strong> <strong>Review</strong> • Vol. 6 Lindsay-Rose Dykema Turtle Pose This morning during my yoga practice, I felt the strength and beauty of what I call a Modified Warrior 3. In (OG) Warrior 3, you balance on one leg while holding both of your arms out in front of you. I prefer the closest counterpart in the Bikram series, which is Balancing Stick Pose; your arms are still out in front of you, but you clasp your hands together with the index fingers pointing out (similar to what I like to call Charlie’s Angel Pose, because you’re making a gun with your hands, and looking hot doing it). I started practicing yoga in 2017, which also coincides with the year I went from “very dark bad place” to climbing out of said dark bad place, toward the wounded warrior I am today. I remember struggling with poses that required balancing on one leg, feeling the awkwardness of others witnessing me fall out. I low-key decided “I’m just not gonna fuck with balancing poses and focus on the poses I like to do, the ones that make me feel strong.” I’m glad one of my early yoga teachers got me out of that line of thinking pretty quick, though. What yogis do, she told me, is progressive approximation. “If you can’t do a perfect Warrior 3 today, you do your Warrior 3 today.” In other words, in practicing yoga, you have to risk toppling over in order for your body to learn to find its intuition. Over time, at a turtle’s pace, you learn what tiny little adjustments other parts of your body can make that keep you balancing one second longer. For example, one of the things I have learned over time is that incorporating Charlie’s Angel Pose into any leg-balancing pose helped me find my center of gravity. The amount of force I can generate with one centimeter of surface area of my hand is enough to tighten my core, and once stabilized, I can just chill the fuck out on that one leg. If you would have told me in 2017, “Touching the tips of your index fingers together will help you balance longer on one leg,” I would have responded with a rhetorical question: “What kind of pixie fairy dust are these yogis smoking?” My yoga teachers have been traumatized AFABs who have learned to trust their own bodies, and to hone their instincts. Traumatized people, while hypervigilant around perceived threats when they are actually safe, also sometimes struggle to see actual threats when they are in fact in danger. Zenju
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