I will

Halfway  through it today and i wanted to bail out to the land of soft and weak. Hung over. But reaffirmed my commitment, shut my stupid mouth and ate it up like a pig. Walked away  learning 3 things and feeling great despite it. Come get some!!!

This was the first time I’ve been able to do galavasana! Your advice of really sticking the shin towards the armpit helped. I still am not able to extend my leg, is that more a matter of balance than strength? It seems I can start to do it but fall over.

Laura M, nice work on Galavasana! Yes the back leg can be tricky. For me, I find that if I start with just straightening the back leg and then exploring a center point of balance that I can eventually lift the leg. It’s also and awkward position to lift from, connecting the leg to the power of the glutes and low back is what does the trick. 

Daniel C, well done sir! Well done 👍 

Daniel C, oh, and what were the 3 things you learned? 

Nathan Briner ......Well, the greatest lesson learnt was to look foward to see if the next lesson is a recovery session and do that instead. Lol 

Nathan Briner that in dog, after locking the shoulders down and  in, you can still realy stretch the arms foward. .._and inner lift in one of the poses. But that in all my life, ive never been able to get more flexible. Eg, never been able to lenghten my hamstrings. But learning  to foward  fold HAS given me better mobility and performance. Such as in my golf stance. Or just reaching down to pick something  off the floor. Im beggining to suspect flexibility is a myth,at lest in the way ive traditionally  understood it. Or its more an outcome of your ability to be mobile. 

Daniel C, I would agree with you about the concept of flexibility. I will say that people can recover movement that was lost from injury protection or just a stagnant lifestyle. But there is definitely a limit and that limit is different for different people. It’s a mistake to push past that limit. At a certain point in one’s practice there comes a shift from external pose goals to an ability of inner reflection and experience of the body, its habits, its mistakes, its hidden places that all become an incredible teacher. Sounds like you are tapping into that with your dog pose experience :)