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Yesterday I returned from a residential hatha yoga course (“Creating Space” hosted at the Mandala Yoga Ashram). This turned out to be an excellent opportunity for me to get to know one of the teachers on the upcoming Yoga Teacher Training course. As always meeting interesting people is always a part of these trips, with some good chats on all levels, and plenty of humour.
In terms of yoga, the concept of counter pose was very interesting, I had previously understood this to be placement of a posture that balances the previous one, for example, placing a forward bend after a backward bend. What I hadn’t considered before, was placing a static posture after a dynamic one, or balancing the pingala and ida (vibrant and relaxing energies) using postures in certain ways. Not to mention what do you want out of the practice, you might want to end up in a relaxed state before bed, so working toward more gentle and calming postures towards the end of the sequence can be desirable.