Learn about a pose by studying Pictures, Discover differences,similarities and comparing expressions
I draw Yoga poses and I also do yoga. First I began to draw because of personal interest. Then I discovered by studying and drawing pictures of yoga poses, I can develop a better unterstanding for a pose. There is a huge possibility in studying pictures for making progress in yoga. Looking at a professional pose of BKS Iyengar or Heinz Grill consciously makes you see the pose in a deeper way. Wheel Pose ist a very advanced pose. In this pictures of BKS Iyengar and Heinz Grill you can observe one very useful movement of lenghtening the spine. If you want learn this pose, it can easily happen, that you just try to bow down and loose stability and direction. But if you look at these two people, you can see, that wheel pose is created by lifting the chest upwards and lenghtening the spine. Especially this lenghening can be observed in the exercise of Heinz Grill. BKS Iyengar demonstrates the stability in the hips very well. This two movements, the stabil hold in the hips as well as the lenghtening of the spine backwards can create a new and deeper access to this posture.
Study of expression
Both, BKS Iyengar and Heinz Grill first lift the chest upwards. Both, BKS Iyengar as well as Heinz Grill first lift up the chest and create a wide rising bow.
This drawings shall express the lenghtening of the spine in wheel pose chakrasana. By lenghtening the spine, there is created a new space for the next movements.
BKS Iyengar arches back more, Heinz Grill lengthens
the thoracic spine.
Heinz Grill creates the dynamic of the pose a bit more out of the chest, the chest grows longer and is more
articulated. BKS Iyengar tends
to use more the lumbar
spine instead.
BKS Iyengar holds himself with the hips mainly, Heinz Grill seems to hold himself also with the chest.
In the end, in both positions the chest seems to be
open and faces forwards.
Wheel Pose by Heinz Grill on Yoga Arte:
- The question Heinz Grill asks first: What idea is created above wheel pose asana?
- The answer is: From a bigger space, like a big circle, which is felt abstractly in the mind, and which represents a kind of cosmos, there is created a circle, that becomes smaller and smaller. In the end, this circle centres like one point in different parts of the spine. By this centering in the spine, a centrifugal, expanding force is created. Centripetal concentration in one point and centrifugal lenghtening belong and work together. In the end the pose is creaed by the centering of the spine and shapes a bow. Wheel pose is created in a rising and harmonic distributed tension. Especially the thoracic spine is integrated in the shaping progress. Out of a big circle, centering and the shaping of the body comes into existance.
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