Pigeon Pose -Kapotasana -Heinz Grill

This collection shows studies of a beautiful pidgon pose of Heinz Grill – a german spiritual teacher and yogi. In his book, I found an expressive picture of his posture as well as an interesting description of pidgon pose. He describes this pose with a contraction movement of the legs and the spine. The upper body is shaping a circle. In these drawings I wanted to make visible these expression of the yoga posture of Heinz Grill.

In my opinion, the harmonic expression of his pose is a result of a perfect balance of this two movements.

“This advanced exercise combines two great dimensions of movement. These are a horizontal, gliding direction towards the earth, and a vertical dynamic, gliding towards the sky or cosmos.”

Heinz Grill, The Soul Dimension of Yoga

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