(Updated). a Gaugauin of an ashtanga yoga pose

(it kinda looks like an expressionist painting when filtered — like a Gaugauin.

There is an ashtanga yoga pose called marichyasana D: do a half-lotus, bend the other leg until your lotused foot is wedged

in your

hip bone, then your abdomen when you twist.

In my case, my rigid ankle (here’s the story of that ankle, posted here ages ago:

in my ankle 2. Long Story. Ashtanga Yoga for the Evolved. (& why Bea Alonzo slipped & fell on the catwalk)

) can’t bend that much without pain so… it goes all the way up so that it’s my heel (the hindfoot) that gets pressed into my stomach instead of the forefoot (metatarsal, i googled it), that lessens the bend to lessen the pain but it compromises the twist because the heel bone is the largest bone in your foot, it shouldn’t be wedged there because it presses against your intestines (stomach) and blocks your twist. Still, even with the compromise, my ankle still feels like it’s being splintered in this pose.

Then, put your entire arm outside your leg towards the back, that means your entire arm winds around your knee and goes to the back. Then bind your hands, or your hand and wrist, at the back. Marichy is an ancient Hindu sage, while asana, as you already know from previous posts, means pose. Hundreds of years ago, the yogins who invented this pose (or set of poses) named it after Marichy.

My marichy D is only 0.0001% mine, my only contribution is bending the leg, the half-lotus was never good; my bind, without assist, is a mile away. The rest of it, 99.9999%, is the teacher’s –

the only yoga teacher who was able to wind my arm outside my leg up to my back then bind my hands at the back, a feat (hail!), through a lot of twisting-the- student and pushing- the- shoulder- away, and who now requests anonymity out of shame for the student who always makes a whining, whimpering sound (aw-ouucsch…whine, whine), a sound akin to that made by a small furry animal being pressed in the stomach.

(photo credits embedded in the picture). Happy weekend!