Marichy D is the fourth and the last of the Marichy poses in the primary series of ashtanga yoga. Perhaps the pose represents wisdom. Marichy is Sanskrit and translates to ray of light. In Hindu legend, Marichy is a sage and one of the seven deities of creation or the seven seers who can divine the laws of the universe. (do not execute without learning first from a certified ashtanga yoga teacher).
Lotus your left leg and nestle the left foot atop the right pelvic bone, left knee resting on the ground. Fold or bend up your RIGHT leg in a way that “sandwiches” your lotused left foot on your right pelvic bone. Rotate your core or twist your core clockwise, that is: rotate your core or twist your core to your RIGHT SIDE, twist up to 3 o’clock or up to 4 o’clock or 5 o’clock (your front is 12 o’clock or zero degrees)… that is: twist to a 90-degree angle or up to 145 degrees if you can manage. The deeper the twist, the better the pose – this is the decisive movement, the twist: it determines the quality of the execution. After you’ve made the decisive move, never look back as it will undo what you’ve worked for; at this angle, you should now be looking at a new direction. Then make your LEFT hand (your LEFT, not your right) reach out where you came from, without looking back, using your LEFThand, reach out to where you came from with the LEFThand. In other words, wind your LEFT arm around your RIGHTleg or around your RIGHT knee. That is : LEFT arm around RIGHT leg. While you’re doing that, your LEFT hand should reach out up to your 12 o’clock and rest on your front core. Then, your other hand, your RIGHT hand, should reach out clockwise, back around up to your 12 o’clock until you can touch your left hand. Then, bind. Breathe long and deep. (If you cannot breathe deep and long in this pose, it’s not healthy, you’re suffocating your body.) And smile. Because this means you have a healthy body mass index. (bmi is weight in pounds divided by height in inches squared multiplied by the constant 703) just an opinion, based on experience, you don’t have to believe it— but probably, one can execute Marichy D without assistonly after learning it from a certified ashtanga yoga teacher and only if one does not have too much “stuff” around the body – maybe a normal bmi of 23 and lower, regardless of practice . (big, bold assertion – sorry, but that’s the anecdote, perhaps you can verify this theory by looking at the bmi of people who are executing Marichy D without assist so you can understand the nature of the poses) : my bmi before was 25 and could not execute this without assist even with regular practice. i stopped practice because of schedules, got to a bmi of 21 by choosing what i ate, then without practising ashtanga for years, i “accidentally” executed Marichy D while at Teng’s and Jane’s skyplace watching the workmen clean the ledge and dabbling with the reflection against the sky testing seated poses to keep awake. Imagine not having walls but just sky, this was how Marichy D eased by. The bmi however will not tell you how much body fat you have clinging on you – that requires a gadget to determine but I’m keeping my body fat still, no worries.
What is the practical application of Marichy D?
It makes your backbone stronger. Happy international women’s day!
MaribuBot, my smart robot news aggregator, on her own, gathered these stories for you:
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Χ “Missing boy found decapitated, disemboweled”. abs-cbn
♠ “PH concerned over N. Korea threats, evacuation measures” Kyodo news thru abs-cbn
ς “Angels and demons of Philippine foreign policy”. commentary by Lauro Baja inVERA Files thru Yahoo Philippines
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Then MabibuBot published these eye-popping health news:
Ω “Cancer and heart disease are bigger killers, but Alzheimer’s is the most expensive malady in the U.S., costing families and society $157 billion to $215 billion a year, according to a new study that looked at this in unprecedented detail.” by “Online” thru Tempo.
Ω “The practice of yoga encourages us to free ourselves from the burden of over-identifying with the physical body. Moreover, yoga asks us to consider that we are not only solely the physical body, we are also not only the thoughts and emotions we experience on a daily basis, but a composite of the finite and the infinite, woven into the fabric of many layers of being. The yogis called these layers koshas… One of these layers is called the prana body. It’s the part of you that is innately intelligent. Prana is the force responsible for the energetic processes that precede physical processes. Let me give you an example: Every night, without you thinking or planning, you go to sleep, and something keeps your blood steadily pumping, your pH levels stable, and the breath flowing in and out. There are literally millions of chemical processes taking place all the time in your being, and all of them occur without you trying. The force responsible for this miracle is prana, an operating intelligence, like an electrical impulse (or a divine messenger!) that keeps things flowing smoothly. ” Yoga Journal. (blog admin’s note: i think physicists would call this “energy” and medical doctors would probably say neurons and synapses, and biologists would not say “miracle” but say these are body processes resulting from millions of years of evolution, etc. Anyway, it’s Friday, read on!)
Ω“Overcoming common running obstacles” “”Hormonal and neurological shifts occur in our body, which can impact how we feel about exercise and how we feel while exercising,” says exercise physiologist Julia Moffitt, Ph.D., assistant professor of physiology and pharmacology at Des Moines University. Luckily, you can outsmart these internal power struggles and reduce the temptation of hitting snooze, working through lunch, or cutting a workout short. Here’s how to clear the roadblocks in your running day.” runnersworld. com
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Ω Plus videos from Chi Running: Uphill running. (blog admin’s note:This video shows running on a ten-degree slope…that’s uphill?…
(muscle-aches from uphill running probably gives a fool the right to whine: Uphill running is like…. pushing your chest against a ton of cement… and making it inch forward. whine, whine)
