As a result of a very nasty car crash I suffered when I was 17 on Xmas Eve, and in which I very, very nearly died, my right shoulder and upper back have been frozen for years. Besides the horrible sequence of events on that night, I owe the stiffness in my right body to the fact that the young docs in this provincial French hospital were busier partying in the staff room next door than reducing my fracture and realigning the bones. That was most certainly a result of my karma, and it allowed me to come to yoga with enough challenges to understand intimately what most injured or unfit students go through in an average class.
Anyway, years of practice and trust in my teachers, Shiva and Patrick, have allowed me to enter Urdhva Dhanusarana, and to actually enjoy it. It was a long journey to work through a blocked rotator cuff, but it was most certainly worth it.
(The video is courtesy of a most lovely young lady from Brunei, who attends workshops at Pure from time to time and has a truly delicious blog called Dhanurasana)
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I found your blog searching for "the year of shiva 2008" because I had the feeling that 2008 was going to be a diferent year (a year of great prosperity).
Suddenly I started to notice that that 2008 wasn't the year I expected it would be. I lot of people that I know have died - not family or friends, but people that somehow I knew and admired, because to me they were enlightened people. At the same time I've started to hear about pregnant women that I also admire, and that got me thinking about 2008 based in what is happening with me and with people all around. It really seems like a year of transformation.
I can say I'm always a bit scheptic about things, and I'm always trying to understand things with a scientific perspective. I've found that most things we learn in diferent cultures and religions are the interpretations of what we can't explain (or at least couldn't) based on our perception of life (our bodies, minds and everything else that surrounds our consciousness). When I find something I can't explain I assume that I don't have the knowledge or sensibility to understand it yet.
The events that I witnessed this year reminded me of what I've learned about Shiva, and the concept of destruction (and transformation), and thats why I ended up in your blog. Since you were the only reference I've found about 2008 being the year of shiva I decided to give a shout out; talk about the things that were in my head for some time now, and hopefully hear more about shiva and the amazing - and sometimes scary - things that we might exepect from 2008.
I'm from Brazil, so apologize me for my english. I've been involved with yoga for about a year know, and was very pleased to have found your blog today.
Hi Eduardo, IY here. Let's most definitely keep in touch. Let me have your email through PM. Woud love to chat more.
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