Inversion/Armbalances: part 1

Dear Vanessa, Send me a picture of you in Dolphin, or in half headstand (feet still on the floor, but walking in as much as possible keeping the back straight, with the fore arms on the matt and I will comment. If you are ok with it, I will publish the picture with the comment so other people may learn to? Its difficult to say without seeing you. It could possible be that you need to place the fore arms on a folded blanket because the length of the upper arms is not sufficient.. If you make the shape over your head, clasping your hands behind the head pushing your forearms up over your head, are your fore arms reaching beyond your head? Warm regards, Esther

Hi Melissa. My fault, part 2 was forgotten somehow :-) However a series about inversions/handstand is coming up in May from me, you will learn lots from that, and I will promise to get part 2 sorted as well ! Esther

Great class, thank you Esther xx

Has anybody found part 2?

Is Part 2 available yet? I would love to continue this series.

Thank you Esther!! I LOVED this class! Thank you for providing instruction on how to do inversions!

As promised, I feel great;)) I have generally trouble with the forearm balance, though. When kicking up, I have this vision of falling on my face...so my body then does everything to not come into the pose. Would it help, to actually let myself fall gently, to overcome my fear? Or is there any other trick? Your advise would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance, Moni

Looking forward in doing this session tomorrow morning. :)

Thank you Esther I usually love your classes but I experienced this one as being way too fast, and it didn't help me as much as your other classes. Am not yet ready for forearm balances, would you consider posting a tutorial like the excellent one you did for handstand? This class encouraged me to work on my dolphin though! Thank you

I am hesitant to try handstand on my own but like Kaja, played with dolphin. I enjoyed this class. Namaste.

Dear Esther, this is a very nice class to work on, thanks a lot! Namaste

Well that was another great serving in the 21-mornings-of-yoga. I nearly went for the L1 option, but thought I'd push myself a bit instead. I am so glad that I did - I managed the headstand, but didn't have the courage to try the handstand by myself so early in the morning - I could see myself thumping about and crashing to the floor I so made up a probably corrupt version of dolphin pose instead. I think I will ask my teacher to help me get up into handstands as I haven't done one since primary school but there is probably no reason why I shouldn't try it again now.

Esther - I'm about to give this class a go. Can you tell me why I have plenty of strength in crow pose and other arm balances, and I can do headstand easily with my palms on the mat, I can enter headstand with straight legs pressing up, but I have a lot of trouble with forearm balances, I cannot lift into or hold headstand at all with forearms on the mat. I defiantly have a mental blockage but I just feel very physically weak in any forearm balance, Thanks Vanessa :)

Hi ester, great class (as always). During the forearm inversion the front of my shoulders near the collar bone really hurt. What am doing incorrectly please?

Namasté

Oh boy, I am fearful of the full hand stand, I can't even land on the wall most of the jumps. But, I am working on the headstand. What is the diff between the one with forearms extended and forearms folded to make a bracket for your head?

This was my favorite one so far, thank you :)