Self Portrait Tuesday
FEET IN THE CLOUDS
After three years of practicing yoga, headstands still scare me. There's a completely different sense of balance to get used to when you're upside down. And there are so many ways to fall. (Not all painful, as I've found out. Sometimes you just collapse gently, fold into yourself and towards the ground. I wouldn't have believed it possible if I hadn't experienced it.) But every once in a while your bones align and your muscles know what they have to do without the brain having to yell it at them, and for a fraction of a second standing on your head feels as stable and as natural as standing on your feet. I've felt that, maybe, once. And it wasn't in the photograph above. I never did a headstand outdoors before this, and the ground and the air and Husband's face very close to mine as he was trying to take the picture all distracted me. But I didn't fall!
After three years of practicing yoga, headstands still scare me. There's a completely different sense of balance to get used to when you're upside down. And there are so many ways to fall. (Not all painful, as I've found out. Sometimes you just collapse gently, fold into yourself and towards the ground. I wouldn't have believed it possible if I hadn't experienced it.) But every once in a while your bones align and your muscles know what they have to do without the brain having to yell it at them, and for a fraction of a second standing on your head feels as stable and as natural as standing on your feet. I've felt that, maybe, once. And it wasn't in the photograph above. I never did a headstand outdoors before this, and the ground and the air and Husband's face very close to mine as he was trying to take the picture all distracted me. But I didn't fall!
posted by Green Whale | 8:31 PM
2 Comments:
WOW - beautiful photo. For a moment I thought you had taken the photo yourself, and that just seemed like some upper-level yoga stuff. A headstand with no hands would be impressive!
I wish I could take pictures of some people in my yoga class -- then you'd see some impressive stuff! And the true miracle is that they make very hard poses seem so effortless and graceful that I'm ready to weep with frustration and envy and the beauty of it all.
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