Splat!
I was feeling ambitious last night in yoga class, and besides, headstands tend to help my headaches. I got a little cocky and tried something I’d seen others do in my more advanced classes, which is to lower the legs into a front-to-back splits position whilst upside-down, rotate to a side split, and then return to the front-to-back splits with the other leg in front, then return the legs to the original headstand position.
It almost worked.
As I was working my way up to fully vertical, I felt my back get unstable, and I started to tip over backwards. Now, I can get into a fairly extreme backbend when I want to, but I didn’t think a rapid, gravity-assisted descent was the way to go. I tried to throw my weight forward, so that I’d come out of the headstand normally, and got about halfway before my feet landed next to my left elbow with a resounding thud.
What surprised me was not that I fell, or even that I managed not to hurt myself doing it. No, the surprise was that I wasn’t at all annoyed at myself for either attempting the move in the first place or failing to complete it. My reaction was just a mental shrug, and “well, that didn’t work this time,” as I carefully manuevered myself into a nice, safe resting pose.
Maybe next time. We’ll see.
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