Bikram Yoga Salabhasana Locust pose

A bikram yoga demonstration of salabhasana.

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• yoga bikram
• locust pose
• hot yoga
• boise yoga

[tkherbi9a]

I'm sorry but I don't believe this took you 5 months of practice, even practicing every day .. unless you were super flexible and strong (before starting yoga) .. i'm sure it's more than 5 months no freaking way even if you do yoga 24/7

[sevenbravo]

@tkherbi9a I'm not flexible at all and yes it only took my 5 months to get to this point. I am a freak. Unfortunately I am not a good example for any other pose...I'm even bad a savasana.

[sevenbravo]

I believe that your physical build certainly plays a major part. For me, it just happened one day and caught me by complete surprise. I am not very flexible at all, and that is why I can't place my feet on my head.

[Wozamatoz]

How long and how many times a week did you practice until you could do this? Great strength.

[sevenbravo]

Thanks. This was about 5 months after my first day of doing Bikram. I was going about 3-4 times per week for the first few months. Then I attempted to go 60 days consecutive and about 40 days in is when I was able to go vertical.

[ashkosh77]

was this a contest to "get over as far as him" yoga is not a contest....

[sevenbravo]

Depends on who you talk to, Bikram thinks it is a sport.

[dikafreaka]

ummm hardest fking pose ever =____=

[WhatShouldMyNameBee]

It was 79999 views before I watched this, hopefully I was the 80000!

[tkherbi9a]

@Yobachi2007 hahahah :D

[craggydodaggy]

@craggydodaggy

To the practitioner in the video...Do you have your jaw/neck fully extended so that pressure is on the bottom of the jaw/neck, or were you positioned so that you were resting on the front of the jaw/mouth? I only ask as I hurt my jaw/ear-canal a few weeks ago in this Asana, because of possibly weight bearing too much on the jaw....

[craggydodaggy]

@tkherbi9a

I have been doing yoga for approx 4 months, once a week, and I can now do this posture the same.

Yes I've been training Kung Fu for 5 years...but still haven't training this sort of thing before. What actually helped me get vertical was the momentum of the initial commitment.

[Yobachi2007]

@sevenbravo

LOL, how are you bad at savasana, you just lay there?

[thegiantpea]

@sevenbravo I was similar, this was one of the first postures I really got good at. But of course, 1.5 years later into my practice, my muscle mass/flexibility are really fighting each other and some days I feel like I can't even leave the ground. It's all in good reconstruction though!

[cheekei]

@girlinseattle - you're meant to kiss your mat (according to the dialogue - not literally of course.)

[girlinseattle]

Isn't your/his face supposed to be more "face-down"? (ie. not looking forward)?