An article the other day gave me a nice opening in regards to asanas. Just like we're always looking for connections within texts in English classes, and between martial arts and techniques at the dojo, there are connections between various yoga poses. I'd had some inklings before, mostly in regard to what poses would help the development of other poses, but nothing so explicit as what this article pointed out. That is, take downward dog - on one's hands and feet, the body is held at a ninety degree angle, basically making an upsidedown "V" with the center of the body at the apex. In staff pose, one sits upright with their legs straight out in front of them...but in that regard the body is in the exact same position as downward dog, same ninety degree angle, just sitting down instead of balancing. Then there is a basic legs-up-the-wall pose just for relaxing - same thing as the previous two, but with the butt against the wall and the legs going straight up. So each has the body in the same position, but the dog pose really focuses on the back and calves, staff pose is a lighter stretch of the back and the hamstrings, and the last isn't so much a stretch as purely for relaxation. Anybody got anymore? I'm certainly going to be on the lookout now.

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-I love Nike commercials; now we just need to throw that gal in a capoeira roda

-Prometheus Spawning Grounds - some fun retro game art among other images