Thoughts & Actions | Finding the Warrior

After an uplifting time at Hanging Rock the day before, yesterday I started experiencing an increasing pain in my ankle and sheen, probably a tendinitis, almost incapacitating in terms of physical exercise and walking. I tried not to let it interfere with the positive energy experienced a day earlier, and tried to modify my hatha yoga practice to asanas which would not put any strain on my mysteriously injured leg. While I practice sirsasana (headstand) three times a day with tendinitis this inversion requires a lot of modifications; on the counterside I always found extremely challenging bakāsana (crane pose, known as crow); but with my injury this pose was one of the few which would could be practiced without a major physical stress.
Once again hatha yoga taught me a lesson: life is often about modification and compensation. Both can bring positive experience as long as we are able to find the warrior inside.

My present challenge is a big one: weight loss. Since when I moved to Australia I am eating a lot of comfort food, which has become a sort of addiction (especially for dessert and meats). So far I have not been successful in cutting down the unnecessary food; hopefully moving to a new place, it will make me return to the pesco ovo vegetarian diet I had when living in NYC.

camminando | Finally, Toward Spring

As my relocation to Australia seems to follow the season metaphor, today I can finally say that I felt the arrival of spring. A sunny warm day at the Geelong Waterfront welcomed the opportunity of a short run and a few yoga asanas on the Western Beach pier. I felt my energy start returning after a long dark winter. I even enjoyed the visual encounter with a jellyfish. And I can't wait to finally test the water in the shark enclosed area of Eastern Beach. Hopefully my research will witness the arrival of spring as well!

Vitruvian Yoga | Headstand

The "Vitruvian Man" by Leonardo da Vinci is a well know example of human proportions visualized as artwork. I started using the rigorous geometric definition of the human body used by Leonardo da Vinci, as well as other classical references, to explore different ways to inscribe human movements in dynamic geometric forms. I find most fascinating how a Western culture stereotype of proportions could be integrated with an Eastern practice.

Related work at:
http://www.sky-spirals.org/mindbody/headstandvideo.htm
http://www.sky-spirals.org/mindbody/yoga.htm
http://youtu.be/B6_hlh-3-kM

Video at http://youtu.be/dC62CtLgjSo