Class notes 3/21/05, Beg. Ashtanga 2

Teacher TB: In Utkatasana and other poses with the arms overhead, movement should be from the back muscles and not just the sholder muscles, almost as if you have wings.
Backbend is very hard for me to do, and is something I will have to work up to. Keep the elbows and knees together, be careful with the neck.
Headstand is getting easier to do, today we learned "Dolphin Push-ups" to build strength in the arms that we need in order to do headstand. Core strength is needed. I almost got up today and was vertical for a second and collapsed and rolled onto my back. My earlier observance that headstand is engenders a lot of mental processing still holds true.