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inventing acroyoga poses!
Aug. 15th, 2018 07:16 pmYesterday evening Ellinor sent me a message suggesting that if I were going to work late today we could meet for acroyoga at 16:00 when she finished her meeting with her advisor. I am a bit behind on hours because of not working when it was hot earlier this summer, so I thought that sounded like a good idea.
She made it to my office just before 16:00, which meant that we were at the gym and changed and started warming up by 16:11. 1 hr and 18 minutes later we had to quit because the teacher for the exercise class that would start at 18:00 was setting up the the stations, and we thought it would be nice to get out of the way. So we went downstairs and lifted weights a bit before I pedaled home. All in all a good exercise day.
During acroyoga we were doing a bit of experimenting. First we started with our normal Bird to throne sequence, then wondered, where else we could go from there, and thought we would try doing the throne on her hands instead of her feet. From there we wondered if one could go to whale, and from there it seemed natural to go into bridge, and up into handstand-splits. Then we filmed the sequence. It is still a bit wobbly and rough, but it has potential.
After that we experimented a bit more. This time we went to the Sugar Cube, and wondered what one could possibly do from there (it has always been a stand-alone pose for us), and realized that one could go from there to kneeling on the other's toes in a pose that neither of us has ever seen before, but we have decided to call "Kneeling on the Peak". From there we realized that one can go back into throne on the hands (but facing the other way this time), then up to backwards bird, and back to the sugar cube. We filmed this one too, and call it the Mountain Climber series This sequence is even more wobbly (and required a re-start during the first try), but I think it has potential, too.
I really like this kneeling on the peak thing:
She made it to my office just before 16:00, which meant that we were at the gym and changed and started warming up by 16:11. 1 hr and 18 minutes later we had to quit because the teacher for the exercise class that would start at 18:00 was setting up the the stations, and we thought it would be nice to get out of the way. So we went downstairs and lifted weights a bit before I pedaled home. All in all a good exercise day.
During acroyoga we were doing a bit of experimenting. First we started with our normal Bird to throne sequence, then wondered, where else we could go from there, and thought we would try doing the throne on her hands instead of her feet. From there we wondered if one could go to whale, and from there it seemed natural to go into bridge, and up into handstand-splits. Then we filmed the sequence. It is still a bit wobbly and rough, but it has potential.
After that we experimented a bit more. This time we went to the Sugar Cube, and wondered what one could possibly do from there (it has always been a stand-alone pose for us), and realized that one could go from there to kneeling on the other's toes in a pose that neither of us has ever seen before, but we have decided to call "Kneeling on the Peak". From there we realized that one can go back into throne on the hands (but facing the other way this time), then up to backwards bird, and back to the sugar cube. We filmed this one too, and call it the Mountain Climber series This sequence is even more wobbly (and required a re-start during the first try), but I think it has potential, too.
I really like this kneeling on the peak thing: