How To Do Drop Backs in Ashtanga Yoga
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- Опубликовано: 25 фев 2024
- Practicing dropbacks safely can be a challenge when you practice Ashtanga at home, but with the right approach and alignment, it’s not impossible!
In this tutorial, we’re showing you everything you need to know about DROPBACKS, the vinyasa sequence that involves coming to standing and dropping back into URDHVA DHANURASANA. This challenging backbending sequence is added to your practice once you have completed the Primary Series and you can move into Urdhva Dhanurasana with straight arms. You’ll learn how to approach this vinyasa with step-by-step guidance on how to access the correct alignment to avoid common mistakes and prevent injury, even if you don’t have anyone nearby to spot you!
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I am a home practitioner!!! Just started going to a group Ashtanga class. I've been practicing Vinyasa everyday for like 6 years and Ashtanga has been so incredibly intimidating so far. I'm also a teacher 😅
Hello from Spain! I watch your videos with my 2 years old daughter , and she is focus waiting your dogs came out :) , that make her so happy! she loves KAni and Goku! So thanks 4 of you for everything :)))))))
Thank you David and Jelena Yoga, I learn a lot from your video!! ❤❤
Thank you so much for this tutoring and sharing. I’m far from your studio but got to know you both from Instagram account years back during pandemic time. I’m not good in back bend because also feeling the back pain when I’m trying to practice this. With this tutorial details about how to work on and feet, legs, hips, cores engagement and how to avoid to get hurts, I can feel the difference. I definitely need more time and practices. Again, thank you for sharing all the valuable tips to practice. Nemaste and grateful 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
A big part of this is also mental, I know I can do it, I can get so close to the floor but there is this fear from even trying out the drop that I gotta overcome lol. Very helpful tips, your videos are always amazing and your energy is so vibrant, thank you for doing what you do and god bless you 🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍
Update: this video motivated me to actually attempt a full unsupported drop back and I succeeded! It was so surprisingly easy for and I was like “I was scared of this???!!!” then I kept doing them again and again with a big smile on my face 😇😇😇 this goes to show just how our mind can be the only barrier from doing what we want, and sometimes we have to just take a leap of faith, take a courageous step despite the fear, only to find out there is nothing to be scared of! The bottom part of the drop back felt like me catching myself when I’m falling, giving me a lesson to trust myself and trust my body. Love how yoga can teach us to much about ourselves in so many ways! Thank you David and Jelena for the motivation 🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍
I am looking from Moscow, then repeat in our Moscow shala ❤
I was terrified doing headstand and handstands for the first time. I'm sure dropback fear will go away as well with practice and intention 🙏
Great videos. Thanks for sharing your knowledge of this amazing practice. Much love and many blessings.
Just today morning I was in my yoga class and I try it, but was to afraid to drop. My teacher was supporting me, but I just couldn't do it. Hope one day I'll overcome my fear and just let go ❤😊
These tutorials are so helpful! I love all of them!
Love you guys!! Kisses from Thailand!
Much awaited ❤
Thankyou for your very valuable teachings.
Congratulations to your new studio
Your videos very useful to learn 😊
I’ve been dropping back by myself for a year now but I’m still working on coming back up without any help from my teachers 🫣
Thanks for the video. Love from buenos aires!
Gosh, Jelena, you make it look so easy and controlled! 😮 I’m in awe of your strength and flexibility. I have a lot of compensations (feet turning out into second position 🩰, bending the legs, etc.). There’s always more work and fine tuning in dropbacks (for me anyway). 🤓🙏
when jelena shows, everything looks so easy 😅 any plans on coming to İstanbul?
Watching this from malaysia🎉
Thank you from india
Hi David and Jelena. Thank you for sharing these tips. They are very helpful for my practice 🙏🏻. Can you please make a tutorial on how to practice mandalasana ( I can drop back from sirsasana A but cannot turn my body after I walk to the side) any tips will be appreciated. Thanks a lot 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Thank You!
Thanks a lot !
thank you soooooo much
Thank you! How much of the mat do you suggest we need to see before we can drop back to the floor?
I am a Bikram yoga practitioner going on about 10 years (and Vinyasa, but mostly Bikram) and I would love to advance my practice with your teachings. I am frustrated with doing Ashtanga Yoga mostly due to the fact that I cannot do the jump throughs. But your tutorials are fantastic! I would do anything to come to Toronto! Maybe when I retire (in 5 years!). Speaking of, is age 50 too old to learn this?
Absolutely not. I started ashtanga at 48. Drobacks at 49 and I dont have a bendy back. Never too late for anything. And i love David and Jelena's videos ❤
Great vidios David and Jelena! 🩷🙏🏻can you please do video about tic tocs? Thanks and hi from Czechia🇨🇿🙏🏻
thank you guys, your videos are so helpful! 😍 - I would like a tutorial on this topic: Could you show how one can do Urdhva Padmasana in Sarvangasana without using hands? I can‘t do the lotus without pulling the feet towards my body … Or is it ok to use hands? ☺️🙏💗🌸
Hi Jelena & David!
Thank you so much for this tutorial. Dropbacks are my nightmare.
To home practioners, would you recommend learning how to come up from Urdhva Dhanurasana before attempting to drop back?
Hi, I would like to know where Jelena buys her yoga clothes? I really like how she dresses in the videos thanks!
David, I was wondering, where do you get these long sleeves from? 🙏
Haha, I need to come to Toronto. After trying half dropbacks with you both in Amsterdam, I'm still at the stage working on my own where I would be a prime candidate for the police discovering me on the floor a week later. 🤣
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Watching from Ahmedabad india
i love to come to you in toronto!!
Head last, heels down.
She makes it look really easy, amai (63).
Holland the Netherlands 🧘
Yep I'll wait till I have a few peep's around ... just incase 🤪 although been practicing for a while now lol
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It would be great to see you work it with someone less flexible....