{"id":860,"date":"2015-09-21T06:31:23","date_gmt":"2015-09-21T11:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meredithwwatts.com\/MWBrazilBlog\/?p=860"},"modified":"2019-07-29T16:42:32","modified_gmt":"2019-07-29T21:42:32","slug":"practicing-yoga-in-the-landing-path-sao-paulo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meredithwwatts.com\/MWBrazilBlog\/?p=860","title":{"rendered":"Practicing Yoga in the Landing Path"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"IMG_0844\" — Sunrise practice<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Practicing yoga in the city<\/em> has some special features, not the least of which is looking down from the 9th floor to the concrete patio below, or up to the Congonhas Airport flight lanes which cast a shadow on my practice balcony.
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From our apartment in Sao Paulo. This national flight is on a descent into Congonhas Airport. Flights are suspended from about 11:00 pm to 6:00 am so that this area of the city (called Moema) can sleep.\u00a0 This was taken while practicing on the balcony.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The look down is lovely, and adds a bit of extra motivation to not lean too heavily on the balcony rail.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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My studio and Brazilian yoga mat. It has a cheerful playschool feeling and tells me more or less where to put my hands.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The practice has to be modified a bit.\u00a0 Headstand and shoulder are a bit cramped and I don\u2019t quite like the feeling of being upside down so high up.\u00a0 I\u2019d like my head to be on the ground \u2014 the actual ground.<\/p>\n
But there is no trouble doing a supported Utthita Hasta Padangusthasana, most standing postures supported on the rail, and a modified Chaturanga on the rail.\u00a0 Just don\u2019t look down.<\/p>\n
It is also a bit cramped for a floor practice.\u00a0 So I have an indoor space for wide-angle poses (seated and standing) and floor twists (Jathari Parivarttanasana and variations).<\/p>\n
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Supported Utthita Hasta Padangusthasana<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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In Sao Paulo there is support for Iyengar yoga, but travel through the city is a bit daunting.\u00a0 I haven\u2019t found anyone in this area of the city that I might reach on foot, and the best-known Iyengar studio is about two hours away on foot, bus, metro, on foot again, and back.<\/p>\n
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Trikonasana precaria<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
A few years ago I found a teacher who had studied in Pune and had amalgamated some Iyengar concepts into his practice.\u00a0 It was helpful and he was a good sequencer, but the practice seemed like learning a dialect where all the pronunciations and movements were enough different to interfere with my own training.\u00a0 What is especially lacking is the sense of adaptive yoga and modifications for persons of varying condition and limitations.\u00a0 For that I especially miss my teachers at home.<\/p>\n
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But even though I miss the yoga at home, B.K.S always reminded us that yoga itself is a universal culture that we can carry with us anywhere.<\/p>\n
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