There are poses that are rated beginner poses and ones that have a higher level of difficulty. Whether you are a beginner or an experienced yoga practitioner, there are poses waiting for you to master. Those poses are difficult yoga positions.
The most difficult yoga positions are ones someone else finds remarkably easy. With grace and ease the practitioner enters the "difficult" pose like an experienced diver enters the water. Mastery is associated with ease, which comes with developing control of movement. Mastery comes with hours of practice. Practice is more successful when done gently and with patience.
If you are a beginner, you may find keeping your arms straight in Cat/Cow a challenge. Your elbows bend every time you take your body into the cow position with the belly towards the floor. The movement that lowers the abdomen might come from the spine, yet at the moment your body unconsciously moves and bends the elbow.
Another area that beginners must pay attention to in Cat/Cow is the shoulders. The shoulders round as you lift the spine into the Cat portion of the pose. (Explore contracting the abdomen after you lift and see what happens.) When you reverse the movement and lower the abdomen, do the shoulders remain up by the ears? Attention must be paid to draw the shoulders away from the ears.
The act of bringing unconscious movement into conscious awareness, and at the same time move with the breath inhaling into Cat/Cow and exhaling into Cat, makes Cat/Cow a most difficult yoga position for beginners.
As an experienced yoga practitioner, I smile when someone moves with ease into Crow Pose. Especially if it is a female as we must build faith and trust in the strength of our arms. I'll share with you the first step in a journey I am taking. The first step is a change in attitude from "why" to "I'll give it a persistent try". This most difficult yoga position, Bakasana, Crow Pose, has suddenly become doable.
With gentle practice, correct technique, and persistence, the most difficult yoga position becomes possible over time and mastered.
Heather Greaves helps yoga enthusiasts learn more yoga even though their only teacher is a book. "To learn more about something, teach it." Since 2005 Heather has been training yoga teachers in a certified program. For more yoga tips visit Body Therapies Yoga Training http://www.yogatogo.com/
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