Supported Headstand with ropes | Intermediate Iyengar Yoga

Level: Experienced You'll need: wall ropes (two long ropes on one set of rings), two blankets, a strap, two blocks, a rolled mat or towel Includes: Sirsasana hanging in a single rope, with Baddha Konasana and Upavistha Konasana legs. If you are on your cycle, don't go upside down. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ In this class we do Sirsasana with one rope, for those of you who only have space for one set of ropes. It's pretty much a tutorial: how to tie the rope, how to get in and out, and different positions for the arms and the legs. This is a single, not a sling, so you can keep your legs up together on the wall. If you have a neck injury, or you are unable to go up into Sirsasana on your own, this is a great way to be in the pose in the safety of your own home. It's a lovely feeling of hanging and allowing yourself to settle and elongate, and it's very quieting for the mind. The spine is lengthening, there's space for the flow to move to the organs, and the heart isn't having to pump so much. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ IN THIS LESSON YOU'LL LEARN TO • Tie a single rope and set the length for your height • Wrap a blanket around the hips and keep the rope low, on the sacrum • Support the tailbone so the pelvis lines up with the shoulders • Come down slowly and rest the head at the wall afterwards ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ SELF-PACED PROGRAMS 👇 New to Iyengar yoga? Start with the Foundational course: 18 classes over six weeks. ► 100-Hour Iyengar Yoga Progression https://desayogi.com/yt/100hr ► 7 Programs Bundle (all programs) https://desayogi.com/yt/all-programs ► Browse all programs https://desayogi.com/yt/shop ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CHAPTERS 0:00 Welcome 0:55 Tying the single rope 2:30 A blanket and strap around the hips 3:30 Getting into the rope 5:05 Hanging with the forearms on blankets 5:45 Support behind the tailbone 6:45 Arms straight, legs up the wall 8:20 Baddha Konasana legs 9:55 Upavistha Konasana legs 10:30 Hands interlaced behind the head 12:00 Back arch with the shins on the wall 13:00 Coming down 13:40 Facing the wall, rope at the hips 15:05 Uttanasana 16:15 Chest opening, rope at the upper back 17:20 Closing ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ QUESTIONS? Leave them in the comments below or find me on social: Website: https://desayogi.com/yt/site Instagram: www.instagram.com/desa_yogi_bali Facebook:   / desayogi   #iyengaryoga #yogawallropes #sirsasana #headstand #kathycook #desayogi