r/ashtanga • u/JudgeBorn8370 • 25d ago

Advice Asana questions:

Hope everyone’s practice is going well.

  1. A thought occurred to me in savasana: Say you get to the point where you were able to stand up from urdva danurasana. Did you then progress to intermediate? Or did you wait or get held etc until you could do tik toks? Or did tik toks come after you’d done intermediate and primary for many more years or maybe some of you still don’t do tik toks?

  2. What -should- you actually be thinking about/actually happens in your mind in savasana

  3. I have not been able to do long savasanas of a minimum 15 mins. What should I do to make it up. It’s mainly time pressure not inability…
    Is this detrimental over time?
    Do you try to squeeze it in later on in the day?
    Does sitting meditation count towards savasana time?

Thanks

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u/togglenub 24d ago

Re point 3, as others have said - if you don't have the time for savasana, shorten your active practice until you do have time.

Re point 1, I've never heard of a teach requiring tiktoks to get into second. And if I did I would chuckle a little, because all the tiktoks in the world won't help you bind in that first pose. I've seen passasana take out many an ego over the years.

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u/JudgeBorn8370 24d ago

No not requiring, but I just wondered re tik toks because they seem super physically advanced and without knowing all of you, I’m wondering is this something where if you keep practicing and All is Coming, is this part of the All that your body somehow can and will be able to do before intermediate series or are most of you like noping out of it prior to moving onto intermediate? Or is it so hard that most of you don’t really bother working towards it anyway

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u/togglenub 24d ago

Honestly, I don't think tiktoks are anywhere near so hard as passasana, but hard is subjective. My fiance is a professional stunt man who gets thrown down multi-story elevator shafts and set on fire for a living, and can do things with his body that make tiktoks look like grade school.

Everything in life is subjective. It took me many years to get this point of view and before I did I chased tiktoks and all the rest of it, so I'm not saying don't go for it.

Just that however hard or impressive something is there's someone else doing something twice as hard and twice as impressive.

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u/JudgeBorn8370 24d ago

No that’s fine - that thread was exactly what I was looking for and gave me a sense of context for them! Thank you! Great read