astakoume
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Mar 30, 2004, 1:35 AM
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Re: Ears Plugging During Shoulder Stand
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I am answering to you not as an expert, but as someone who seems to have had a similar experience. I am also new in yoga (just one year of everyday practise by myslef). From the limited experience I have in hatha yoga of the Iyengar school, supported shoulderstand (and halasana) is a panacea for me! First months that I was doing it, I also felt a kind of a strong pressure from inside my ears. But this was a very pleasant feeling to me, because I felt it was curing the bad effects of a stiff back neck problem I used to have before yoga. So I was trying to make this feeling even stronger by pressing the weight of my body more backwards, torwards the back of the head and the neck. I was guessing that in this way I was depening the asana in the right way and that this sensation was one of it's good effects. I must have been wrong though, bacause I then read that when we are doing the shoulderstand our weight should rest mostly on the top of our shoulders and elbows and not on the back of our head/neck. So maybe if you pay attention to where you balance your weight, then there must be no such pressure in the ears.
However, I am still wondering and given the chance I am also asking any teacher who may read this. Since this sensation in the ears was pleasant (at least to me), could it at the same time be harmfull ? I anyway avoid doing it now and stick to the way the asana is originally described by those who know better.
Kristi
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