Just chatting
Childs pose
Recline over a bolster or pillows
What are your favorite poses?
I've been doing a lot of half pigeon and figure 4, lately.
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WriterAlexis What are your favorite poses?
Savasana!
Pigeon pose is fantastic... it allowed me to live a semi-normal life. It was my nemesis for the first couple of years, but it was the only thing that worked for a nerve issue I had when I was younger. So with that in mind, I would have to say Eka Pada Rajakapotasana (One-Legged King Pigeon Pose) is one of my favourites now because it shows how far a body can be pushed to overcome adversity.
Also, handstands, just because it's fun being upside down. 
I think I like the collapsed pigeon poses better than the upright ones.
I don't do any handstands, but I do shoulder stand and plough.
WriterAlexis I think I like the collapsed pigeon poses better than the upright ones.
They're much more relaxing! It can be quite taxing mentally though... Sometimes it's difficult to let go when your body is screaming at you.
WriterAlexis I don't do any handstands, but I do shoulder stand and plough.
They're great for flexion (but potentially dangerous). I find handstands really liberating. It's hard to develop the shoulder strength at first, but once you do it feels almost weightless when you get it right. I struggled for ages and then it just clicked one day.
Sin It's hard to develop the shoulder strength at first, but once you do it feels almost weightless when you get it right. I struggled for ages and then it just clicked one day.
Just searched hot to start with handstands and found a page "How to Do a Handstand" from a page named nerdfitness ( https://www.nerdfitness.com/blog/a-beginners-guide-to-handstands/ ). Would you consider this a valid approach? I'm generally a bit scared. Especially since I'd guess that relatively much body mass is in my lower body. (At least not in my shoulder muscles 
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Owl That's pretty good actually! I'm gonna use that! The wall walk would require a lot of strength though... I learnt the opposite way, by just kicking up onto the wall like the girl in the fail .gif.
I'm not too keen on the banana shape they're doing, maybe that's an acrobatic or gymnastic way of doing things. It seems like the feet are counter balancing, and consequently the spine is bending too much.
I find it feels weightless when you're arrow straight, with your vertebrae, hips and feet stacked on the same plane. You need to push away from the floor, actively extend your spine and lengthen all the way through your legs to your toes. It needs to feel like you're extending through your whole body, not collapsing.
Also, core strength is key. It's not your shoulders that do the work, it's your psoas that controls balance and micro weight adjustments. If you want to nail handstands, work your core... Lots.
¡Cielos!
It is raining so hard that I almost was scary while I was running.
The wind is blowing extremely strong.
Down trees in the path.
Winter has come and just in my free days. 
Your country needed rain quite badly, though. In the South, the reservoirs were empty.
Well, we have a huge ammount of damms. So it is logical that when we have some lack of rain, the percentage of reserve is low, but the ammount of cubical hectometres is high.
In the North we do not have problems at all, problems are in South East, it has dry weather and a lot of agriculture.
I know that the olive oil price has gone up. I was shocked when I went to the store.
Sunflower oil has rocketed its price due the Ukrainian War, so a lot of people started to buy olive oil.
Non related to production, current oil is the olive of past season so not affected for the "drought". Moreover: 2012 we had a smaller production than the spected for this season, and the prices were stable.
As you can see, everyone here has become into a expert in oil, because it is really expensive.
