Arthur Boorman's Remarkable Feat

Arthur Boorman was a disabled veteran, who was told by doctors that he would never be able to walk without aid again.  He started to do yoga and proved the naysayers wrong.

He also lost 140 lbs in only 10 months.

Briohny Smyth's Amazing Practice

With instructions:

Handstand Padmasana to Scorpion, forearms to chatarunga

Namaste, Muthafuckas!

Yoga Is for Everyone!

I don't know where this notion came from but my friend, Conor, let me know that there's a stereotype out there that only women or gay men will do yoga. Well, here's a short article that explains why that isn't/shouldn't be the case.

5 Reasons Why Dudes Should Practice Yoga

Handstand

So I can do a headstand pretty readily but I'm having trouble with handstands. I can do it against a wall but without support I can't keep it up; my legs go past 90 degrees and I lose equilibrium.

These videos are giving me inspiration. The first video displays yoga practitioners doing impressive backbends and some handstands as well. The second video focuses exclusively on headstands but are captioned in Czech, Serbo-Croatian, Polish, or some other E. European language (I'm not sure).





In the meantime, I'm going to try and strengthen my shoulders and core.

My ultimate goal is to be able to to slowly and gracefully raise up my legs into a handstand — like in the second video — without kicking up into it.