Head stand

This morning I asked my yoga instructor to help me with hand stand. She misheard me and showed me head stand.

I hadn't realized there WAS a head stand. I've always done more hand stands (in gymnastics, in random play) but prefer head stands. More stability, more certainty when you are going to need to come back down. And I can find more stamina there. I feel like if I could figure out how to make my eyes feel like they're not drowning, I could head stand for a long time.

Yvonne got really excited about my head stand. She could tell that I felt much better about it than any of the other inversions we'd done, and that I understood it. Evidently my form there was much better than anything else I've done in the class so far. She came up to me later and told me that head stand was my way "in" to the inversions, and maybe to other poses too.

"You don't learn yoga poses in sequence. Everyone learns them at their own pace and finds their own way."