Ashtanga yoga: If you are tired/ not in the mood for your practice what do you do?

If you are tired/ not in the mood for your practice what do you do?

Posted: 29 Jan 2021 04:17 AM PST

Hello, ashtangis! I'm a baby practitioner and noticed that I struggle with practicing on the same time each day due to tiredness and mood-swings.

I understand that a big part of yoga has to do with self-observation through those emotional ups and downs but keeping it consistent isn't always easy. Am I missing the benefits of ashtanga if I modify my practice/ skip a day?

How do you deal with that? Thank you!

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Iyengar's Asana Ranking

Posted: 28 Jan 2021 05:15 PM PST

Hi Ashtangis,

I was reading Light On Yoga by B.K.S. Iyengar and I noticed that he had a difficulty rating for each posture. He gave each posture a difficulty rating between 1 and 60, where 1 is the easiest, and 60 is the hardest.

I thought it would be cool to map out each of the first three ashtanga series and see what the average difficulty and peak postures were for each series. I wasn't able to find all of the postures in his book, but I averaged what I found. (All of the postures that I didn't find were excluded.)

Findings

Series	Average Difficulty (1-60)	Peak Posture(s) with Rating
1st or Primary	7	Kurmasana (14); Supta Kurmasana (14); Setu Bandasana (14)
2nd or Intermediate	10	Dwi Pada Sirsasana (24)
3rd or Advanced A	26	Viparita Salabhasana (58); Natarajasana (58)

Some things that I found interesting:

Iyengar ranked laghu vajrasana (23) higher than kapotasana (21);
The difference in average difficulty ranking between 1st and 2nd is much smaller than I would have thought. (This might be due to me excluding Tittibhasana B-D because I couldn't find them in his book.);
3rd series's average difficulty rating is much higher than 2nd series's (26 > 10).

Let me know what you guys think! I posted pictures of the graphs too.

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