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I posted the photo at the top of this page - of flying pigeon or eka pada galavasana - on my Instagram recently. And then had a few requests for tips on how to actually get into it.... Sorry guys- that's what I should have done first time round! Anyway, here's my five steps for working towards getting that back foot off the floor in this posture. Before you begin warm up the outside of your hips with thread the needle or pigeon prep pose, and make sure your arms will be able to support your weight by checking you've got a solid chaturanga dandasana/ low plank position (see my earlier post on chaturanga if you're unsure!). And back off if anything (especially your top knee) hurts.

In order to support the weight of the body, the tarsal and metatarsal bones are constructed into a series of arches. The familiar medial arch is one of two longitudinal arches (the other is called the lateral arch). Due to its height and the large number of small joints between its component parts, the medial arch is relatively more elastic than the other arches, gaining additional support from the tibialis posterior and peroneus longus muscles from above. The lateral arch possesses a special locking mechanism, allowing much more limited movement. In addition to the longitudinal arches, there are a series of transverse arches. At the posterior part of the metatarsals and the anterior part of the tarsus these arches are complete, but in the middle of the tarsus they present more the characters of half-domes, the concavities of which are directed inferiorly and medially, so that when the inner edges of the feet are placed together and the feet firmly rooted down, a complete tarsal dome is formed. When this action is combined with the awakening of the longitudinal arches, we create pada bandha, which is a key to stability in all standing poses (and a key source of mula bandha).

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In this exercise, the core really gets fired up. The stabilizing abdominal muscles work hard to curl and uncurl your spine and to support the long levers of your legs. The abductors of your left leg and adductors of your right leg keep your legs from dropping to the ground. This works the muscles that create the transition from side crow (parsva bakasana) to eka pada koundinyasana I.

Note: The terms pia, pada, rpa and rptta refer to four stages of creation. These four are also said to correspond to four Cakras: pia to mldhra, pada to anhata, rpa to j and rptta to sahasrra.

Pada in the Marathi language is the name of a plant identified with Hypertelis cerviana (L.) Thulin from the Molluginaceae (Carpetweed) family having the following synonyms: Mollugo cerviana, Pharnaceum cerviana, Pharnaceum glabrum. For the possible medicinal usage of pada, you can check this page for potential sources and references, although be aware that any some or none of the side-effects may not be mentioned here, wether they be harmful or beneficial to health.

7) Cause, subject, occasion, thing, matter, business, affair; (vyavahrapada hi tat) Y.2.5; 'occasion or matter of dispute, title of law, judicial proceeding'; Manusmti 8.7; (sat hi sandehapadeu vastuu) .1.22; (vchitaphalaprpte padam) Ratnval 1.6.

12) Detachment of the Vedic words from one another, separation of a Vedic text into its several constituent words; (vedai sgapadakramopaniadairgyanti ya smag) Bhgavata 12.13.1.

"Samantha Kuta Vannama", a Pali work by Rev. Vedeha in the thirteenth century confirms the increasing interest shown by the Buddhists to the cult of this Footprint. Parakramabahu II (1236 - 1271) had visited the Footprint to pay homage and granted several villages and properties for the sustenance of the sacred site. He had also erected a canopy over the sacred footprint. His minister, Devaprathiraja constructed pathways leading to the mountain and conducted great festivities in celebrating the feast of the Footprint. He also installed iron chains on iron posts to make the ascent easy. Massive iron chains affixed to stanchions of the same metal secured to the bare rock face were used by early pilgrims to ascend then almost inaccessible peak. The chains were secured to the stanchions with rivets of iron and bronze. Remains of these devices, which could be dated to a period not before the twelfth century are still evident. However, a strange Persian legend invests these chains with greater antiquity than is generally accepted by scholars. It credits Alexander the Great [fourth century B.C] ascending Sri Pada, and forging these chains. This is an achievement of which, interestingly, no contemporary record exists - and also throws a spanner into the Conqueror's generally accepted chronology. Ashreef, a Persian writer of the fifteenth century, in his poem of praise to Alexander Zaffer Namah Sekeanderi, speaks of these chains. In an episode the Conqueror and his companion Bolinus (Apollonius?) devises means whereby they may ascend the mountain of Serendib "fixing thereto chains with rings and rivets made of iron and brass, the remains of which exist even at this day, so that travelers, are enabled to climb the mountain...". Whatever the truth of this episode, it is clear beyond doubt that the Sri pada was a popular destination internationally by at least the fifteenth century. Kng Vimaladharmasuriya constructed a silver umbrella over the Footprint. King Sitawake Rajasinhe (1581-1593) had also visited the Footprint. Sri Vijaya Rajasinghe (1738-1745) had also visited the mountain. King Kirthi Sri Rajasinhe (1746-1778) during whose reign, Buddhist renaissance took place had visited the Footprint and restored to the temple properties frozen by King Sitawake Rajasinhe. Kirthi Sri Rajasinhe also donated the village, Kuttapitiya and the copper plate charter in support of this donation is still in existence.

Al Beruni has also visited this pilgrim site in the fourteenth century. The Englishman Robert Knox who was a captive of the Sinhala kings has visited the site in the seventeenth century. Commenting on the ancient artifacts on Sri Pada, the Englishman Robert Percival, who served with the British garrison in Colombo in the early nineteenth century, during his visit to the peak notes that the iron chains on the rock face of Adam's Peak have the appearance of being planted there at a very early date. English author John Still has climbed Sri-pada many times from the early 1900's and describe the peak as "one of the vastest and most reverenced cathedrals of the human race". He movingly describes the pious discipline of the humble pilgrims and the ancients in whose footsteps they climbed: "There was no policeman there, and no one in authority at all, so far as I could have learnt; but the place was holy ground, and the tolerance of the pilgrims seemed a thing that might have been studied by Western ecclesiastics with honor and amazement, perhaps even in shame" ('Jungle Tide'-1930). The pilgrimages to Sri Pada from all over the island continues even to the present day both by local and foreign visitors.

In Sanskrit, the word pada means a chapter. Samadhi Pada is, therefore, the first of four chapters in the Yoga Sutra, the one that sets you off on a path of enlightenment through the art of meditation.

Samadhi pada does so through 51 sutras that teach you the core postulates of yoga, the obstacles you need to overcome, the importance of constant practice or abhyasa, and the detachment from material experiences or vairagya. According to sage Patanjali, this is the process of becoming One.

Traditionally, eka pada adho mukha svanasana is believed to activate the muladhara (root), manipura (wisdom) and ajna (third eye) chakras. Opening the muladhara chakra provides stability and grounding, while activating the manipura chakra offers confidence and self-motivation. Stimulating the ajna chakra develops inner knowledge and imagination.

The purpose of padanamaskar is to touch the Feet and have the sparshan of the Lord. The negative pole (Mayashakthi) and the positive pole (Mahashakthi) have to meet, in order to produce a spiritual current that will flow through you.

Because that relationship between our feet and the ground below us is how the rest of our body learns how to hold us up, and move around. A lot of this has to do with maintaining healthy arches in our feet, which is why you might want to make pada bandha or the foot lock a part of your asana practice.

The way we engage our legs in pada bandha has a direct impact on the pelvic floor, which is linked to our abdominal muscles. So by activating pada bandha you might find it easier to engage mula bandha and sometimes even uddiyana bandha.

Besides providing great physical benefits, pada bandha has a much deeper impact. The grounding exercises we do while engaging this bandha let us focus on deeper parts of ourselves. We bring our awareness from our physical body (annamaya kosha) inwards to our energy body (pranamaya kosha).

Through pada bandha we learn to distribute our weight evenly and engage muscles in our lower body. This enables us to lift out of our joints and maintain an optimal alignment. As a result, our joints can work a little better with the rest of our body.

Aside from flying pigeon pose, eka pada koundinyasana 2 aka split leg arm balance was another pose that totally seemed way over my head. I could get into lizard pose, but from there I couldn't, for the life of me, figure out how to lift that front leg.

The first western reference to Sri Pada is in Ptolemy's Geography where it is called Valspada and the first specifically Christian mention of it is found in Valentinus' Pistis Sophia. In this 2nd century Gnostic work Jesus is represented as saying to the Virgin Mary that he had appointed the angel Kalapataras as guardian over the mark "impressed by the foot of Adam and placed him in charge of the books of Adam written by Enoch in Paradise". There are only occasional Christian references to the mountain in the proceeding centuries. Macro Polo did not visit Sri Lanka specifically to make a pilgrimage to Sri Pada; he was on a diplomatic mission for Kublai Khan at the time, although he was the earliest European to leave a reasonably accurate account of it. "In this island there is a very high mountain, so rocky and precipitous that the ascent to the top is impracticable, as it is said, excepting by the assistance of iron chains employed for the purpose. By means of these some persons attain the summit, where the tomb of Adam, our first parent, is reported to be found. Such is the account given by the Saracens. But the idolaters assert that it contains the body of Sogomon Barchan ( Sakyamuni Buddha), the founder of their religious system, and whom they revere as a holy personage". Some 35 years after Marco Polo, Friar Odoric of Postenau returning to Europe from China broke his journey in Sri Lanka to make a pilgrimage to the sacred mountain. While climbing up he was shown the famous Fountains of Paradise, said to have been formed by the tears of Adam and Eve. However, the good friar was not impressed. The fountains looked to him like ordinary mountain springs and although the water was crystal clear, it was full of leeches. In about 1348 another European monk, the legate of Pope Clement V1 to China, Goivanni de Marignolli, climbed Sri Pada. He wrote of it, "It is a pinnacle of surpassing height, which, on account of the clouds, could rarely be seen; but it lighted up one morning just before the sun rose, so that they beheld it like the brightest flame. It was the highest mountain on the face of the earth and some thought that Paradise existed there". Coming from his cold gloomy medieval cloister to the eternal spring of Sri Lanka, de Marignolli had no difficulty believing that Paradise was nearby but he was not one to swallow everything he was told. He estimated that Paradise was in fact 40 miles further north of the mountain. The climate of religious tolerance in Sri Lanka was also very different to what de Marignolli was used to. "The Buddhist monks on the mountain and elsewhere are very holy, though they have not the Faith... They welcomed me into their monasteries and treated me as one of their own".

However, by the late middle ages European interest in Sri Pada had nearly faded away. When Fra Mauro drew his celebrated mappa mundi in Venice in 1459 on it he included a picture of Sri Pada and its sacred footprint, not for its religious but for its geographical significance. The situation had not changed though amongst the Christians of South India. Supposedly evangelised by St Thomas in about 59 CE but more probably the descendants of Nestorian Christian merchants originally from Persia, these people had been coming and indeed continued to come to the sacred mountain for centuries. After the Portuguese conquest of Sri Lanka, Sinhalese forcibly converted to Catholicism began joining these Indians on the yearly pilgrimage. In 1803 Robert Percival was able to write, "The Roman Catholic priests, with their usual industry, have taken advantage of the current superstition to forward the propagation of their own tenets; and a chapel which has been erected on the mountain is yearly frequented by vast numbers of black Christians of the Portuguese and Malabar race". In 1684 Daniel Pathey, a German solider in the Dutch East India Company, became the first European since medieval times to climb Sri Pada and give a firsthand description of it. Since then there have been numerous other accounts of the mountain. One that deserves a mention because of the way its no-nonsense rationalism contrasts with the piety and sense of wonder of earlier accounts, is that written in 1819 by the first Englishman to make the ascent, Dr Henry Marshall. " The area of the summit of the peak is 72 feet long and 54 broad, and is enclosed by a parapet wall five feet high... in the middle of this area is a large rock of Kabooe or iron-stone upon which is the mark of Adam's left foot, called Sri Pada by the Singhalese; but it requires a great deal of help from imagination to trace it out. This sacred footprint is covered over with a small building formed of the most durable wood 12 feet long, 9 broad and 4 to the tiles with which it is surmounted. Upon the inside it is enclosed by a frame of copper fitted to its shape, and ornamented with numerous jewels set in four rows, but not of the best or most precious gems the island has been known to produce, for to me they looked very like glass. We were not, I regret to say ,provided with an 'Union Jack' but we fired three volleys, to the great astonishment of the Buddhists as a memorial to them that a British armed party had reached the summit... Sound lungs and hard feet are indispensable to the performance of such a trip, for in many places we had climbed barefoot over the iron-stone. As to palankins, they are quite out of the question. There may be some risk in ascending Adam's Peak in heavy rain but surely not in fine weather".

The third great world religion to hold Sri Pada sacred is Islam. All Muslims accept that after Adam was cast out of Paradise he left the mark of his foot on the top of a mountain. There was however a difference of opinion in ancient Islam about exactly where Paradise was. Some said it was on earth while others contended that it was in heaven. It was this second school's opinion that eventually prevailed. Paradise was in heaven and when Adam was expelled his foot first touched the earth at its loftiest point which was Sri Pada. Al Tabari in his great history of the world, asserts that the mountain was so high that "when Adam was cast upon it, his feet touched it while his head was in heaven and he heard the prayer and praise-giving of the angels". This apparently annoyed the angels and "they eventually complained to Allah in their various prayers and Allah therefore, lowered Adam (completely) down to earth". When Ibn Batuta was in Shiraz in Persia he was shown the grave of Shaikh Abu Abdullah Khafif, supposedly the first Muslin to go to Sri Pada in the year 929 CE. "Previously the infidels (Buddhists) prevented the Muslims from visiting it, vexed them, and neither dinned with them nor had any dealings with them." However, the Shaikh, who had lived in Chilaw for some years and had gained a reputation amongst the Sinhalese for holiness was finally allowed to join a group of pilgrims going to the mountain. At one point in the journey the party found itself in a jungle wilderness without any food. To save themselves they killed a baby elephant and eat it, though the Shaikhs advised against this and refused to partake of the meat. That night as the party slept a herd of elephants appeared, sniffed each person and crushed to death all those on whom they smelt the flesh of their kin. The chief elephant then put the Shaikh on his back and took him to the nearest village. "From that time the infidels began to honour the Muslims and up to this day they revere the Shaikh and call him the Great Shaikh". However, despite what Ibn Batuta was told the evidence shows that Muslims were making the pilgrimage to Sri Pada before the time of Abu Abdullah Khafif . Sulaiman, an Arab trader is known to have gone to Sri Pada in 850 and Al Qazwini who died in 1282 quotes a hadith of the Prophet which says, "The best spot where the camel knelt down is Mecca, thereafter this mosque of mine (i.e. Medina) and Al Aqsa Mosque (in Jerusalem) and the island of Sarandib where our father Adam had descended". If this hadith is authentic it would show that Muslim reverence of Sri Pada began with the Prophet Mohammed himself. Since Iran's Islamic Revolution in 1979 Sri Lanka's Muslims have become more orthodox and more determined to stand apart from their fellow countrymen and consequently few now visit Sri Pada. But old traditions die hard. Recently an acquaintance of mine while half way up the mountain, encountered two men in distinct Middle Eastern attire. He talked with them and was told that they were both from Oman and while on business in Colombo had decided to go to Sri Pada. One of the Omanis also said that his grandfather had made the pilgrimage in the 1930's. 17dc91bb1f