Hi, sorry for the silly question, but is half plough and half shoulderstand the same pose?
I have never heard of a pose called half plow or half shoulderstand. Can you explain it a bit better please?
half plow where you are in plow but one leg is straight up in the air, to me half shoulderstand looks like this also. Am I right or are they different?
In Germany they refer to this as half plough (Ardha Halasana) but I am not actually aware of any pose called half plough or half shoulderstand though I’ve linked to one there.
Looks like the legs simply do not come up to the vertical plane. But again I’m not familiar with it so perhaps someone along the way just created ot as a mod and named it? I have no idea. But from these two pictures I believe it’s clear that whomever IS doing them, teaching them, is doing so with two different versions for each one.
[Really? That’s bizarr. So, with one leg on the floor and the other up, if it’s not half plow what is it? One legged plow or one legged shoulderstand?
quote=InnerAthlete;5989]In Germany they refer to this as half plough (Ardha Halasana) but I am not actually aware of any pose called half plough or half shoulderstand though I’ve linked to one there.
Looks like the legs simply do not come up to the vertical plane. But again I’m not familiar with it so perhaps someone along the way just created ot as a mod and named it? I have no idea. But from these two pictures I believe it’s clear that whomever IS doing them, teaching them, is doing so with two different versions for each one.[/quote]
Jo,
I’m not aware of it being anything at all with one leg up and the other down except for someone’s version of a preparatory position. I have not seen, done, or been taught the one leg up one leg down positions you are referring to. In that case I think it’s best to ask the person teaching it in order to determine it’s origin.
I cannot think of a reason to take one leg up and leave the other down. If the student does not have the ability to lift and hold both legs then I would have them at the wall. Otherwise it places great strain on the iliopsoas and the last thing most of us need is a tighter Psoas.
The way half plow was taught to me was that students who couldn’t get both feet to the floor in Halasana could rest them on a chair.
As for the leg up and leg down business, I would say this is just a variation in shouldstand. I quite often take one floor to at the back and then take the other to the front [No I can’t take both feet to the floor at the same time!]