Practice Milestone: Backbends

Yesterday I stood up from and dropped back into Urdhva Dhanurasana for the first time ever. Woohoo! It was so much fun, seriously, I loved it! I did it with help from Neil, of course, but right after that Paul came by to say that he wants to work on my standing up by myself. I've been looking forward to this for a while now, but I have to say that the work that goes into standing up and dropping back is just that: work. My back was starting to cramp today after the 3 regular Urdhva Dhanurasanas plus the work they gave me to do at the wall plus standing up and dropping back with assistance. Only a few more practice days left here...have to make the most of them.