I finally realized this morning, although I have been told this many times, all the postures in Intermediate Series prior to Karandavasana are preparing for Karandavasana. It is absolutely brilliant! The seers knew what they were doing. I also realized that to do any of the movements in the practice a person is not using any individual muscle but the whole body. One does not want to isolate a single area of the body but move all the muscles together to produce the desired