Yoga: Happy Baby, Bones, and Hearts beating with Love: Saturday, October 18, 2014

Subbed this class for Kira, for Julia, as Uschi went into labor early this morning. Jai!

So we did a practice with Happy Baby being our tethering pose, and love meditations to all people giving birth to all kinds of new ideas, paths, and yogas.


windshield wiper with side holds

half happy baby play
bone meditation rest
Love meditation for Uschi
Love meditation for peeps in your life who you'd like to send some love

sukasana circles and side bending

cat and cow
plank
downdog

lunge salutes with hamstring stretch

sphinx

plank
downdog
tadasana
shoulder rolls and shrugs
uttanasana variation
YAM

standing sequence:
tadasana
uttanasana
lunge
hammock
warrior II dance
horse play and balance
lunge

other side standing sequence

downdog
plank
reverse windshield wiper
belly and bone rest with neck stretch
seal
supine shoulder stretch with twist

bridge x2
easy twist

savasana

sit
OM
Namaste

Yoga for the Road: Breathe and Relax: October 1, Livermore, CA

30 mins
Terry and Johnne

Savasana
Full body stretch
Windshield wiper

Savasana

Cat and cow
Barell roll
Puppy dog
Balasana variation

Sukasana side bending x 2

Seated meditation 3 mins

Easy spine twist

Supported Savasana

Sweet Vinyasa: Trappist Monks and the Miracles of Everyday Life: Monday, September 8, 2014

We riffed off the story of the Trappist monk who went searching for the truth and found 'what am I leaving out' to be a helpful alignment question.

And the bones helped us see the magic of the extraordinary ordinary more clearly.

Superslide heart opener
Butterfly

Supine pada gustasana with strap

Sage pose with gratitude meditation

Malasana
Uttanasana

Downdog

Easy side plank

Downdog
Plank
Baby cobra
Cobra

Barrel roll

Plank

Easy lunge salutes with low crescent

Tadasana
Yam

Standing sequence
Lunge
Twisted high lunge
Twisted low lunge
Twisted trikonasana
Parvatadasana

Uttanasana
Utkatasana
Tadasana
Lam

Other side standing poses

Downdog

Plank
Baby cobra
Locust
Swimming locust

Downdog
Uttanasana
Utkatasama
Tadasana

Standing dancing Shiva play

Bridge
Supported bridge
Supported shoulderstand

Twisted root

Savasana

Sit
Om
Namaste

Sweet Vinyasa: Bone Magic: Wednesday, August 3, 2014

We used the bones to help us see the magic that is here all around us, "seen" and  "unseen". We endeavored into a practice of pratyahara and tuned not only our site, but our other sense organs to hear, taste, feel, see the magic within.

heart opener over bolster
long stretch
femur meditation and rotation

bone rest savasana
OM

eye of the needle
rock the baby
twist
rest

LAM

malasana
uttanasana
uttithadasana
tadasana

guitar hero

tadasana
LAM

standing sequende
tadasana
lunge
high lunge
twisted lunge
warrior II dance
extended trikonasnaa
peaceful warrior
pigeon
mermaid

three leg dog
baby cobra
cobra
downdog

other side standing sequence

playful locust sequence

balasana

side saddle breathing room stretch and twist

pratyahara bone meditation

legs up the wall

savasana

sit
OM
Namaste

Soft Vinyasa: Feelin' It In The Bones: Thursday, August 28, 2014

Subbed this class for Betsy.

The breath and our bones support us and we used them to help us begin to practice seeing with Divine eyes.

heart opener over bolster
femur meditation
full body stretch
femur rotation

eye of the needle
supine pigeon
eye of the needle twist

rest
bone meditation
LAM

malasana
uttanasana
uttithatadasana
shoulder rolls
uttanasana variation
tadasana
LAM

guitar hero with freeform

tadasana

standing sequence:
lunge
warrior I
twisted lunge
low crescent
pigeon
downdog

other side standing sequence

downdog
sphinx
seal
bone rest

downdog

dancing shiva play

uttansana
downdog
puppy dog
balasana

side saddle stretch and twist

bridge x 2

twisted root

savasana

sit
Namaste

Sweet Vinyasa: Thank you Bones! Wednesday, August 27, 2014

This devotional practice helped loosen the grip of the mind with gratitude to the bones and other divine sources of support.

Heart opener over bolster
femur meditation
long stretch with chinese circles
femur internal and external rotation
rest
YAM

eye of the needle
supine pigeon
eye twist


malasana
utthanasana
utktasana
uttithatadasana
tadasana
LAM

standing sequence:
lunge
side angle
triangle
standing triangle
peaceful warrior
pigeon

three leg dog
baby cobra
locust

downdog
other side standing sequence

downdog
baby cobra
cobra
balasana

plank
downdog
uttansanana
utkatasana
tadasana

tree
warrior III
tree

uttanasana
downdog

plank
baby cobra
locust
balasana

thigh torture

legs up the wall

savasana

sit
OM
Namaste

Yin Yoga: Bone Zone: Tuesday, August 26, 2014

We used the bones as our primary focus tonight. The bones rumored to hold our soul and to have or magical potency.

Impressing the Heart
extension over blocks
femur rotation
rest

butterfly (4 mins)

balasana
dragon (4 mins)
swan (3 mins)
rest

twisted root (3.5 each side)

savasana

sit
namaste