One Breath at a Time 7.25.09

It came highly recommended to me to record my sequences as a practice, and I have loosely been doing this in my journal since Kira's TT in summer of '08. After a meeting with Kira a few weeks ago, she recommended that I step it up a bit, create a blog, and record every time. I have not been lead astray by K's recommendations, so I decided to make the leap, and give it a whirl, frankly not thinking it would have an important impact. And PS, it was just another thing 'to do'. But I am so deeply fascinated with yoga in all its names, forms and practices that I will stretch myself and try new things (especially when it comes from a good source!). Mahatma Ghandi once described his life as 'living experiments'. That philosophy works really well for me. So I've been experimenting and blogging right along.

Its only been a short while but it has come to be one of the most interesting new things I'm doing on my path to self discovery. Its a cool little routine I'm gotten into to; to sit down and write after teaching. Its a valuable piece of private reflection time. 

Last night after One Breath I went to a kirtan gathering so I didn't have time to write afterwards. I missed that part of the teaching arch a lot. It really made me grateful for this instruction that so loving and freely has been given to me. 

I am starting to trust on a deeper level the whole notion of divine order, and man is that a relief!

 I can't exactly remember what we did, but something like this:

Heart opener over bolster

breath awareness

windshield wiper

pausing at supine on the earth to check out the effects!

Cat

Cow

Balasana

1/4 dog

downdog

easy side plank

cat/cow

tadasana

lunge salutes

tadasana

side angle to standing

pelvis rotation exploration

Warrior II

forward fold

Trikonasana

forward fold

other side

Tree (asked them to look at tree outside to connect with the deeper sense of oneness with the world. It was all guys in the class tonight; I think they thought it was a little nana-nunu). 

bridge

easy spine twist

savasana

sit

Serenity Prayer

Namaste

It was very mellow and quiet and about noticing the effects of the practice. Not a lot of fluff outside the tree episode.