Hot off the press of 'what I'm learning these days' is "energy flows were your attention goes", a little piece of wisdom I've been aware of for quite some time, but its coming back around for another look these days. I'm reading Harmonic Wealth and practicing with Kira and revisiting Patricia's workshop and am now learning a fresh twist and new tools about the quality of my attention with sutra 1.33. The suggestions of friendliness, compassion, sympathethic joy, and neutrality/equanimity give me useful direction to help me open. I am inspired and endeavor to share this in class.
It can be overwhelming to try to keep all these practices front and center at once; just looking at one practice at a time is useful for me (a tip I learned from Uma in studying the yamas and niyamas). So I started with 'maitri' (friendliness, especially friendliness to oneself) because it is the first suggestion in the sutras. We practiced maitri today. And we did some poses too!
It felt a little clumsy, it was unrehearsed, but it was a start in sharing this newfound space in my heart.
Heart opener over bolster.
breath awareness and attention
OM
windshield wiper
supine rest
sukasana side bending
baddha konasana with forward fold
table top
paschimotadasana
cat
cow
balasana
puppy dog
easy side angle
barrell roll
other side
tadasana
uttithatadasana
YAM
lunge salute with sphinx/seal
lunge salute with heart opener
cobra
locust
bow
balasana
tadasana
Maitri
lunge
twisted lunge
hammock
warrior II
extended side angle
vinyasa
other side
balasana
camel play
balasana
malasana
uttanasana
tadasana
Dancer's pose
twisted root with silent maitri (in retrospect would have been nice to do eye of the needle/twisted root combo)
supported savasana
sit
namaste!
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