Monday, June 4, 2012

Sweet Vinyasa. Contemplation and love, practice and prayers. 6.4.12.

Subbing for Kira this morning.

I have been moved by this passage from Ravi Ravindra's diary-style book "Heart Without Measure", p. 19

"I have had a long-standing question about the relationship between the strength needed for action in the world and the lightness necessary for contacting the spiritual realm. In practice, in general, I am pulled either one way or the other. Somewhere I understand the need for balancing the two. I believe it was Meister Eckhart who said, 'what we receive in contemplation, we give out in love' ".

I have personally started to access this feeling tone through the doorway of a gratitude meditation practice.

These were the inspirations for class this morning.

Legs up the wall on bolster
gratitude meditation
OM

Eye of the needle at wall

Upavista konasana at wall

cat
cow
balasana
sphinx

plank
downdog
uttanasana
uttithatadasana
uttanasana variation

tadasana
YAM

lunge
twisted root
hammock
warrior II dance
low crescent

vinyasa with baby cobra and locust
balasana

other side

vinyasa with locust variation

downdog

pigeon
mermaid prep
ardha matseyendrasana
box or sukasana

paschimotadasana

vinyasa

other side

sit (5 mins)
sharing heart meditation

supported heart opener over bolster

savasana

sit
OM x 3
Namaste



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