Monday, October 15, 2012

Sweet Vinyasa: Holy Waters Within. 10.15.2012

We've been playing in the manipura and using practices to notice, feel, and connect to the jewels within. Riffing off this, there is a particularly striking example of tuning to the magnificence within in the Darshana Upanishad 4.53 (as brought to me by Ravi in his book 'the Spiritual Roots of Yoga', p. 55). We used this verse as the inspiration for the class today and used the swadisthana as our main area of focus:

"the tirthas of your body
infinitely surpass those of the world,
and the tirtha-of-the-soul is the greatest of them:
the others are nothing beside it."

windshield wiper
supine pada gustasana and twist with strap

easy side plank

cat/cow
balasana

balasana variation

plank
downdog play
uttanasana
uttithatadasana
tadasana
VAM

lunge
twisted lunge
hammock
low crescent
other side
vinyasa with baby cobra, locust, and locust variation

crocodile

all fours pelvis rotation

plank
downdog

lunge
hammock
exhalted warrior
warrior II
trikonasana
pigeon
three leg dog with revolved dog option
other side

vinyasa with locust and locust varation

supine windshield wiper

bridge
heart meditation

twisted root

savasana

sit
OM
Namaste


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