Sweet Vinyasa: Aligning with internal order: Monday, August 5, 2013

Surrendering the small self is absolutely required in the path of yoga and the aligning with internal peace and quiet. The sanscrit term is vairagya. The yoga sutras talk about a higher vairagia and a lower vairagya-two distinct forces, one of attraction for the more subtle and quiet and bright and one of repulsion away from the dark and tight spots. Our practice today was with the higher vairagia (sutra  1.16). One of the descriptions of this alignment is "luminosity".
Patanjali mentions this in sutra 1. 36 - inner radiance free from sorrow.

This practice was inspired by the idea that transformation is not changing into someone else, but rather an alignment with the deepest parts of self and sacred order. This is a new learning for me about what the sages say about transformation and an interesting way to practice freedom from the known.
on bricks
pranayama with arms extended overhead
OM
sit (3 mins)
cat and cow
balasana
puppy dog
table top balance play
easy side plank
downdog
uttanasana
uttithatadasana
uttanasana variation
repeat
tadasana
YAM
standing sequence #1
lunge
twisted lunge
hammock
warrior II dance with gaze on back foot then over heart
baby cobra and locust
barell roll
other side standing sequence #1
plank play
tadasana
standing neck stretches
standing sequence #2
lunge
side angle prep
trikonasana
half moon
standing splits
pigeon
three leg dog
other side standing sequence #2
downdog
baby cobra to cobra
roll supine
happy baby
bridge
closing sequence:
eye of the needle
twisted root
texas star
repeat closing sequence
savasana or sit
sit
OM
Namaste