Subbed a last minute class here for this one and instead of panicking, I fell into alignment with a suggestion by Ravi Ravinda ..a willingness to be surprised.
A willingness to be suprised is a willingness to let go of thinking that I know the best alignment and a willingness to show up fresh and follow along with a bigger, higher, less obvious perhaps action. Yogis are always asking us to bring more visible to the invisible, more consciousness to the unconscious, more sacredness to the unseen.
During our sit, loud ambulance sirens rang out. Erich Schiffmann suggests when we hear this unexpected noise we send love out to the person that the sirens are going to see. This is a practice of a bobhisattva..one who seeks enlightenment not for one's own sake, but for that of another being...and all beings.
This whole practice was spontaneous and fresh, and a lot of fun to share. It helped me see what the yogis talk say about being in the fresh and unknown and unplanned, dropping the "I", and experiencing directly the joy and beauty that simply is.
Sit
Siren meditation
YAM
eye of the needle
half happy baby play
cat and cow
balasana
sphinx/seal
crocodile
plank
downdog
uttanasana
tadasana
shoulder rolls and shrugs
uttanasana
standing sequence:
lunge
hammock
side angle prep
trikonasanana
extended trikonasana
lunge
twisted lunge
downdog
baby cobra
locust
other side standing sequence
easy side plank
downdog
puppy dog
reclining Buddha
bridge x 2
twisted root
bodhisattva meditation
savasana
sit
OM
Namaste
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