Monday, August 18, 2014

Sweet Vinyasa: Low Back, Easy Yoke, and Light Burden: Monday, August 18, 2014

We had a request today for low back relief. One of the first suggestions yogis make about how to relieve pain is Ishvara Pranidad, translated as surrender to the cosmos. In the Christian tradition in the story of Jesus walking on water and inviting the fisherman to yoke with him to rest..as his "yoke is easy, and the burden is light" (Matthew 11.30)

So we played with easing the low back and other pain in the alignments of ease and a lightened burden.

knees to chest
windshield wiper
full body stretch
rest

eye of the needle
supine pigeon
twisted needle
rest

downdog

low lunge with crescent

cat and cow

half frog

easy side plank

downdog
uttansana
malasana
uttanasana

tadasana
low back breathing into hands
uttansana

standing sequence
downdog
warrior I dance
parsvatadasana
pigeon
supine tree

bridge
supported bridge
supported shoulder stand

easy spine twist

supported savasana

sit
Namaste

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