Sweet Vinyasa: Trappist Monks and the Miracles of Everyday Life: Monday, September 8, 2014

We riffed off the story of the Trappist monk who went searching for the truth and found 'what am I leaving out' to be a helpful alignment question.

And the bones helped us see the magic of the extraordinary ordinary more clearly.

Superslide heart opener
Butterfly

Supine pada gustasana with strap

Sage pose with gratitude meditation

Malasana
Uttanasana

Downdog

Easy side plank

Downdog
Plank
Baby cobra
Cobra

Barrel roll

Plank

Easy lunge salutes with low crescent

Tadasana
Yam

Standing sequence
Lunge
Twisted high lunge
Twisted low lunge
Twisted trikonasana
Parvatadasana

Uttanasana
Utkatasana
Tadasana
Lam

Other side standing poses

Downdog

Plank
Baby cobra
Locust
Swimming locust

Downdog
Uttanasana
Utkatasama
Tadasana

Standing dancing Shiva play

Bridge
Supported bridge
Supported shoulderstand

Twisted root

Savasana

Sit
Om
Namaste

Sweet Vinyasa: Bone Magic: Wednesday, August 3, 2014

We used the bones to help us see the magic that is here all around us, "seen" and  "unseen". We endeavored into a practice of pratyahara and tuned not only our site, but our other sense organs to hear, taste, feel, see the magic within.

heart opener over bolster
long stretch
femur meditation and rotation

bone rest savasana
OM

eye of the needle
rock the baby
twist
rest

LAM

malasana
uttanasana
uttithadasana
tadasana

guitar hero

tadasana
LAM

standing sequende
tadasana
lunge
high lunge
twisted lunge
warrior II dance
extended trikonasnaa
peaceful warrior
pigeon
mermaid

three leg dog
baby cobra
cobra
downdog

other side standing sequence

playful locust sequence

balasana

side saddle breathing room stretch and twist

pratyahara bone meditation

legs up the wall

savasana

sit
OM
Namaste