If you’re curious about exploring something different, restorative, and scalable (as intense or light as YOU want!) come join me at hot spot. The room is 95, it’s not Surya Namaskar intensive, and the format allows plenty of room for personal exploration… While overlooking gorgeous Connecticut Ave. See you at 12!!
Casual cleans and a shoulder press in my @ashtanganation tank from earlier in the week.
The teacher of a number of my friends. A heartening read. https://tribegrow.com/hamish-hendry-ashtanga-yoga-london-interview-760420f04314
“There’s a saying that the four prerequisites for practice are great faith, great doubt, great vow, and great vigor. When I first went to Mysore it was because I wanted to see if being there and studying with Sharath would satisfy the questions in my mind about practice. About this thing that I felt driven…
KAPOTASANA What’s really interesting here is finding places of weakness, tightness, or asymmetry, and targeting it directly. If something’s out of whack, we gotta build both the length and the strength to put it back. So first things first, we we have to FEEEEL the asymmetry, but then we begin to introduce actions that encourage…
It does get really hot out here. Ya gotta work quickly sometimes.
Keeping your trunk engaged and diaphragm working properly for an entire sequence/series/class is fascinatingly challenging. #notesfromyesterdayspractice
“Its easy for you– you can do it,” “don’t think– go.” “no fear, no fun.” … I didn’t believe a word of any of it… Until I did. Thanks, Boss.
Led primary was filled with folks I’ve had the good fortune to work with for over three years each (wow!!) So, I put my mat down and we all practiced together, taking turns calling the postures.
A riff on urdhva kukutasana a– with a focus on sutra 3.32– By samyama on the kurma nadi (a subtle tortoise-shaped tube located below the throat), motionlessness in the meditative posture is achieved.