The Sacrifice of Negative Thinking And Other Tight Spots: Teaching Gentle Yoga at the Wailea Yoga Shala: Wailea, Hi: November 26, 2017

Warrior I pose. One definition of practice 'abyhasa' is to tune your awareness to the positive. We practiced being warriors of gratitude in class today to help break the habit of negative thinking.

G.K. Chesterton defined gratitude as "happiness doubled with wonder" and claimed it to be the highest form of thought. Today we used gratitude as our main alignment as we made our way though sticky shoulders and hips, and finding yoga as defined by sutra 1.12 "practice and surrender". We also touched on sutras 1.2 to 1.4 , with emphasis on how positive emotions for real help us give room to the tight spots. Here is our sequence:

Sit

gratitude meditation with GK Chesterton's definition
 

All fours

Cat and cow with side stretch

Toe and inner thigh stretch

Easy side angle

Plank

Downdog

Uttanasana

Tadasana

Should shrugs

Shoulder rotations

Guitar hero

Tadasana

Easy lunge salutes

Hamstring stretch with hamstring rotation

Downdog

Rolling Cobra x3

Child's pose

Downdog

Uttanasana

Uttithatadasana

Tadasana

Warrior I

Eagle arms

Warrior III

Downdog

Eye of needle

Twist

Supported savasana with WOW meditation

Sit

Namaste