Bharat and Bliss: Teaching Flow and Restore at 808 Wellness: Kihei, Maui, HI: December 3, 2018

I go watch the sunset every night to connect with the ocean, the sun, and sometimes with other people. Its a truly magical time when get all gather in love and awe.

Yoga isn't interested in anything small minded or small hearted. The practices are here to help us see beyond the our minds, no matter how smart we think we are. The Upanishads tells the story of Swetuketu, how upon returning from his university education, was asked by his sage father, "but did you learn to see the unseeable? Did you learn to hear the unhearable? Yoga helps widen our perceptions making more visible the invisible, which often begins by showing us our own tight spots. Eventually, maybe, at least for me, I've begun to see new possibilities and new opportunities I never even considered in my wildest dreams.

Marianne Willilamson writes, “your playing small doesn’t serve the world. There’s noting enlightened about shrinking”. In class today we made an effort to be as expansive as we possibly could through the movement of our bodies and of our breath, and of our hopes, dreams, and hanstrings.

Here’s our sequence (or something like it. I wrote this blog a few days after class).

Savasana

Supine hamstring stretch and twist with strap

Cat and Cow
Balasana side stretch
Downdog

Lizard with twist
Downdog

Uttanasana
Uttithatadasana
Tadasana

Lunge
Twist
Trikonasana

Downdog
Lunge
Twist
Trikonasana
Half Moon

Tadasana

Pigeon
Twist

Savasana

Namaste

I didn’t do half of what I’d planned and still ran late so we ended in savasana. Oh well.

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