The Breath Is Always In Love So Let's Hang Out There: Teaching Flow and Restore at 808 Wellness: December 20, 2019: Kihei, Maui, HI

Star is my take-it-easy guru.

Generally I get nervous before teaching yoga. I prepare for days, usually, but lately I've been a little more cultivated in my approach. Even more than preparing the sequences, it seems to me, is to prepare myself. I'm showing up in a more relaxed state. Calmer. Less afraid of not garnering approval.

And, more than ever, willing to try new-to-me sequences and poses. For example, since I quit teaching Bikram in 2005, I've never again taught Utkatasana. It's an all around pose bummer, so you know, why bother. In the back on my mind I believe people will like my class better because there's never Utkatasana.

Lately Utkatasana has been showing up everywhere. And the lack of it, in my giggly inner thighs. So I've busted it out again, and offering it in classes.

Like magic, just as my book proposal is beginning to hit the light of day, life itself it busting at the seams in new directions, too.

New Year’s is right around the corner, but why wait to do new things then? Atha Yoga Anushasanam (sutra 1.1). The teachings of yoga are HERE and NOW.

Here's today's sequence:

Bolster belly savasana
Child’s pose with breathing room
Cat and cow with balance and twist
Downdog

Dolphin

Forearm balance
Forearm plank
Locust play
Forearm plank with Vishnu balance play

Downdog
Uttanasana
Tadasana
Half moon

Utkatasana (woo HOO!!! )
Warrior I
Humble warrior
Warrior II
Gita warrior
Trikonasana
Downdog

Pigeon with twist
Seated Windshield wipers
Supported Savasana

Sit
Namaste

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