The Medicine Of Exhale: Teaching Flow and Restore at 808 Wellness, Kihei, Maui, HI: May 10, 2019

My little maltese Star is an expert at the exhale!

There has been a lot of energy swirling around here. By definition yoga is the calming of the mind (sutra 1.2). The texts are filled with ways to do this and today we called in joy, gratitude, asana, pranayama, and the "sssssssssss" mantra which extends the exhale as well is said to be the transformative sound for the lungs, which hold our sadness and grief and transforms into the ability to let go (aparigrapha).

We practiced all of it, like yogi scientists, exploring what seems to work today, in this moment, which we all are learning, is different that any other moment so we did our best to stay present.

Here is our sequence:

Windshield wiper
Eye of the Needle
SSSSSSS breath meditation

Cat and Cow
Downdog
Lunge
Low lunge with lung breathing

Uttanasana
Standing half moon
Tadasana
OM

Guitar Hero
Meridian meditation with SSSSSS breath
Gratitude meditation
OM

Lunge
Eagle Arms
Eagle
Warrior 111 Eagle
Standing splits
Pigeon

Twisted Root

Savasana

Seated Meditation
YAM
Namaste

Health, Love, and Rock N Roll
xoWinifred