Open The Sails: Teaching Flow and Restore at 808 Wellness: June 19, 2019: Kihei, Maui, HI

“On a day when the wind is perfect, the sail just needs to open and the world is full of beauty.
Today is such a day”. Rumi

My favorite line in that Rumi poem is "today is such a day" because it reminds me everyday is such a day, if we choose to open the sails of our heart.

One of the yogis who showed up for class was having a tough time with anxiety. She was specifically there to, as sutra 1.2 suggests, quiet the mind. So I slowed the sequence even more and tried my best to tether the mind into the body to help slow us down. Along the way we did some expansive meditations and towards the end endeavored to "see the air". Given air is the quality of the heart, this was a way to tether Rumi's line "the world is full of beauty" and end our practice together with a little more ease and ground to go out in the world and greet what meets us with our bigger capacity to greet it with grace and appropriate action.

Here's our sequence:

Savasana stretch
windshield wiper
eye of the needle
needle twist
savasana

cat and cow
easy side plank

plank
downdog
uttanasana
tadasana

Anjali mudra
OM

lunge
low lunge
hamstring stretch
twisted lunge

chair pose
tadasana
Bharat expansion meditation
OM

lunge
Warrior I
Warrior III
Standing splits
Warrior II
Warrior II dance
Peaceful Warrior
Extended Warrior
Trikonasana
Tadasana

Tree
Standing Star pose

Uttanasana
Malasana

Bridge

Cosmic Rest Pose

Savasana

sit
OM
Namaste

We also touched on the power of coming together, of sangha (sangham saranam gacchami) and I was reminded of another Rumi saying, "when I'm with you, everything is prayer" but I didn't say it. I kept it to myself to let it marinate to perhaps, share in a later class.

Health, Love and Rock N Roll

Winifred