Good Morning Grace! Teaching Yoga at the Grassy Knoll: Kihei, HI: November 30, 2020

The view is awesome because it is full of AWE. Sunrise yoga at The Grassy Knoll.

Just before the sun rises high in the sky, our grassy knoll is shaded and dark. Such echos the yoga practice; we show up, then brighten up as we gain more clarity through the cleansing effects of the practice.

A common conversation among Maui residents is “I feel grateful to be here. I feel so lucky”. As Edna in The Incredibles reminds us ,“Luck favors the prepared, Darling”

Einstein said the same thing.  While ultimately all that happens is a matter of Divine Grace, our human effort is all important in attracting how our lives go. 

The practice prepares us for Grace.

When we give ourselves to grace, when we make the effort to surrender to the Divine, not only can we feel better for ourselves, but we can be open and more loving, which translates to a kinder more gentle world for all of us.

Here’s our sequence this lovely morning.

Windshield wiper

Sukasana 
Basket wrist stretch with uttithasukasana
Twist
Yoga wave
Low back stretch with criss cross apple sauce

Seated forward fold

Cat and cow
Single leg hamstring stretch and strength with twist
Plank
Downdog

Uttanasana
Squat
Power Uttithatadasana
Tadasana

 Lung Tapping
Full body tapping

 Tadasana

 Plank
Downdog
Three leg stretch
Low lunge with hamstring stretch and side bend
Twisted lunge
Side angle with prayer twist
Warrior II dance with prayer
Trikonasana
Hammock
Lunge
Downdog

Low cobra

Balasana

Camel

Supine shoulder opener on earth

Eye of the needle
Twisted root
Savasanaa

Sit
Heart beaming meditation
Namaste

Health, Love, and Rock n Roll