Delight of the Earth, Love In The Wind, and Twinkle in the Toes: Teaching Yoga at the Grassy Knoll: Kihei, HI: December 5, 2020

This Star pose is so fun to do, especially if you play with lifting up to your tippy toes on the standing leg.

I was in a super funk yesterday. I know I'm not alone here with the I'm OK, I'm not OK swirl. And that Not OK feeling, well, it just comes out of nowhere sometimes. Yet, too, I can track it's might with activities like too much coffee, too much news, to much, well, just about anything. My capacity to hold myself steady is thin, as of late.

Yoga is not the only to wind out of the dark, but it is sure one of my favorite ways. I resisted the urge to dive under the covers, again, and instead, picked up the phone and dialed for help, meaning setting up a pop up, let’s meet for yoga class with outdoor yoga sangha. I always do better with a little yoga with friends, and this morning was no exception.

We played with Kahil Gibran's verse that says. "forget not the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the wind loves to play with your hair". We yoga-ed from the crown of our heads to our tippy star toes.

It's so true, what the Buddha said, the sangha is one of the crown jewels of a happy life.

Here's our sequence:

Seated windshield

Upavista with twist
Sidebend
Strength Heart Lift with shoulder rotation

Supine strength twist

Bicycle

Navasana

Sit with Sufi circles
Quiet Mind Press

Cat cow with strength and balance play
Twisted root balasana

Downdog
Uttanasana
Uttithatadasana
Tadasana
Anjali Audra with Earth Delight meditation

Lung/Heart/Thymus tapping

Sun Salutation A variation

Parvatadasana
Warrior III
Standing splits
Warrior III
High crescent
Twist
Low lunge
Hallelujah
Hamstring stretch

Tadasana

Tin soldier
Tree
Shining star
Tippy toe Shine

Uttanasanaa
Plank

Sphix/Seal

Easy Twist
Savasana

Sit
Heart Beam

Namaste

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