One Love: Teaching Yoga at Maui Yoga Path: Kihei, HI: October 3, 2021

I love the feel of a peaceful warrior pose on a luscious Sunday morning.

In his book LIght On Yoga by Iyengar he says, “the practice of yoga changes how you see things, but also the preson who is doing the seeing”. This is a tall promise, and had I not had the direct experience of knowing that was true, I might have skipped right over that line with a mildly sarcastic whatever.

Which is exactly what i did when i picked up this book in 2003 and had first stepped on to a yoga mat. But now, some eighteen years later, it resonates. The practice of yoga saved my life. I know yogis say this a lot , but instead of whatever-ing this as a dramatization, I believe.

Because it happened to me. Like a million times.

When I come to share a. yoga class, I endeavor to speak from experience. What happens when I lift my inner arches? What happens when my breath expands horizontally and vertically and front to back?

Iyengar is also rumored to say, “if you can’t know your big toe, how are you to supposed to know God?”. For me, if I don’t know my big toe, how can i help you align with it? The transference of knowledge is mystical. The relationship one yogi to another the mat (and off, no doubt), is completely magical. What I see when i look out to a class of so many different bodies and so many levels of relationship, I do see connection deeper than skin and bones.

The practice of yoga is transforming me and helping me see God in everyone.

Here’s our sequence today:

Swastikasana on block

Uttithaswastikasana on block
Parsvaswastikasana on block
Swastikasana variaion on block

Tabletop
Easy side plank

Balasana with block

Tadasana
Parvatadasana with shoulder stretch option

Prasarita legs
Peaceful Warrior
Prasarita padatadasana
Tadasana

Navasana with strap

Bridge with strap

Savanna

Sit
Namaste