A Little Chit Chat With Our Yoga. Teaching a Private: Wailea: Hi: February 21, 2021

The Sunday yogi loves the mangos from our gigantic tree so I came out to pick a few for him to enjoy after our class. Mangos are yoga too!

Rarely is our Sunday yoga together just about the asana. The movement and breathing exercises, and this is true for any yoga class, by the way, are merely vehicles to help us connect with our own breath, body, and spirit. This awareness translates to a sweeter world, and for this, I was more grateful than usual this lovely Maui Sunday morning. Our session included a little chit chat in our sidebands, and our beach chair savasana allowed for an unexpectedly longer-than-usual visit. It was a spontaneous heart-to-heart moment.

What's cool about this is that I've known the Sunday yogi for almost a decade. But I feel now that we are real friends. His wife, his dog, and the two cats are too a big part of the fun heart connection.

It has been a choice for both David and I to largely adhere to the recommended guidelines of social distancing; a yoga practice in and of itself because of the deep connection within that almost a year with just the two of us fosters. It's been an abrupt turn from a regular meeting of literally hundreds of people most nights of the week. This pandemic, I'll admit, has forced me to study and confront my anxiety. It's hard to let people in again. So much of me is in full protection mode and trust is a battlefield. . The Sunday yogi is teaching me it's safe to raise the white flag.

"Start where it's easy", suggests my teacher Eric Schiffmann. And yoga on Sundays is the perfect place to practice just that. The poses and the mental peace.

Thank you, thank you.

Here's our sequence today:

Seated circles
Stop sign arm-neck stretch
Ocean side bending in sukasana
Forward fold
Reverse table
Seated witndhsiod wipers

Supine pada
Eye of needle with twist

Supine power cat
Supine power march
Supine power twist

Supine full body stretch

Tadasana with energy sweep

Beach chair twist
Calf raises
Balance pose

Seated beach chair neck stretch and twist

Beach chair savasana

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