Deep Full Breath, Deep Full Life: Teaching a Private: Wailea, HI: February 28, 2021

Deep full breaths can help us in our deep full lives. It’s really just that simple.

One of the very first suggestions by sages in how we might more skillfully participate in our full lives is simply to just take a deep full breath. Or two. And a thirty minute yoga session filled with mindful breaths can do wonders for, well, just about everything.

One of the Sunday yogi's superpowers is discipline. He's famous in his career for adherence to ethics, which, in a field decidedly not known for it's morality, says a lot. I've witnessed this carry over into his yoga. Again, this speaks volumes, because in the field of yoga, I’ve witnessed many people new to the practice give up after a few months. That point in the practice when things start to get down into the deeper layers of the body and mind. That place where the pink cloud of bliss turns into the grey area of parts within that you wish worked a little differently than they do.

The word for practice in Sanskrit is Abhyasa. And the trick to sharing yoga with people is to actually let them practice. Allow enough room so that they have the opportunity to experience abhyasa. A little instruction can go a long way if you stop talking and allow them to breathe.

Our practice today walked the Sunday yogi a little deeper into parts yet unstretched in previous classes..the inner thighs and the front of the shoulders. The poses speak for themselves so I really didn't have to say too much except to remind him to breathe.

Here's our practice:

Heart opener over folded towel
Constructive rest
Full breath pranayama

Windshield wipers

Happy baby variation

Upavista konasana
Green Tara with twist, twisted sideband, and straight sideband

Wide leg forward fold
Paschimotadasana
Dandasana with backbend and lower jaw release

Tadasana
Swimmers
Windmills

Leg strength chair play with tippee toe

Warrior I
Twist
Warrior II dance
Tippee toe warrior

Tadasana
Uttanasana

Cat cow

Locust play upper body
Locist play lower body

Reclining Buddha

Easy Twist

Savasana

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