Cosmic Rest: Teaching Yoga on the Grassy Knoll: Kihei, HI: March 1, 2021

Would you just look at that morning Full Moon?

Every morning I walk out to the Grassy Knoll I am wow-ed. Every. Single. Time. Teaching outside on the Grassy Knoll is extra fun because nature infuses our practice with organic, natural support and love. It's a place where people naturally feel good.

Yoga sutra 2.24 says our poses should be seated in the balance of effort and ease. I've spent most of my life infusing ease to my efforts, surrender to my desires, ungripping my control (like I really have any, but that's another blog...). The Grassy Knoll is a place that teaches me to make an effort to feeling ease.

Anxiety and worry are wearisome. They have not helped me magically produce money. My practice of ease hasn't either, but then again, I haven't missed a meal, I have a lovely little cottage by one of my favorite beaches in the world, a solid community of friends and family, and a retooled career as a yogi. Furthermore, I've come to know the real career I'd want is exactly the life I'm living in this moment.

And if that's not solid gold, I don't know what is.

Our biggest alignment in class this morning was Maui herself. The land, the ocean, the sky, and the air. Easy peasy.

Here was our sequence:
Cosmic Rest Moon Bath with earth, water, sky meditationWindshield wipers
Happy baby variation with inner thigh stretch
Full body long stretch

Upavista konasana
Green tara with twist, side bend, and hip rotation variation

Upavista forward fold
Dandasana
Paschimotadasana

Cat and cow
Easy side plank
Half half moon with heart opener variation
Pigeon ocean rolls

Downdog
Tadasana with abundant element meditation

Warrior I
Warrior II dance
Warrior II
Half moon with candy cane option

Cat and cow
Reverse windshield wipers
Recling buddha

Savasana
Sit
Namaste

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