The Dance of Yoga: Teaching Yoga On The Grassy Knoll: March 8, 2021: Kihei: HI

I couldn’t balance in Dancing Shiva on the Grassy Knoll, but that’s all part of the play. New movements and teaching new things feel both wobbly and exhilarating. The dance of “both/and” is a lot more fun than “either/or”.

There is the temptation to believe yoga happens when we come to a class, and maybe that's why the first few moments of dropping into a practice feels so good. We consciously come home to ourselves.

The deeper truth is yoga never left us. It’s always with us. We get so busy in our days and our lives that our attention becomes scattered and fractured, and by extension, so do we.

The world is changing mighty fast and I'm loving Marie Kondo's suggestion to "leave behind the things of the past, and only keep those of the person you are becoming" It’s not easy, to be sure, and some habits and things are exceeding hard to jettison. For starters, I have four storage containers full to the brim on the mainland. Yet want nothing more than to live permanently in Maui.

So lately I'm trying to think of it as a dance, which is a rather tough image because I've been told I'm not a good dancer.

But maybe this, like my crazy expensive, lots of “life up till now” things carefully packed in uniform storage boxes, all tidy and labeled, can move on to make room for what’s next. How to let go of caring about what people thing about my dance moves? How to part with my Grandmother’s fine china? I haven’t quite figured that out yet.

But meanwhile, I forgive myself for not knowing all the answers to these big questions.

And dance anyway.

Here's our sequence today:
Sit
Heart ground meditation
Sukasana circles
Seated Twist

Paschimotadasan
Reverse table with windshield wipers release

 Crab dance

Table tog cat and cow

Extended leg calf stretch with strength variation
Side plank

Sphinx

Malasana
Tadasana
Downdog
One leg stretch with balance challenge

Low lunge twist
Warior II dance
Extended trikonasana
Trikonasana
Skandasana

 Tadasana

Dancing Shiva play

Tadasana
Uttanasana

Cat and cow

Supine twist with supine Shiva option

Savasana

Sit
Prayers to the World meditation
Namaste

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