Wednesday Morning

Well, its Wednesday morning already and I am finishing up my tea this morning getting as Kelly is reading me some horrifying statistics about how many hours a day the average America child is interacting with an electronic device. Of course, I could talk about that this morning but if you are reading this it is because you are interacting with an electronic device! (Sigh)

This morning breakfast is like a new stream...last in, Kelly says Cedar allergies are predicted to get worse... okay, enough of that...time to write....

Well, yesterday was a somewhat trying day. I spent a lot of time yesterday (like 3 hours) compiling and editing a draft of my manuscript to get to John so he can edit it while I am on retreat and the computer kept not saving my work and losing the document and not sending it and so forth. I was seriously frustrated. Nor did it did not help that I had coffee yesterday morning instead of my usual tea so I was more edgy than usual! But eventually, I got the document changed, saved and sent to Mr. Friend.

On the non-trying end of things, I went down to San Marcos to have my hair cut with Ana and to talk with her about her journey as a yoga teacher and some ideas about opening up The San Marcos School of Yoga again. So that was fun. I don't think I would take on any classes there but we may collaborate on opening it as a Yoga Co-op of sorts with a somewhat small initial class offering. We'll see. Nothing definite until I get back from my retreat and I am more clear about how best to use my energy. But having the space in operation would also free me up to hold some of my 2011 trainings there.

So, then I went to Castle Hill for my 4:30 class which was fun. I had a class plan but I also took requests although oddly, I didn't really work too well with the requests or my plan because once I was looking at certain poses I went in the direction of what I was seeing in the classroom over what I had planned. So we worked a lot with shoulder and skull loop- a favorite topic of mine as of late- in vira 1, anjaneyasana, eka pada raka kapotasana and took that into some ustrasana and ustrasana drop backs and then into some urdhva danurasana work. I got on a theme about making peace with the small nation of one's own being and being sovereign over oneself as a peaceful and intelligent ruler. I thought it went well. We had a very sweet and sincere and hard working group assembled.

So- time to get ready for Focus on Form.

Wednesday Morning

I had a very nice day back. After catching up on some work in the morning I went swimming, met mom for lunch and did some grocery shopping, hung out for a bit with Dad and then did a yoga practice and taught my class. I really enjoyed having everyone in class- we seem to be developing some regular attendees in class and that makes all the difference in the world.

It is a forward bending/hip opening week so we worked with the following sequence:

Child's pose
AMS (some of you have asked- AMS= Adho Mukha Svanasana, down dog)
uttanasana
prasarita paddottanasana
sirsasana with eka pada sirsasasana and parsvaikapada sirsasna variations
anjanyeasana
virabhadrasana
eka pada supta virasana and variations at wall
parighasana at wall- 3X
ustrasana
triang mukaipada pascimottanasna
krouncasana, stage one
supta padanguthasana
krouncasana, stage two
uppavistha konasana
revolved, clasped uttanasana
clasped uttanasana
tittibasana
visvamitrasana prep
uttanasana with shoulder stretch
sarvangasana with halasana, eka pada and parsvaikapada sarvangasana variations
savasana (yes we really did it!)

The class went well. It is definitely a different kind of hard work to work in the seated postures and to be in the long holds of supta virasana variations and the repeated parighasana attempts for people who are not used to that kind of work. But the after effects of the sequence were quite nice- people were bright shiny and relaxed which is the lovely thing.

All right. Enough for now. Must go teach Focus on Form.