Mid Winter Sweatfest

A few pictures from practice. I didn't get many. But we had a nice crowd in attendance- Jesse, John, Valerie, Me, Kelly, Erika, Margaret, Hanah, Mark, Anne, Jeff, Jeremiah, Kristin, Sheldon, Tristan, Meg, Kim,Caroline. I think that is is but I am feeling like I have forgotten someone... Oh well. Chime in if you were there and not on this list! Fun times.

We had a very fun, sweaty practice together yesterday. I brought a camera and everything but we were just so into practicing that it was hard to capture a lot of it on film.

The sequence, more or less:

Surya Namaskar- 15 minutes

handstand- 5 minutes

parsvakonasana

trikonasana

parsva utthita hasta padangusthasana

vasithasana 1,2

wild thing

deep hip stretches- forearms to floor, shoulder under shin, head behind shin

in flow:clasped parsvakonasana-clasped parva uttanasana- clasped parsva utthita hasta padangusthasana

eka hasta bhujasana

astavakrasana

eka pada kouninyasana 2

wild thing

crescent

vira 2

reversed vira 2

surya yantrasana

visvamitrasana

vira 1

anjaneyasana

parivritta parsvakonasana

in flow- clasped parivritta parsvakonasana to clasped parivritta uttanasana to bird of paradise

ekapada koundinyasana 1

dwi pada koundinyasana

parvsa bakasana/dwi pada koundinyasana attempts from sirsasana 2

wild thing

supta virasana

ustrasana

kapotasana prep with stright arms like urdhva danurasana

kapotasana prep back against wall with leg rooting partner assists

urdhva danurasana (load the legs!)

standing up form urdhva and dropping back

viparita chakrasana

kapotasana - (Yes, christina got her heels thanks to J-Man's most intelligent assist- just a few more inches to the ankles in 2009!)

eka pada rajakapotasana variations

AMS

uttanasana

parsva uttanasana

malasana

baddha konasana

pascimottanasana

ardha matsyendrasana

pascimottanasana

sarvangasana

halasana

savasana

FOOD.

We had a nice gathering afterwards over at the Sell Family Estate. We had the perfect amount of food and people to enjoy all the food. It was a fun and upbeat meal with a very comfortable enjoyable vibe. Perhaps I can start a holiday potluck tradition here. At Prescott Yoga we had the most fabulous holiday yohga party every year. We did a white elephant (but we changed the rules- it was a gift that you did not want but that someone else might not just some random piece of crap you had laying around) and the food and drink was always off the charts. So perhaps next year we can have a practice and a potluck at my new house!! yes, they took the offer!)