Had a really strong class today...felt extra focused. I think this has to do partially with some new literature I have been reading that has helped open me up more to listening to my thoughts and having more control over them and ultimately freeing myself from them. Reading "A New Earth" by Eckhart Tolle. It's all about getting rid of the ego...that inner voice, the need to identify with form that we all seem burdened by. Slowly letting go of that opens up things I could have never imagined unless I saw/felt it happen to me, and it's starting to...a little bit at a time. Yoga is such a great way to help sharpen that focus. There is SO MUCH to discover!
Angel of the day: Compassion (hopefully this angel is with me every day even if I don't pick it from the bowl)
Wednesday, August 24, 2016
Tuesday, August 16, 2016
8.16.16- 6am
Being able to curve in towards your belly during compression poses like Stretching and Standing Separate Leg Head to knee is a real challenge for me but as I start to go deeper in my practice I'm feeling the benefits. There are parts of the neck that are so bound up with tension and lack of use. Allowing the neck to release in to these poses, and then curling in towards the abdomen releases so much good stuff in to the body!
Wednesday, August 3, 2016
8.3.16- 9:30am Aspen, CO
I took a very interesting yoga class today. It was very different from the ones in Corvallis or Portland, or anywhere I've been so far. The main differences:
-music and loud talking before class...music varied from Lionel Ritchie to Daft Punk to some sort of new country song which was unfortunate. During the standing series I recall Warren G "This DJ" and some other random R&B. Loud talking was mainly about luxury hotels to stay at in Boston. Apparently the Mandarin Oriental is really the best in terms of location and spa and there is a Soul Cycle right next door. #themoreyouknow
-I couldn't see myself in the front mirror (we were packed in mat to mat people in front of each other) but when I did a backbend I could see myself in the back mirror and it was REALLY cool! Until I almost lost my balance on the forward bend...but wow, that's a view I have never seen before. Especially while listening to Dr. Dre.
-The class was only 75min long but we did all of the 26 poses. They offer an hour long one as well...I guess you just don't hold the poses that long. I was told in class "we like to get things done quickly in Aspen".
-music and loud talking before class...music varied from Lionel Ritchie to Daft Punk to some sort of new country song which was unfortunate. During the standing series I recall Warren G "This DJ" and some other random R&B. Loud talking was mainly about luxury hotels to stay at in Boston. Apparently the Mandarin Oriental is really the best in terms of location and spa and there is a Soul Cycle right next door. #themoreyouknow
-I couldn't see myself in the front mirror (we were packed in mat to mat people in front of each other) but when I did a backbend I could see myself in the back mirror and it was REALLY cool! Until I almost lost my balance on the forward bend...but wow, that's a view I have never seen before. Especially while listening to Dr. Dre.
-The class was only 75min long but we did all of the 26 poses. They offer an hour long one as well...I guess you just don't hold the poses that long. I was told in class "we like to get things done quickly in Aspen".
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