Yoga School

In my own practice, I have found that creating an enclosure of time and space is indeed essential.

A basic 60 minute class sequence with a peak pose focus. Which one is the peak pose?

I feel the fire of my judgment burning in my nerves and making my thoughts spin, and I know that I have slipped out of balance.

The whole thing makes me appreciate that far from needing to be limited by a rigid external boundary, we have the capacity to be beautifully supple and expansive in our breathing and energetic exchange with the creation.

I came away from the whole thing with two thoughts: One, a great sense of relief that I’m not aspiring to teach hatha yoga in a yoga studio class setting, and two, a new found respect for the amount of study and work it takes to not only do the practice but to be able to describe it with precision and guide others through it with clarity and ease.

And those things that appall you, that seem evil or just really get your goat…

A rhythm developed of cycling through the dissolution into light dream, images flowing up from the depths unbidden, then awareness reemerging, and observing the flow of the mindstream – thoughts, internal sensations, external sensory impressions, all arising, then passing away – until again awareness dissolved back into the dreaming state.

Catherine’s presentation on Restorative Yoga helped to clarify that this intentional calming and activation of the parasympathetic nervous system needs to be a central part of my personal practice.

How intimate and comfortable and kind are you with your own body and its needs and wants?

How aware of sexuality are you in your life and practice? Is it something you consciously direct or not?