Greetings and Windy Spring Salutations!
No Time for Yoga? Take Yoga Everywhere...even on a Sierra Club Volunteer Vacation...so first, How I Spent My Volunteer Vacation:
Day One was liberating the Cottonwoods, check out the very short video below. While I was in the sun with my friends (the Cottonwoods and the other Volunteers) prying the chicken wire out of the bark of the trees I could almost feel and hear the tree breath a big sigh of relief. And I was struck by the metaphor. How often do we use absolutely necessary props (stay alive by keeping the beavers out) and supports in our lives, they are useful but then, slowly, subtly they actually constrain our growth.
We can practice this on the mat by remaining very present and not automatically doing the pose the exact same way, maybe changing a physical prop we use (putting the block at a lower level for example) or by doing the pose in a different way, perhaps more intensely, to see if we've been chicken wiring our poses and now it's time
to liberate.We CAN take yoga off the mat and use the supportive and life-affirming principles of the practice to make everyday more beautiful and to allow us to feel more fully alive.
That's the idea of the next workshop, No Time for Yoga, Take Yoga Everywhere!
In this workshop we will learn yoga off the mat "poses" to be done in a chair, while standing, while driving, as well as breathing practices for difficult situations, mediation practices that you can do during your day, and especially we'll get a chance to turn those irritating thoughts upside down through a yoga practice of opposites. Join us Sunday, April 25, 2-5 pm. Materials provided to take home and a journal to carry with you to keep yoga in your pocket.
May all our days be filled with the joy and happiness that is at the core of our beings,
many blessings and much love,
Meta.
