Sweet Vinyasa 8:30am Monday

 15 peeps

All 20 Class Card Holders.  So, intimate committed group.  Similar play as on Wednesday and Saturday.  Focus on the engineering details of internal and external rotation of the hips using straps and blocks and playing with those details.  In this class we dialed in and geeked out towards headstand.  Then Bridge with Bricks.  Almost 10 minute Savasana.  One of my favorite classes ever.

Strap around the Toes

Toe Spreading

Ankle Strap and Outward Pressing

Block in Inner Thigh Squeezing

an all together

Belly Stem to Sacrum Play

Uttanasana

Belly Play 

Roll up to Tadasana

Strap and Block work in Tadasana

with Shoulder Opening Work

Tadasana

OM

Sequence 1

Sun to 

Lunge

Twisting Lunge

Hammock

Lunge

Dog

Repeat Sequence 1 Other Side from Dog

Sphinx Vinaysa

Easy Side Plank Sequence Both Sides

(feel like there was something else here...?)

Side Plank Both Sides

Sphinx/Cobra Vinyasa

Dog

Uttanasana

Roll up to Standing

Tadasana

OM

Sequence 2

Sun to 

Side Angle Blueprint with Block

Triangle with Block

Side Angle with Block

Deep Low Hip Opener

Lunge

Twisting Triangle Variation

Lunge

3 Legged Dog

Dog

Cobra Locust Vinyasa

Repeat Sequence 2 Other Side

Cobra Locust Vinyasa

Childs Pose

(here i was not totally sure what was coming next.  i waited and got the hit towards headstand)

Shoulder Wrapped Opener with Block and San Block

Headstand Prep

Suggestion to Feel the leg work in the headstand

5 Minutes Free Time

Some in Headstand

Some with 3 Blocks

and all the work inbetween

Childs Pose

Transition to Bridge Pose with Blanket and 2 Bricks

5 Minutes Play

Rest

Savasana

Practicing with Patricia

oh! i am the luckiest.

today after class patricia sullivan came to the studio with a bog pot of kitcharie that she had just made.  i ate a cup. so wonderful.

and then we practiced together. and talked and shared.

before she got there i had been trying to figure out how to get weight on my heart.  i was playing with the sandbag and bricks and nothing was working.  

she put me in a restorative bridge using 2 bolsters.  then she wrapped the strap around my legs. but she did not just bind them, she mummified me by wrapping the strap all the way down my legs.  my nervous system immediately responded with a deep sigh.  i felt held.  and i had the insight that we create tension as a way of feeling held.  then i experienced a piercing intense pain in my right knee.  but something whispered that it was going to be okay, that something was just moving.  if a student had explained this pain to me i would have taken them right out, but because it was me, i stayed with it and sure enough it softened and opened.

then she put the sand back on my heart.  and pushed a little bit of blanket under my neck to help it be straight.  there is a long standing holding pattern in my neck that causes me to look down and to the right.  (i can't bear to watch kind of thing).  this position allowed for the magic.

from here i went into a side bending sequence and forward folding

to using the bolster, blanket and strap for backbending

patricia showed me "the winter coat" position for the strap.  you create a giant loop and then wrap it over your shoulders like a backback and then step through it.  lie down with your tummy on the bolster and loop it around your ankles.  Bow pose finally feels like a bow.

we then rested in starfish pose and i showed her the cool camera system at the studio.  i am hoping that patricia will feel moved to film a little before she goes back up north.