Perspective

Setting the theme/tone:

Reading:

The theme for tonight’s class is perspective, which is related to happiness/ joy.  Something we are all after.  When Krishna was young he would sneak into neighbors houses and eat their butter, curd & yogurt & in defense the mas would string it up high.  But Krishna was smart & enlisted all his buddies to pile on top of each other so he could climb up on them & get to the good stuff.  So tonight’s theme is all about finding the butter in life & really the butter is already there & you already are perfect, you just have to peel away the layers of maya, illusion, that you are not.  All the negative thoughts & judgements, and voices in your head that are destructive to your and the whole are illusion

Pranayama:  Churn the butter (sufi grinds) & incorporate breath in with going to the right & left. (first chakra)

Mudra: Kapitthaka/Smiling Buddha Mudra in Malasana/Garland Pose

Mantra: “There is a drop of butter in every moment of my life, my perceptions create my own reality.”

Asana:

Down dog to pidgeon & then create a flow with the arm, milking the movement of the hips a little more here

Sun A x 5

1. Down Dog to Plank to Chatarunga to Up Dog to Down Dog x 5
2. Right Hand Hasta Banda (do vinyasa on your right fingertips, a bit cadiwompus)
3. Left Hand Hasta Banda (same but on left fingertips)
4. Both Hands Hasta Banda (on both fingertips)
5. Running Chatarunga

Sun B x 4

1. Crescent to Prayer Twist to Side Crow to Navasana 

1. Build up a Sun B: spend 5 breaths in each pose: down dog with hip opener to wild thing, WIII to Arda Chandrasana, leg out to side, Revolved Half Moon, Standing Splits & Shiva Squats
2. Spend one breath in previous sequence and spend 5 breaths in the following sequence: from Shiva Squats...Seated Spinal Twist, Half Pigeon, King Pigeon, Runner’s Lunge, Runner’s Lunge with a twist
3. Spend one breath in previous sequence and spend 5 breaths in the following sequence: from Runner’s Lunge with a twist... turn to face the side with one knee bent and take a bind, Prasaritta, Option for funky tripod head stand, Prasaritta C & Star Pose.

1. Move to face a wall with a flow from Down Dog to Hand Stand to Wheel & back.

QUads, wheel/full camel & Inversions (aid in digestion, circulation, heart & lungs & stimulate pituitary, pineal & thyroid glands) against the wall

Pranayama: Balanced/Alternating Breath

Meditation:  Prayers for Healing - Thich Nhat Hahn

“May I be peaceful, happy and light in body, and in mind.

May I be safe and free from accidents.

May I be free from anger, unwholesomeness states of mind, fear & worries.

May I know how to look at myself with the eyes of understanding & love.

May I be able to recognize & touch the seeds of joy and happiness in myself. 

May I learn how to nourish myself with joy each day.

May I be able to live fresh, solid & free.

May I not fall into the state of indifference or be caught in the extremes of attachment & aversion.”

Prayers for Healing - John Wesley

Do all the good you can,

by all the means you can,

in all the ways you can, 

in all the places you can,

to all the people you  an,

as long as you ever can.