Class on Creation

Setting the theme/tone:  We co-create our reality along with divine purpose.  As we think, feel & act, we paint our world and the whole universe responds.  When we follow our divine intuition, we are creating with the acknowledgement that our creations affect the universe.  When we positively affect the universe it responds positively.  So, here is this feedback loop going on with what we put out and receive and it gains more and more power as it is used.  Ask yourself what is on your mind to see what seeds of thought you are sowing?  If you are thinking about the past, you are wasting your time because you cannot change the past.  If you are thinking about the future, you are also wasting your time because you can’t control the future.  So stop trying to change the past let go of the future and bring yourself into the present moment.  What the next 5 breaths intensely.  What’s going on here guys?  What’s your breath doing?  Is it strong, steady and deep or is it weak, erratic and shallow?  What do you choose?  You can change what you find in the breath and create your own reality.  So lets deepen the breath, make it strong, oojayi breath and take equal lengthened inhales and exhales.  Become intensely aware of what’s on your mind and realize that you can create your reality right here and right now. So dream big!  What do you want?  What’s your intention for tonight’s practice?  Why did you come here to your mat tonight?  Take 10 deep breaths for that purpose, let it settle into the body.

Reading: “The quicker you are in attaching verbal or mental labels to things, people, or situations, the more shallow and lifeless your reality becomes, and the more deadened you become to reality, the miracle of life that continuously unfolds within and around you.” - Eckhart Tolle

Pranayama/Mudra & Mantra:  Yoni mudra for creation overhead while doing Khapalabhati breathing.  Slow it down for 10 oojayi breaths bringing them back to center.  Then take three rounds of om, which is also known to be the sound of Creation.  

Asana: 

Sun A x 3 working upper body, core, then legs respectively

Sun B:

1. For obliques and Hip-openers: side plank with hips raising & lowering to work obliques, right leg goes 90” out then to Chatarunga with a side care, knee goes into the chest then spin the leg around for flipping the dog.  Leg goes up into the air then to low lunge.  From low lunge get deep into the psoas, then go to  crescent lunge & then fly forward to twisted half moon.  
2. For backbends and twists: Eagle, fly your eagle, eagle with a back bend (from crescent), WI, humble warrior with interlaced fingers behind the back, low lunge with a backbend, Camel, Fixed Firm, child’s pose.  Return to thoughts, breath, intention...mind, body, spirit.  Down Dog and hop up to the front to start from Eagle for the left side.
3. For Flow: Scorpion Flow (Three-legged down dog flowing through the serpentine cobra - works the upper body and back).  WII to reverse Warrior to extended side angle to Reverse Triangle to  Triangle (Trikonasana).

-Move to floor for backbends (5 rounds of either bridge or wheel, walk them through 1st & 2nd rounds of backbends, then help them in the last 3 rounds.

-Play time: work on whatever they want to on their own and let them know you are available for help if they want to work on something challenging. 

-Warm-down with Plow & Shoulder Stand

-Finish in supta badokonasana with hands on belly with Yoni Mudra

Meditation/Savasana:

Poem- relates to E. Tolle quote on naming things taking you out of reality.

Lao-Tzu 571?-? B.C.E.

“The Tao that can be told

is not the eternal Tao.

The name that can be named

is not the eternal Name.

The unnamable is the eternally real.

Naming is the origin of all particular themes

Free from desire, you realize the mystery.

Caught in desire, you see only the manifestations.

Yet mystery and manifestations arise from the same source.

This source is called darkness.

Darkness within darkness.

The gateway to all understanding.”

Song- “Can’t help falling in love.” by Ingrid Michaelson