Salt Pond Yoga 10/09

This is gonna rock!  Baptste Vinyasa.  Short stop in Crow.   What is relevant now?

Tuesday night at SPY

This is a Sunday 8AM class that builds consistently.  What do you value? Being right or happy.  winniing the arguement or Love?  What is the overriding priority in your life?

If you say love is, then why aren't you always loving? 

When you are not loving can now be seen as the greatest of gifts, showing you exactly where your priorities are off.  Where healing, forgivness, awakening is needed.  Where love is not the top priority, is your compass showing precisely where your spiritual work is.

Tuesday night at Salt Pond Yoga isn't the same without Lauren's joke

Alignment means the charge of the fight in the pose disappears in stability and relaxation.   This smaller class feels like a relaxed, private class.Side crow from standing prayer twist  Excerpts from Seinfeld episode, The Opposite. Repelling girls.  The power of being authentic.Opposite abwork.  Emergency hip pose.  Girdles.  Ray Long.  The body exhibit.  Purpose of alignment.  

Funny- fun Salt Pond Yoga at its best

One of the HOUR-LONG early morning 5:45 am classes at Salt Pond Yoga. Philip is practicing.  Moves well.

Class starts at 4 minutes

Down dog at 6 Minutes. 

Yoga Bootcamp 2

 

HEADS up This is not a yoga class, but the first discussion from the Day Long Yoga Bootcamp I taught in September at ALL That Matters, the largest holistic health center in New England.  This discussion follows the class posted called Bootcamp 1.  You are going to get the entire bootcamp- pretty close.

 

This discussion is about Intuition and what blocks it.  We first discuss the idea a flow from the book Beyond Boredom and Anxiety.  It defines Flow, what we call presence, as the space in-between boredom and anxiety.   His study included athletes, but applied to all of us.  We want to increase our experience of flow or presence because we get a large hit of intuition, and that always feels great.

 

At about 11.5 minutes we begin to draw a map of what blocks us from our intuition- this is pretty fun. The map we draw is called the “red donutâ€? “almost famousâ€? from my Podcast, “A Crash Course in Miracles.â€?  This is pretty fun discussion and expands pretty far.  I hope you enjoy it.  Please look in the iTunes window- a picture of a red Donut in included with this post.   If you are looking for more yoga, it’s coming in the next few posts- there may be one more discussion first- maybe not.  Then I have a backlog of classes to post.  Thanks.

Please note: This is Part 1 of a day-long "Yoga Bootcamp" I taught in September at All That Matters, the largest holistic health center in New England.  You might want to do this with a friend.  It's 2:41:00 in total or you could take parts.  It begins with a talk on Intuition into a Short meditation (7 minutes) which begins at 19:00 and flows into the Baptiste Vinyasa Yoga Class at 26:00. 

00:00 Intro talk about Intuition (19 min)
19:00 Meditation (7 min)
26:00 Baptiste Vinyasa Yoga Class  (2 hrs, 15 Min)

I may post the other 2 parts of this bootcamp next, then I have a backlog of regular classes to post. 

 

Caution: EXPLICIT (a few swear words) otherwise a fun class at SPY (SaltPondYoga.com) and interesting observations on Yogi Gump

90 minutes at salt pond yoga.  Also see podcasts: Quotes from a Course in Miracles and A Crash Course in Miracles

Teaching A Crash Course in Miracles  at Midwest Power Yoga they let me teach a little Yoga, too.  Awesome studio and community!

it's kinda like going into a yoga party

Some discussion and demonstration of Half-Moon Pose and class starts in Down Dog at 4 minutes.  Good jokes during Frog near the end.  Two premises during class:  1) From your birth up to this instant does not exist, and, 2) the world and all information you receive from your senses is meaningless until you give it meaning. 

Live gong near end of class

how to prepare your mind for laughing

Baptiste Power Vinyasa Yoga is amazing.  I rave about it here.  I am Certified by Baron Baptiste.

1. You need to be an experienced beginner.  You will need to know basic yoga poses and safe allignment.
2. Helpful to have a block and strap (or tie is a good substitute). 
3. Heat the room.  Ideally, 90 degrees F and 60% humidity (use a humidifier if possible). 
4. You will sweat alot.  Have water and towels nearby.
5. If you get tired, dizzy, or find your breath has come apart and you are panting, take child pose, regain Ujayii breath, and rejoin the class.
6. As with all exercise programs, you do so at your own risk.
7. To download class, see classes below and right click where it says "pod." Click on "Save Target as."  Put the file where you can find it.

The ultimate book on the practice is Journey into Power, by Baron Baptiste.  This is one of the best selling yoga books ever. This will show every pose and explain safe alignment, the sequence and the philosophy.

For more info...see SaltPondYoga.com

Thanks philip@urso.com  (The picture is Lisa overlooking the Great Barrier Reef.)

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 License and  licenses from ASCAP and BMI.

Took a fun, should i say wild, class from the summer and  as a treat added music, mostly moby

Slow-building vinyasa

What is presence?  Trying out my 15 year old daughter as announcer!

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Challenging, fun, vinyasa with standing splits, seated splits.  Resolution:  I am responsible for my thoughts -the responsibility and the power of what that means.

Intense.  The power of Presence.  The power of decision. What is hard and what is easy?   Ends with 20 minute Yoga Nidra at 1:10. Nidra is said to provide 4 times the resting power of sleep. I pulled the Nidra from the book Yoga Nidra by Swami Satyananda Saraswati.

I had been away assisting Baron at an 8-day yoga bootcamp in Costa Rica.  When I got back we were all ready to go!

Friday afternoon smooth flowing fun class-  active vs passive spirituality

In this class I was substituting for another vinyasa teacher- it's an hour long "hour of power."  When the class saw me come in, they were, well, a little afraid.  So I was a little, well, nice, and maybe a little, um, easier than usual. 

 

A little crazy conversation, down dog alignment detail, and at 3:20 begin in child.

the fundamental error is of identity

"The prize is in the process." 

-Baron Baptiste

 

In yoga class, as in life, we have an experience.  As soon as we name the experience, something happens.  Naming or labeling the experience is like opening a file of our past experiences under that name. Our past judgments rush in and color in the experience, dulling presence.

When this happens, we no longer see reality. All we see is our own past judgments pasted on what we see and even feel. We become disconnected with reality. In a very real sense, we are alone in all the universe. This state, (and one of anxiety*), is what we experience most of the time. 

Sometimes we come across an experience that has no past reference in the mind.  The mind is suddenly stilled.  There is no memory to dull the experience.  This surprising break in the dullness frees us to experience what we are: love's presence.  Usually it feels like awe, like when we cross above treeline on a new mountain peak the first time. 

In this class we practice not naming what we feel.  We simple let the experience be shown to us as it is now.  We practice looking intensely at the reality, the sensation and the breath, instead of the dull experience of yesterday's sensation.

As always, the aim of the class is to expand our awareness of the rush that we are and learn how to regain it when the dullness tries to work its way back.  Once we learn at will how to feel the rush of what we are, the dullness is intolerable.   (*It's not just the dullness, but also the anxiety and the drama, but that's for another class.)

philip

Fun class.  -You loose your presence, hey, you have the next breath.  

2 minute discussion on 40 days to Personal Revolution, then Down Dog and we're off for 90 minutes.  Athletic flow. "Information from your senses is neutral."

This vigorous class includes some finer alignment cues and a short break-out into tripod headstand.   

Challenging the class beyond physical alignment.

Baptiste Power Vinyasa yoga at SPY, a rainy Saturday morning. Coming into alignment physically, mentally, and coming into being.

Baptiste Power Vinyasa Yoga. "I was having an imaginary conversation with a person who wasn't there; I was feeling bad about the way it was going." "The answer is so simple, it eludes us." "An unanticipated wheel is a great joy. You haven't killed it yet with anticipation, dread." "The present is so important because that is where we join. Everything else is solitary confinement."

I'll have my Vinyasa with a frog and a dead bug.  The super-friendly Salt Pond Yoga students go from joyful outbursts to unified ujayii breathing on a cool summer eve. 

This was Bridget's first yoga class ever-  The best day of her life!  So I had Shaun model Sun A and the class loved it.  A fun review.  The actual class begins 7 minutes into the podcast in case you want to skip ahead and you will start in Mountain pose.  The class made good fun of my Jennifer Anniston analogy near the end, so I threatened to hold them in hydrant for a long time. 

This fun class generally follows the flow of Baptiste Power Vinyasa Yoga.  This is the last class I taught at Innerlight Studio after 4 years there.  The quote at the end of class is from A Course in Miracles.