Save the Rosendale Theatre!

Today, I volunteered at a benefit for the Rosendale Theatre Collective. This group was formed last year to help preserve a community institution: the Rosendale Theatre. Founded in 1949, this theatre has a lot of history, but is in danger of being sold, and ceasing its existence. Rosendale is a small town, Wikipedia has it in the 6,000s, and it seems like the whole of it has banded together to try and save the theatre. So, for art and community lovers everywhere, this may not be your theatre, but check out the site, and see if it calls on you to donate.

In the meantime, here's a heart opening sequence. Maybe it will inspire you!

Save the Rosendale Theatre!

What community organizations do you like to get involved in? Where do you donate your time? Practicing yoga of action can be more powerful than yoga of asana... what cause calls you to action?

1. Sukhasana (Easy Pose)
   
2. Metta meditation. Meditate thoughts of loving kindess towards self and others. Dedicate your practice to someone else
   
3. Taking hands to knee, open chest in slight backbend. Exhale, cave chest backwards. Move with the breath
   
4. One hand above head, other to floor. Stretch arm above head and over for side stretch. Repeat other side
   
5. Move between alternating side stretches
   
6. Cat/cow in table pose
   
7. Knee-down Tadasana (Mountain Pose)
   
8. Parighasana (Gate Pose)
9. Repeat steps 7 and 8 with other leg
   
10. One armed Ustrasana (Camel Pose)
11. Repeat other side
12. Flow between alternating sides of One-Armed Camel
    
13. Ustrasana. Imagine the chest lifting with each breath, the heart pressing towards the ceiling
    
14. Sarvangasana (Rabbit Pose)
    
15. Adho Mukha Svanasana (Downward Facing Dog)
16. Tadasana
    
17. Warrior lunges: from Tadasana step forward into Virabhadrasana I, hold for a complete breath, and step back to Tadasana. On next step, come forward with opposite leg
    
18. Repeat 10-16x
    
19. Pause in Virabhadrasana I
    
20. Interlock hands behind back for gentle chest opener
    
21. Repeat steps 16-20 with other leg
    
22. Sun Saluations 4-6x. Feel as though the heart is literally leading you through each posture into the next. The upper chest is the first point of movement.
    
23. Vinyasa to floor
    
24. Paripurna Navasana (Upward Boat Pose)
    
25. Ardha Navasana (Half Boat Pose)
    
26. Upavishta Konasana (Seated Wide Angle Pose)
    
27. Matsyendrasana (Seated Twist Pose), repeat other side
    
28. Setu Bandhasana (Bridge Pose)
    
29. Either repeat Setu Bandhasana or move into Urdhva Dhanurasana (Upward Bow Pose)
30. Repeat 2x
    
31. Savasana (Corpse Pose)