Seedlings
Look ma, no hands!
This post was written the day before, and scheduled to be posted on this day and this time. It's funny, but it sort of makes me feel like I'm existing in two separate moments: the moment of writing, but also the moment that whatever I write is itself released into the words.
It makes me wonder about all of the separate moments out there, to which I am connected to by my posts. What are people doing as they read this? Picking their nose? Scratching their butt? Spilling coffee?
Do I exist, in a way, in all of those moments?
Reading other people's blogs (which I have been very remiss in since the weather got beauteous), I sometimes bring them up in conversation, bringing that person into my world in a very concrete way. To me, this is yoga in action. Yoga teaches us that we are all connected in energy and in breath. This is just an especially highlighted version of that.
In a day when I am eschewing the internet, recognizing that it has taught me lessons about interconnections, and weaving, and falsities of time keeping.
Seedlings
Imagine all thoughts like seedlings, moving through the air. It doesn't need to travel over wireless signals, it is so much simpler than that. These seedlings plant themselves and, themselves creation, form creation. It's the vrttis, yes?
- Sukhasana (Easy Pose)
- Imagine the arms as wings, breathing the arms up, exhaling the arms down. Repeat 12x
- Baddha Konasana (Cobbler's Pose). Butterfly knees. Pretend you're 8 years old if you have to.
- Tarasana (Star Pose)
- Twists in Star Pose, taking opposite arms to knee or thigh, other hand behind hips. Repeat other side.
- Taking hands behind torso, gentle chest opener
- Taking hands to thighs, shins or feet, forward fold
- Move with breath between steps 6 and 7
- Adho Mukha Svanasana (Downward Facing Dog)
- Tadasana (Mountain Pose)
- Garundasana (Eagle Pose)
- Virabhadrasana III (Warrior III Pose)
- Virabhadrasana I (Warrior I). Pulse back knee towards ground and straighten, warming up legs.
- Virabhadrasana II (Warrior II)
- Parsva Konasana (Side Angle Pose)
- Bind the arms around the front leg, bring the weight onto the back leg
- Lift front leg into Svarga Djivasana (Bird of Paradise Po
se). Feel light in this pose, able to fly - Trikonasana (Triangle Pose)
- Uttihita Tadasana (Five Pointed Star Pose)
- Repeat steps 10-19 on other side
- Tadasana
- Adho Mukha Svanasana (Downward Facing Dog Pose). Jog knees in place to warm up legs and hips. Hold for approximately 6 breaths
- Kapotasana (Pigeon Pose). Taking the hands to either side of the knee, move the torso like a wave over the knee to work the hips open
- Supta Kapotanasana (Reclined Pigeon Pose)
- Repeat steps 22-24
- Adho Mukha Svanasana
- Bakasana (Crow Pose)
- Parsva Bakasana (Side Crow Pose). You don't necessarily need to lift off, but try. Repeat on other side.
- Supta Matsyendrasana (Reclined Twist). Repeat other side.
- Lying onto back, any last leg stretches
- Savasana