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how to prepare your mind for laughing

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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!  My Odeo Channel (odeo/efc640acfc23675d)>

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 no

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.