Aug 14, Strong Vinyasa

19 people in class to day.

19? 19! A heap, too many, more than I can handle according to my Sunday morning conditioning. On average, these classes are no more than 10 people. Nearly doubling it brings along some thoughts of arrest. “I should put a 15 mat max sign on the door” or “A bakers dozen is our limit, unless you bring that many duck eggs” (I have a sweettooth for waterfowl ovum). What really happened was that I did not feel ready for something new.

When there are this many people, I need to bring something to class that will inspire and spark that long yearned for glow that comes post savasana. I need to show how uniquely ecstatic the practice of strong asana can be. So I quickly trashed the plan I had for the class and started making something else up on the spot.

All because I was thinking that my regular sequencing style, the style that allows me to have a class that is sometimes 3 and sometimes 19, wasn’t good enough. I need to be myself, teach my style and laugh often. It made me think of that proverb about chopping wood and carrying water and then I laughed a bit. Not sure if any of the 19 caught me giggling to myself. So I went back to my original plan, minus the handstand play, not enough wall space.

Opening

Baddhakonasana

Janusirsasana

Novel movements of the wrist

Cat/Cow

Down Doggy

Standing forward fold

Sun Salutation A, lead, two times

Sun Sals of choice for a few minutes

Down Doggy

Three point backbend

Vashitasana

Down Doggy

Warrior 1

Warrior 2

Side Angle

Reverse Warrior

Tree

thats most of the Kali series, we do it a total of 6 times, adding in some other stuff like 3 point planks and chatturangas, grasshopper chatturangas, hindu pushups, hanumanasana, parsvattonasana and some binds.

Backbending series

Jazz Hands Cobra!

Cobra

Cobra with bent knees towards head

Locust

Counterpose either malasana or childs

plow

shoulderstand

savasana