thurs 11/6/09

WENT TO 7am PRASHANT CLASS TO OBSERVE. VERY INTERESTING ...ABOUT 65 STUDENTS IN CLASS, 1/2 INDIANS.

SWAS.

TRIK. 2X EACH SIDE- LINK BREATH, MIND AND BODY.

ROPE SIRSASANA OR BADDHA KON

MARICHYASANA I

TRIK. SAME INGREDIENTS AS RECIPIE FOR SIRSASANA and MARICHI I, BUT IN TRIK THE DISH TURNS OUT DIFFERENTLY.

WHAT IS YOUR YOGA ALL ABOUT? ARE YOU TRYING YO LEARN, TO PERFORM, TO PLEASE, TO PRESENT, TO STUDY?

ROPR SIR OR BK

MARICH I.

TRIK.

ROPE SIR OR BK

MARICH I

TRIK

THIS GOES ON AND ON MANY X W/ PHILOSOPHY LECTURES IN B/T POSES TO REST.

MARICHI I -POSTURE ORIGININATES FROM THE SPINE. SPINILIZE THE POSE. RELATE BODY, MIND BREATH TO THE SPINE AND BECOME SPINIZED. ....SPINAL INTENT, POSITION, INCLUSION, LOOK UP AT CEILING WITH EYES & TILT HEAD BACK TO LIFT STERNUM, CHEST.

TRIK- SPINILIZED KRIA

ASANA = SEAT, COMFORTABLE, BALANCED, NOT STRAINED. MAKE YOUR ASANAS A SEAT.

ROPE I STATIC.

ROPES I.

URDVA MUKHA ON ROPES W/ SHINS ON BOLSTER.

ARDA MATSIENDRASANA- BE SPINECENTRIC! INHALE DEEPLY, EXHALE SLOWLY LENGTHENING THE EXHALE. RETAIN THE BREATH, UDDYANA BANDHA, INHALE, ETC.

PRACTICE THIS BREATH IN EVERY POSE. EVEN EASIER ON THR ROPES. THIS IS THE REAL DEAL LIKE WE DID AT CHANCHANIS.

TRIK. QUICK QUICK! IS THERE A DIFFERENT FLAVOR IN THE PREPARATION OF COOKINF THIS "DISH" OF TRIKONASANA? PERHAPS MORE PROFOUND, MORE BENEFIT?

P WONDERS IF ANYONE UNDERSTANDS ANYTHING HE IS SAYING..... A FRIEND SAID I MUST BUY AND READ P'S TRIKONASANA BOOK AND THEN I WOULD UNDERSTAND ABOUT THE DIFFERENT LAYERS OF KRIA AND OTHER CONCEPTS WHICH ARE A CONSTANT THEME AND RATHER MYSTERIOUS. I HAD ONE AT HOME WHICH MICHELLE MOCK HAD GENEROUSLY GIVEN ME BUT WHICH I HAD NOT BROUGHT. I RAN TO DARLING PARVEZ AFTER CLASS AND SNAPPED UP THE LAST ONE HE HAD.

ROPES AGAIN

ARDA MATSIENDRASANA 2X EACH SIDE.

SPINAL, BODY, BREATH, MIND PARTICIPATION!

URDVA MUKHA AT ROPES W/ SHINS ON BOLSTER.

TRIK QUICK! MUST GO QUICKLY FROM POSE TO POSE SO AS NOT TO LOSE THE LINKING. P YELLS LOUDLY AT LAGGARDS.

EXTERNAL DYNAMICS ARE FEET, ANKLE JOINTS, KNEE JOINTS, HIP JOINTS, TORSO, SHOULDER JOINTS, ELBOW JOINTS, WRIST JOINTS, FINGER JOINTS, HEAD, NECK.

BUT WE SHOULD BE FOCUSING ON INTERNAL DYNAMICS.....

THORACIC MAY BE "CHESTISIZED" OR "SPINELIZED" TO CREATE DIFFERENT VERSIONS OF THE POSE.

URDVA MUKHA AT ROPES

MARICHI I - CHESTICIZED VERSION.

BMB AWARENESS! COMPARE TO SPINILIZED VERSION. PRADIPASHA - SUTRA II:33...HOW IS YOUR OUTLOOK, AWARENESS, PERCEPTION DIFFERENT IN ONE AND THE OTHER?

TRIK - WITH INTERNAL AWARENESS! COMPARE SPINAL CENTRIC TO CHEST CENTRIC. SAME SCRIPT BUT DIFFERENT OUTCOME AND EFFECT.ACTOR PERFORMS SCRIPT IN A PLAY, BUT OUTCOME WILL BE DIFFERENT IF ACOUSTICS ARE BAD. ABILITY TO DO ACTIONS MAY VARY OR FAIL TO IMPROVE MUCH BUT OUTCOMES CAN BE VERY DIFFERENT....

HONOR YOUR TEACHER AND BOW AT HIS/HER FEET, BUT DO NOT FAIL TO HONOR THE TEACHER WITHIN, THE INTERNAL TEACHER, JUST AS MUCH.

ROPES AGAIN URDVA MUKHA

BHARADVAJASANA I

P USES MANY METAPHORS REGARDING PARENTS TEACHING CHILDREN WHICH IS APPROPRIATE BECAUSE ALTHOUGH I'M OLD IN YEARS, I AM LIKE A LITTLE CHILD IN THIS PRACTICE ANS I'M SURE OTHERS FEEL THE SAME.

TRIK QUICK!

WHAT DOES AWE MEAN? CAN BE AWFUL OR AWESOME. WHICH WILL YOUR POSE BE?

ROPES I

PARIVRITTA UPAVISTA KONASANA- SEE HOW POSE CAN CHANGE FROM CHEST MINDED TO SPINE MINDED?

URDVA MUKHA AT ROPES.

TRIK QUICK!

ARDA MATSIENDRASANA.

CLASS TEACHES YOU WHAT AHD HOW BUT YOU MUST LEARN ON YOUR OWN TO GO BEYOND THIS.

IT OCCURS TO ME I DON'T TRUST MY INTERNAL TEACHER AND THE THOUGHT OF RETURNING HOME TO MY SAD LITTLE PERSONAL PRACTICE IS GRIM. THIS IS TRULY IYENGAR YOGA PARADISE. THERE IS THE ENERGY OF SO MANY DEDICATED PRACTITIONERS, THE EXAMPLE OF THE IYENGARS THEMSELVES, THE STUDIO WITH ALL ITS PROPS.... THE WONDERFUL BARS ON THE WINDIWS, THE PILARS, AND SO MANY DIFFERENT BENCHES AND STOOLS OF ALL SIZES AND SHAPES! YOU CAN PICK UP NEW WAYS OF WORKING JUST BY OBSERVING OTHERS IN PRACTICE SESSIONS. AN ITALIEN WOMAN NAMED BRUNA HELPED ME TODAY AT THE ROPES TO DO TRIK WITH A ROPE AT THE HEAD OF THE FEMUR AND A BLOCK BEHIND THE BACK HEEL. FROM THERE WE WENT TO PARIVRITTA AND ARDA CHANDRASANA USUNG THE ROPE WALL.

SETU BANDHA WITH A BRICK

SAVASANA THIS WAS A VERY TYRING CLASS. VERT PRASHANR.

I ALSO OBSERVED THE MEDICAL CLASS AND WISHED I COULD BE PUT IN SOME OF THE POSES B/C THEY LOOKED SO RELAXING. MANY WERE ONES LOIS TAUGHT US OR SHOWED IN HER BOOKS. MANY COULD NOT BE DONE WITHOUT ALL THE PROPS AT RIMYI.

WENT TO PRANAYAMA WHICH WAS BORING AND ONLY LASTED 45 MINUTES. WHAT A DISAPPOINTMENT. FIRST-TIMERS AT RIMYI ARE STUCK IN THE MICKEY MOUSE CLASS.

WENT TO TEA AND TO VIEW APT # 10 IN THE TOWER. MET SEVERAL MORE WOMEN WHO ARE MAKING ALL SORTS OF PLANS TO SHOP, GO ON LITTLE SIDE TRIPS OR HAVE POT LUCKS.

I WAS A MONSTER TO BE PETTY OVER THE STUPID PINEAPPLE! MY ROOM-MATES HAVE HEARTS OF GOLD! FRANSCOISE GAVE ME A WHOLE BOX OF INCENSE FEOM COCHIN. MARY GAVE ME A BEAUTIFUL SARONG LIKE THE ONES SHE AND EDDIE WEAR WHICH CAN ONLY BE BOUGHT IN SOUTHERN INDIA, AND SOME VERY EXPENSIVE OLIVES SHE WAS HIDING. I SHARED MY CHEESE WITH EVERYONE AND WE HAD A SNACK OF OLIVES, FINNISH CRACKLERS, AND CHEESE FOR OUR AFTER CLASS SNACK TONIGHT. WE WERE VERY JOLLY! WITHOUT FRIENDS THIS PLACE WOULD BE BLEAK INDEED. AND ON TOP OF THAT THE LANDLORD REPLACED OUR BROKRN DOWN WASHING MACHINE WITH A BRAND NEW ONE AND IS SENDING A MAN TO NFIX THE LEAK IN MY BATHROOM TOMORROW. GOODIE.

TOMORROW AT 2pm I HAVE HIRED THE BEST MASSUSE TO PUNE TO COME TO THE APT AND GIVE ME A MASSAGE. ONLY 20.00 OR 500 RUPEES FOR AN HOUR. GOT HER NAME FROM THE LADIES UPSTAIRS.

GOOD NIGHT. I'M DEAD TIRED. LEEANE