Cultivating Capacity: Teaching Yoga at Maui Yoga Path: Kihei, HI: October 16, 2021

Effort and Ease, Yin and Yang, and good friends who live in different places cannot be separated.

Yoga sutra 2.46 describes yoga poses as stirsa and sukha, or aware and relaxed, effortful and easeful. It’s not an an/or deal; it’s both. In daily life these things can seem like two separate things, but in a yoga practice we get to experience a deeper truth; that it is actually inseparable, that they are connected. To see this more clearly is itself a yoga practice, Remembering that one of the many definitions of yoga is connection.

We were middle-roading today. Not a super strong practice, but not loosey-goosey either. The sequence is a balance of effortful and easeful poses, and the play was to find them both in each pose. But the real point was to let these internal knowings bubble into awareness and facilitate a kinder, more satisfying life.

Here’s our sequence:

Swastikasana
Easy side plank

virasana with gomukasana arms
balasana
downdog
low lunge using blocks
Tadasana with gratitude meditation
OM

 Warrior II
Uttithapasvokonasana
Goddess with balance play
Tadasana
Tree

Navasana
Setu Bandha

Apanasana

Reclining Buddha
Impressing the heart 

Savasana adjustments
Savasana

Sit
Namaste