Now Is The Time To Be In Your Life: Teaching Yoga At Maui Yoga Path: December 11, 2021

Beach yogini.

The very first yoga sutra says that yoga exists right here, right now. This is also the place of purpose and power. While it’s temping to hang out in lower octaves of energy, like doubt and fear, ultimately this depletes our precious time here on planet Earth. The practices of yoga are here not only to raise our awareness of what inspires us, but gives us the strength to step into it.

it is said the days of the week correspond to planetary energy. Saturdays are named after Saturn. Discipline, boundaries. the strength of our inner authority can be called in with the help of aligning with Saturn. We opened our shoulders and our hips and restored our low back where the kidneys (said to hold our fear) and adrenals (which seem to me always can benefit from a rest) are located for the purpose of balancing our body, mind, and spirit right here between heaven and earth.

I got a little lost in my sequence so it was a practice for me not to get off balance and keep going. We did something like this:

Swastikasana
OM

Janushirsasana twist with boat play
Baddha konasana

Tabletop balance play
Forearm plank
Sphinx

Lunge
Twist
Anjayasana with balance play

Goumukasana in virasana
Hasta bandha in virasana, two versions

Downdog
Uttanasana
Uttithatadasana with side stretch
Tadassana

Warrior II
Trikonasana
Uttithatadasana

Apananasana
Padagustasana
Easy supine twist

Savasana with blocks under thighs

Sit
Namaste