Merry and Bright: Teaching Christmas Eve Day Yoga at Maui Yoga Path: December 24, 2021

May. your yoga be merry and bright!

There is no way we will have white Christmas on Maui, but there is every possibility of our day to be merry and bright. Even the yoga sutras extoll the virtues of these alignments: maitri, meaning friendly, and ananda which translates bliss.

These beach classes are in many ways beginning yoga; we don’t get too wild and crazy, but yoga, no matter what level promotes wellness within. We played with these shapes, keeping an eye on our hearts staying merry and bright, and letting this be our primary alignments while we stretches, twisted and balanced.

Here is our sequence:

Swastikasasana
Uttithaswastikasana

Marichiasana
Balasana with blocks

Lunge with blocks
Lunge twist with blocks
Anjayasana with blocks

 Prasarita pada tadasana with calf raises

 Parsvatadasana with Warrior III play

Tadasana
OM

 Warrior II
Tree pose with Star play

gomukasana arms in virasana

Apansanasa
Supine pada gustasana
Eye of the needle

Supine star
Supine uttithatadasana

Savasana

Sit
Namaste