Ah, la, life is so good.
Wake up Yoga would be about using the
silly/ wonderful/ interesting/ curious/ artificial/ brilliant/ idiotic
poses
postures
shapes
of yoga,
to wake up to:
1. Now
2. The miracle of being in a human body
3. The constancies of life on Earth:
Breathing
Gravity
4. The constancies and challenges of the Human Form:
Two legs
High center of gravity
Designed as a column with rotation the simplest action
Place of seeing/ hearing/ smelling high up
Place of balance and strength far down from this place
Power in the middle, small delicate muscles at the edges
5. The miracle of the Human Possibility:
Awareness ( the now again, and more: awareness of our habit, and
awareness of other variations)
Slowing Down to Learn
Learning as its own joy
Joy when we quiet the rest of the nonsense down
Learning quicker and more pleasant when we don't "try hard"
6. Making the impossible possible
The possible easy
The easy elegant
Something like that:
And more about going inside and finding who and how
you are
and
DISCOVERING POSSIBILITIES
rather than the tired old monkey see
highly skilled monkey do
and monkey try to imitate highly skilled monkey
Like this:
Lie on your back.
Feel the sweetness of the floor.
Raise one leg to standing, i.e. foot flat on floor, knee toward sky.
Press into the foot standing and rotate that hip
Keep the other hip on the floor
Push out your belly.
Come back to flat.
Go back and forth, and LEARN
Try breathing in on the hip rotation/ belly out
Try breathing out on the hip rotation/ belly out
Notice the two changes in your spine:rotation and arching
Notice even more: which vertebrae are doing what
Notice: is your neck free
Notice : is your jaw and breathing free
Notice: are your finger soft and free
Notice: which way would your spine like to side bend along the floor
Notice: the way your foot presses into the floor
Notice: the force of your foot against gravity and that moving through your whole spine
Notice: how much fun, delight and learning it is, to Notice
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