Two exciting events on Saturday March 10

Two exciting events on Saturday March 10

2-3:30 Austin School of Yoga (regular asana class, inversions and forward bends) regular class drop in rate $18.00



3:30-5:30 Special workshop with Anne How to Do Things with Chairs. $40.00


Come learn how chairs improve standing poses, forward bends, backbends, twists, and inversions. We’ll even use them for a few arm balances.

There is Practice FRIDAY.

Yes, I'm back finally and the studio is free. Let's open the hips. Here's a rough sequence from the abbey with a few of my notes to myself in it.

Day four

AMS
Uttansana
Paryankasana on brick, thighs belted, arms holding elbows support if necessary
Dandasana
Parsva Dandasana getting lots of lift and extension
AMVrk, 1 leg both legs, coming down. Work close to wall.
PM hand prep with knife edge of arms pressing down, turn thumbs out
PM full pose three times without block if you can maintain form, first with palms facing then regular.
Sirsasana
Parsva Sirasana keeping lift on opposite side of body, press right leg into left as turning to left, lift left side,
Amvira.
Then we did a series of wide leg hip openers than are a padmasana and beyond prep but also good in their own right to work with as they promote a sattvic state.

One leg in BK on little toe side other leg in UVK.


upavista other leg in MI reduce space between leg and torso and turn to the center. Then worked in two stages of foot moving more away from midline and also away from groin.

Then one leg in virasana other leg in Upa vistak

Then one leg in js and other leg in UVK.

Siddasana

M2 prep, bk and MI leg then padmasana foot and MI leg, draw in like samkatasana not turning.

One leg in uvk other going toward padmasana in stages first lift leg up and hold above thigh, then hold, on thigh then rest on thigh. Each time moving Upavistha leg in closer.

BK in there somewhere.



Bharhadvajasana 2. Compared with Ardha Baddha padmottansana, which is an easier padamasana, B2 because foot is higher.

Then padmasana showed lift of foot on the block then a neat trick of putting leg on blanket and pulling leg up on top by pulling the blanket.

Paschimottansana.

Looked at the work in Parsvakonasana and Parivritta parsvakonasana. Did once each.

Ardha badha paddmottasana, first stage of bringing foot way up and then letting go of the foot.

Sarvangasana, Urdhva padmasana pindasana. Sarvangasana, Halasana.

Setu bandha on brick savasana.


Lengthening out from the groin causes some prior gripping with me. And I realized that the top foot of padmasana is dragging my thigh skin the wrong way. And with left leg I really can’t quite get in the right place.

Nonetheless, the best padmasana sequence I’ve had lately.

Laurie Blakeney is Coming to San Marcos School of Yoga!

Hi Everyone. Please come to Laurie this weekend.

Here's the link

http://www.sanmarcosschoolofyoga.com/

Friday Practice sequence

HEre's a Patricia Sequence I'll lead us through on Friday.


Tuesday
Observe the quality of your mind as defined in chapter 3

AMS
Eka Pada Supta Virasana
• then bring leg into parvanmuktasana.
• Use height you need to keep pelvis level.
Matsyasana
Adho Mukha Svanasana
Urdhva Mukha Svanasana
Vinasya:
Tadasana, UH, Uttanasana Parsvottanasana -AMS Eka Pada - AMS to Parivritta AC to AC to Eka pada AMS to UMuka Svanasana (eka pada sort of in the transition not in the pose) then AMS jump to Utt and to tadasana. Did twice
AMVrk of your choice
PM holding block with palms (THUMBS UP), then regular then palms turned up.
Sirsasana
• Parsva
• Privrtta Eka Pada – feet apart to come up lift from the outer hips
• Virasana…feel like you are dropping back but keep lumbar long
o 1 move the top sternam forward
o Abdomen forward
o Knees back
o Toes down
o 2 move the mid-sternum
o Ab forward
o Knees back
o Toes down

Chair DWI Pada - three stages, Chair back bends are more for the organic body

1. arms pushing the top bar side to lengthen the trunk – arms straight
2. elbows down and pull to coiling the chest
3. Reach underneath chair and get back bar and coil and pull more, have legs extended.
4. Block or rolled sticky mat under tail bone. (Thighs belted and lower hips belted in all of these).
5. Block under the shoulder blades
6.
Chair Dwi Pada
• block underneath upper back, put it where you need it, (flashbacks of prepare yourself).
• bringing hands to front chair legs (strap on chair legs)
• strap on toes or ankles and tail of strap going toward head, as you stretch the legs out the arms walk back the strap behind head, (all of these were pretty brutally long holds)



Eka Pada viparita Dandasana, on chair
• try to come up and down with the top leg in bent position
• arms in stage three (holding back of chair)
• create as much space as possibility between legs really stretch through toes on both legs. (we might have done this twice)
Ustrasana
• Chair at the wall - pelvis against chair to create height and then coil with feet apart then together
• Turn around do drop backs bringing head to chair seat – you can use a blanket or block
.
Dwi Pada from Urdhva Dhanurasana hands on blocks bring head down, then back get height and verticality in chest
Dwi Pada blanket underneath head
Dwi Pada block behind head
Dwi Pada ankles belts feet at wall start with knees at wall and get height then walk elbows out
Kopotasana first with bolster behind legs then reach hands to wall, wall down wall, as much of full pose as possible.
Prone Svanasana
Upright Upavista Konasana
BK on height
Supta BK flat with support under thighs
Svanasana

Change in time for the teacher practice

Hi Everyone, We've decided that 4:15 on Wedneday, right before Devon's hard work class, would work better for most people as an ongoing teacher practice time.


So come wednesdays at 4;!5 and hone your skills.

New Teacher Practice starting tuesday

Teacher’s Practice Hour
Tuesdays 12 Noon to 1pm

Prashant Iyengar famously once said, “What you are teaching is not what they are learning.” Knowing this, our practice in this weekly class will be to work toward clarity and conciseness in body (sarira), speech (vaca) and mind (citta) in teaching Iyengar Yoga asana classes.
We will practice the many skills of being a good teacher, particularly of asana, but ultimately of all yoga. We will use drills we have learned from our teachers and modified or thought up ourselves through our own personal practice, using the exercises to focus awareness on the different “components” of good teaching:
• Demonstration
• Use of language
• Observation
• Correction
• Timing
• Sequencing
• Use of props
• Teaching/expressing the “essence” of the pose in terms of its stable ground and the direction(s) of its expansion
• Weaving an understanding of the philosophy of Yoga Sutra and the Bhagavad Gita into the teaching
• And more
There will also be time to practice combining these separate skills into one event and teaching an entire 6-minute pose or series of poses. This is, after all, the most important part for a teacher. And if we meet every week, there will be plenty of time for you to work on your skills a lot.
Depending on who shows up and at what level you are, we will have one or several groups working on different things in the course of the hour.
The cost of this is $10 per session, to cover the cost of the space. Devon Dederich will serve as general hostess and coordinator, and wrangler of questions.

Clear Spring Studio
Studio: 605 A Copeland St. Austin, TX 78745 Phone: 512-448-0086
Email: Yoga@ClearSpringStudio.Com Web: ClearSpringStudio.com

Backbends from the Manouso Intensive this Friday

Devon will lead us through a backbend series from the recent Manouso birthday intensive. I can't wait. I've been forward bending all week. I know there are backbends in forward bends, but still it will feel good to drop back.

Saturday January 7
The backbend class

Bit of a shoulder drill
Prasarita padottanasa
Parsvottanasana
Two ways
Virabhadrasana I
Sirsasana I
Parsva sirsasana
Parivrtta ekapada sirsasana
Chair Urdhva Dhanurasana
Three ways
Urdhva Dhanurasana (Classical)
Urdhva dhanurasana Classical with partners
Eka Pada Dwi Pada Viparita Dandasana on chair
Ustrasana four times
Kapotasana on chair
Dwi Pada Viparita Dandasana II on chair Variation
Urdhva dhanurasana
Two variants
Dropover Practice.
Sarvangasana on chair
Savasana