TT day 3 & 5

6/5 TT

Today is day 3. I got full day job today, morning TT class and afternoon and evening for Lois class. Kind of exciting acctually, becuase Lois is coming!

John led the class, we are talking about pranayama.

--10 vayu, two are most important. Prana and apana vayu.

--Prana and pranayama.

--Ujai pranayama. Same length of in and out. same from the begining of inhaling till the end of the inhaling. (It's strange, John didn't mention any about the sound of Ujai)

--asana practice, work hard on draw in and extending out with breath.


Day 4 is Anatomy day


6/8 TT

Today begins the 2nd week! John led the class. Today's topic is "open to grace". So two key things in this principle: set foundation and open and soften! John want us to wrap a belt around the bottom of Xphoid process. And try to breath, with the resistance of the belt around your rib cage. Most of ppl will feel the feeling only at front. John want the breath on the sides and also the back!　"Breathe into back body!" In Anusara, back body reflect the Universe. So we have to connect more to our back body to connect the something bigger than you! so begins lots of practice and john talked thro the practice. He used what Richard said in Anatomy class on Sat (which I skip :P),the best practice is dynamic dynamic dynamic and hold. Richard said if your purpose is to create more flexiblity hold the pose 2 sec. or 2 mins. longer or less than this will just tighten up your muscle, you won't get the benefit of working on flexiblity.

-- begins with few practice of movement. standing pose with high or low launge. use the rooting power of the big toe mound pushing to the ground, to activate the back muscle of thigh. push to straighten and pull from big toe mound to bend the front leg.

-- hands on the floor, the foundation. index fingur mound= big toe mound. push down thro this point to draw power into your arm and core. So from table pose, draw from index fingur mound to core to get into down dog.

-- side body long. at all four, helped by partner, side body long, inner body bright, and melting heart. And keep this into downdog.

-- handstand