Podcast #135 - Aparigraha and St Francis

One of the five yamas (restraints) - which are practices recommended for practitioners of yoga - Aparigraha is the practice of non-grasping. This could be said in many ways... simplicity, not taking too much, not hoarding wealth or even the Buddhist AND Franciscan practices of non-possession. 

The phyiscal practice focuses mainly on twisting. In particular, opening the outer hip/it band area in order to access certain types of twists. The focal asana here is eka pada koundinyasana (the twisty one) but you can always skip whatever you need to to make the practice right for you.

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TRANSCRIPT:
OM, OM, OM

Lokah Samastah Sukhino Bhavantu
May all beings everywhere, be happy and free and may the thoughts words and actions of my own life, contribute in some way, to that happiness and to that freedom for all.
Make me an instrument, for thy will.
not mine, but thine be done.
Free me from anger jealousy and fear.
Fill my heart with joy and compassion.
OM.

03:23

You know that second part, it's some it's kind of sharons, you know, homage to the St. Francis prayer and the St. Francis prayer is, you know, make me an instrument of peace, where there is hatred. Let me sow love. Whether there's injury pardon, where there is doubt, faith, Where there is despair hope where there is darkness light. (That sounds familiar )where there is sadness. Joy Grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console to be understood as to understand to be loved as to love for it is in giving that we receive it is in pardoning that we are parted is in dying.

04:22

(And then Sharon has this in parentheses ‘to the self ‘ that we are born into eternal life. And, you know, I'm not, I'm not Catholic, I'm not in these sort of Christian, but I do really, like, St. Francis, you know, of course, starting with is love for the animals and his recognition, that, you know, all beings are part of this, you know, interconnected ecosystem that, that we live on and, and that we don't necessarily sit above or below any, any living being.

05:11

In fact, well, let me get to that in a second. So, as so, I sort of knew when we got to a party girl, ha, right? A potty graha is the fifth Yamaha. So the fifth restraint that is recommended for practice, if one is interested in attaining, the goal of yoga.

05:34

So, a party got oh, wait, wait. We gotta make it official. Hang on up hot.

05:49

Better. Just chant these things. I think. So, a party. Graham means not grasping all around, not grasping everywhere, and, or you could just say, like, not grasping, or not hoarding. Not taking too much, etc, like that. So I knew when the topic came up, I was sort of inspired this time around that I wanted to talk about Saint Francis and in particular, I was interested in sharing with you all something about his practice of non-possession.

06:29

So I was, you know, preparing for class and you know, wanted to do my research, you know, there's there's a particular sort of passage in, you know, that. Is that it it goes something like this. It's like when when we have possessions, when we have possessions we need laws and guns to defend them.

06:59

And I had wanted to, you know, construct my talk for today around that quote but I also wanted like a little more context just to make sure that I was getting the context, right? And then I could as accurately as possible, shared his ideas if not possession. Now, say Francis was a monk, right?

07:23

And so he really practiced not possessed in this. He like, you know, renounced his family wells. You know, renounced his inheritance. He, you know, had like itchy scratchy horse robe and like a begging bowl and like that's, you know, that's it. And he also made his monasteries or you know, his, his thing was to make the monasteries be non-hierarchical.

07:50

So you really tried to kind of keep everybody as equal as possible in his monetary of monetary system. Well, sort of okay monastery system and, you know, there are parallels to this idea in some of the trees traditions that come out of yoga as well, like who does them and even Bhagavad Gita and and Hinduism, where, you know, where?

08:20

If you're a monk, of course, like non-possession. Practicing non-possession is kind of somewhat obvious. You don't own anything. Everything is given to you. You know, you beg for your food. And, you know, everything is given to you, what you have. But there's also, you know, both in, you know, Buddhist tradition.

08:45

And in the Hindu understanding is like, there's also people who practice but who are living in the world, right? So called householders. So they need a way to practice to and you know, it seems that the recommendation is to you know simplify where possible, you know, not take more than you need, not hoard resources to give away resources and be helpful in spreading resources.

09:23

About if you have more than you need you can share those resources and also to kind of practice a like a mental version of non-possession. Meaning like the acknowledgment that nothing is is really permanently mine. Like even if you even if you paid for it, right? Even if you needed for your new iPhone or like I bought a new harmonium, right?

09:53

It it's only really temporarily in my possession. Even if I gave resources to get it, it's either, you know, either it's gonna break or maybe someone steals it or maybe, you know something. Something will eventually happen that it is no longer in my possession. So it's sort of a temporary relationship between me and my harmony and more in my I don't know iPhone or whatever you can interchange.

10:22

Any any object here or like I will die and then it's not my harmony anywhere. But you see it's acknowledgment that like, there's an impermanence to, to everything, even the things we call mine, right? So anyway, that was going to be my, that was going to be my talk, right?

10:43

And then when I was looking online and like looking for resources to kind of like back up my opinion, I was researching that quote and like the third or fourth, you know Googlehead. They came up for the quote, you know, when we have possessions we need laws and and guns to defend them wasn't an entire essay of someone arguing.

11:15

That that quote, that that a bunch of, you know, bunch of weirdos are like misinterpreting this Saint Francis quote to mean that he was like and anarchist in a communist and this and that well, you know, technically, he was like, he didn't, you know, he believed in, you know, higher law versus, you know, human laws and he believed in total, you know, hierarchyless leadership.

11:43

So, you know, kind of. But anyway he makes the this person goes on to make this argument that essentially inverts the whole idea of non-possessiveness and he sort of makes this argument sort of for the opposite like the exact opposite of my understanding of them. And so I found this to be so interesting and you know at first like my gut reaction was like oh it's like a gut punch like devastating that people would misunderstand the spiritual teaching.

12:22

So hardcore, so then but then it also made me think like, okay, you know, where's the grasping here, right? Is there a part of me that grasps at other people's ideas or twists and turns them in order to bolster my own worldview? Right? It to what extent and MI reaching and grasping and holding on to misunderstandings in order to kind of pump up my scent, my own sense of being right about, you know, whatever it is.

13:07

So, so I I found that to be a very interesting journey to go on in terms of looking at other ways that grasping may sneak in, in terms of our thoughts and knowledge and intellect as well as things. Right. So there you have it. Let's come into downward, dog.
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Body.

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There. Yay.

02:47

Some more John.

04:25

When the one is established in practicing non-grasping the why had tunked up the y of verbs to my literally means first comes, you know, illuminated in the mind. So, so John might could mean literal birth or it could mean something like knowledge of, you know how things coming in, IP the birth of death cycle, something about the nature of.

05:13

So it's something about practicing not grasp gives rides to understanding cause and effect. Well, I don't that knowledge has not been illuminated yet in my mind, so I still practicing the first part a paragraph trying not to pass and noticing, where in my life grasping still comes up in the evening, even in the mind where grasping to some idea of myself or some outcome that I want for etc, right?

05:54

I was really hoping today to talk about Saint Francis. I actually I'm not happy. I love seeing Francis and see one of the teachings of Saint Francis. Was this idea of non-pos that we don't actually own anything. And this also comes up in many of the trends that the traditions that have come out of yoga and out of the east, like the Buddhist tradition.

06:23

There's also this idea that, you know, well, if you're a monk, if you're safe Francis, you really don't own anything for now, it's your family as well. And you're, you know, you have a course, you know, robe and you have a bowl eventful, right? That's kind of it. But if you are, you know, so if you're a monk, then non-possession is a very obvious.

06:49

But even in the yogurt type suit, even in Barbadia things like that. There's an idea that even as a, you know, so-called householder as someone who moves through the world, there's society that you can still practice, non-possession meaning like the acknowledgment, that everything we have is really only temporarily art as in.

07:15

It can be removed from us kind of at a moment including a, you know, are sell for a loved ones or you know, life is kind of if you're not like. So I did want to bring up this. This wonderful idea from Saint Francis. And as I was looking at this.

07:34

So I wanted to sort of base the today's experience on this idea and the quote that I was trying to research to see if I could find a little more context to it. The quote is when we have things, when we have possessions, we then need laws and guns to defend them, right?

07:54

And I wanted to find a little bit more context because I like the because I liked that as a starting point now. Well I was researching this quote trying to find more context to it so I could maybe there's a longer passage that it's a part of etc, one of the like, maybe the third or fourth hit on my Google search.

08:21

Was someone essentially taking this same quote that I have hoped to use for non-grassing and making the absolute opposite argument saying that in fact, that quote doesn't mean that we should live to be an obedient non-hierarchically and not have position, but it's fact that means the opposite means we should have, you know, laws be done stupid, just or whatever.

08:51

And it's and so then the fact that when I was trying to find more support for, you know, for the idea that I had, I wanted more context to make sure I was correct in my energy standing about this quote, the fact that I stopped someone making the opposite argument of what I thought it meant by still think it means that I think this is a misinterpretation, but it may be think about grasping in a different way, like, are there waves in which I and grasping to incorrect reading of certain contexts?

09:33

Or am I taking or like am I also taking certain teachers or readings out of context to suit my own purpose, right? And it distorting the message for my own, you know, ideas and reasons and to support my own inner, you know, virtue or whatever. Whatever that. So anyway, that's a way that I thought.

10:02

Oh, I wasn't thinking about grasping this way before, but now I'm also thinking about crossing in terms of misusing other people's ideas for my own hurting for my own purposes. So if something to think about let's come forward to handsome, need will press back to download facing.

10:28

Is quite possible that I am, you know, and I try to be mindful of that even when I close things on special media but not yet, whatever. The face that actually is kind of a pet peeve of minus like when you read Instagram posts and the quote is like, kind of like easy to listen to for free at work, easy to read.

10:52

Because company said it all in one little book. So when I, when I do Instagram, quote posts, it's usually from something, I'm actually like reading the full texting because I'm so kind of maybe overly worried about but just be careful when you're reading Instagram posts. You know, a lot of things can get, okay, walk with you forward towards the hands and fold forward over the legs.

11:43

Oh, there it is. I'll get it together. Don't worry.

11:53

Okay. Go ahead and separate the feet. Bend the knees come into a deep squatting position with the hands together at the center of the chest.

12:22

To bring the hands down to the floor, raise the hips up and fold forward over the legs.

12:33

Bring the hands to the waist lift all the way up, right? To a standing position and exhale arms. Alongside the body good legs together. Feet together preparing now for sunsolutions through another scar. Exhale! A full breath out with your inhale. Reach the arms up overhead. Exhale, fold all the way forward.

12:59

Over both legs and inhale, halfway lift to prepare. Exhale, hop, inhale of producing. Epsilon downward about region. Breathe out one. Inhale exclude. Exhale, breathe them. Breathe out for in and sales rep and he'll have exhale, stand. And I still need these arms, but I can't give any reach of hands pressed together and exhale fold forward hands to the floor.

14:01

Inhale, look forward. Exhale hop. Stepper. Walk back, get a runga. Oh Heather. Hi, inhale upward dog. Exhale downward, dog highlight. Yeah, as 0 each and in a next video. Next feel,

14:39

Stayed in the and and at seal and you know, VHF has and I feel old if you don't have a way to add a seal up, inhale reduce it up as sealed. Downward facing. Now, the next field feed out into these forever.

15:38

Exhale, you'll stand up for each other. X. Our video needs reached the arms out of the 2000. Exhale hands. And you don't have one exhale and you don't have and still, it feels that right before you out of steel. I have some stuff. Inhale and exhale downward up, inhale step on that foot your address.

16:25

I'm still step inhale and I feel we're driving again. Both sides.

16:47

And you know how very easy and yellow footsteps for hairdressing one. Exhale hands down. Step back the video of our dog. Exhale downward. Breathe, breathe out. And Alex, you.

17:22

Exhale here. These inhale hammer step feet to hands. Exhale fold forward. Inhale deep. We bend the knees. Reach the arms up. Exhale stand up release the arms. Inhale bend knees, reach arms up. Exhale hands to the earth folding forward. Inhale look forward. Exhale check that angle, inhale upward facing dog.

18:01

Exhale downward facing dog. Inhale, step the right foot forward. Wore your one bureau of drawing, exhale, open hips and arms to the side of your drawing. Inhale straighten, the right leg, exhale. Reach to the right for triangle. Place the right hand down. Reach the left arm of breathus breathe out.

18:28

Inhale exhale to inhale. Exhale three. Inhale, exhale. Inhale, exhale, inhale, lift all the way up, right to a standing position. Exhale, bend the right knee or your two breathing, breathe out. One inhale. Exhale to inhale. Exhale. Three breathing and breathe out for. Inhale, exhale, inhale straighten the right leg.

19:18

Exhale, bend the right knee, place the right hand outside of the right foot. Reach the left arm all the way over the left ear, extended side angle, breathe then, breathe out one, right? Inhale, exhale to breathe and breathe out. Three in here. Exhale for in here. Exhale, inhale, both hands to the floor, separate into a plank.

19:53

Exhale chaturanga, inhale upward facing, dog. Exhale downward facing dog, inhale left foot steps forward view of draw. So no one. Exhale, open to the side. Inhale straight and left leg. Exhale, reach to the left for triangle trigunasana inhale. Exhale, inhale, exhale to breathe in. Breathe out three. Inhale, exhale for breathing, breathe out.

20:39

Inhale, stand all the way up, right? Exhale, bend left knee. Very soon at two inhale. Exhale. Inhale, exhale to breathe and read out three in here. Exhale for breathing and breathe out. Inhale, straight and left leg. Exhale! Bend left knee, place left hand. Outside of left foot. Reach right.

21:15

Arm over, right ear. Extended side, angle, breathing, breathe out. One, inhale. Exhale to inhale. Axial. Three, breathe. Breathe out for in here, exhale, inhale, place both hands down step right into a plank. Exhale chaturanga, inhale upward facing, dog. Exhale downward. Facing dog. I was thinking about this idea of drawing boundaries about around things as I was falling asleep and how anytime we are sort of putting boundaries around anything we suddenly have to defend that thing, right?

22:09

And even like the shape of the yoga mat was just reminding me of the sort of shape of the way that we sort of carve out, you know, property ownership, land ownership, and do you ever do you ever get really possessive about your spot in the over room? Like, I used to be really specific about my spot.

22:28

And if I walked in, and someone was already in my spot, that was like, upsetting to me, I would even come to class like half an hour early so that I could sit in my spot for that whole time. Inhale, step the right foot forward, exhale lower the left, knee down.

22:49

Inhale, reach the arms up. Exhale hands your prayer, twist to the right side. Hook, your left arm outside of your right leg. Now, optional to tuck the left toes under lift, the left knee up for standing spinal twist. I'm not saying you can't have a preference, you can, of course, have a preference for where you want to be in the yoga room.

23:10

But then where, where do you, where do you back off of that preference? And just not, you know, not just like defend it either internally or externally. Inhale, both hands to the floor. Exhale, start to extend the front leg. You can move the back foot a little bit in to get the back heel down, but don't try not to overdo it.

23:34

Try not to hugely shorten the stance here. Inhale a breath look forward. Exhale fold forward. Head goes down towards the right leg and breathe out. One inhale. Exhale to inhale. Exhale. Three inhale. Exhale inhale, exhale good inhale look forward. Now, keep the overall shape of the legs, the same walk.

24:14

The hands as far forward of the front foot as you possibly can. And then for this variation, push your hands forward against the floor or blocks. If you like almost like how in downward dog were like pushing the floor away from us using the hands, two more breaths. Breathe, read out.

24:44

Good walk, the hands back either side of the right foot. Now bring start to heal to the right foot a little to the right and bring your right hand inside of your right foot. Turn the right toes just to couple of degrees to the right, not too much and then go ahead and straighten the right leg again.

25:03

But with both hands staying on the inside of the right foot and again, you use that. Imagine you're like pushing against the floor to take the hips up and back even more three. Good. Especially that right hip lift the right hip up and back. Yeah, that's right. I know if it's a little unusual, it's a little out of the norm.

25:26

Good bends, the right knee. Now take the right leg up and back like a down, dog. Splits great leg. I thought I said it wrong at first, it happens, you know, and now step the right foot all the way outside of the left hand. So cross it all the way over.

25:48

Yeah. All the way over. Yes, that's it. And then see about taking the hips back so much that you're straightening the right leg. Now you could even go so far as to flex the right foot and kind of kick the pinky toe side of the right foot down into the floor.

26:08

Think of taking the hips up and back, keep pushing the hips up and back.

26:18

Good. Bend the right knee. Step all the way back downward facing dog. Okay? Inhale, step the left foot forward between the hands. Exhale lower, the right knee down to touch the floor. Inhale, reach the arms up. Exhale hands your prayer, twist to the left side as an option. You could raise the back, knee up standing spinal twists.

26:44

One to breathe breathe out through. Keep straightening the back leg. Breathe out in there. Exhale! Inhale hands to the floor, framing, the front foot, Exhale, starches, straighten, the left leg. If you're adjusting the back foot just be mindful, not to shorten the stance so so much and then fold forward.

27:14

Good reason to breathe out. Inhale, egg steel to breathe and read out three. Inhale, exhale read breathe out. Good. Lift the head in the chest walk, the hands as far forward, rid of the left foot as possible and then you're pushing the hands forward against the floor. Almost like down, dog.

27:48

In the upper body, keep lifting the hips up and back to breathe. In breathe out three. Inhale, exhale for inhale, exhale good. Walk. The hands back. Either side of the left foot. Now heel to the left foot a little to the left and bring the left hand to the inside of the left foot.

28:17

Turn the left toes out slightly. And then again, take the take the hips up and back as much as you can, you know, even as I'm listening to myself, I can hear Sharon's voice in my head saying, you know, don't say, take in class, take this post, take your block take because we, we already, most of us, take enough, right?

28:41

And then it becomes, then even sort of subliminally, it's becomes about grasping, even within the awesome class. So I'm gonna try not to say that for the rest of the class. You'll probably catch me slipping up, but I will try and celeste me. Good lift, the left leg up and back down dog.

29:06

Splits, mm-hmm. Now, bring the left foot all the way across to the outside of the right hand, and then work to straighten. The left leg. You could even flex the left foot and kind of kick. The pinky toes side of the foot down into the floor, even as you're lifting the hips up and back quite a bit.

29:36

Mmm, and with your inhale. Bend left knee. Exhale, step back downward facing dog. Inhale step right foot forward your bradrosinone. One more year. One, exhale straighten the right leg, bring the right arm, down alongside the body, inhale, left arm reaches up, exhale, reach all the way forward and down for rotated.

30:08

Triangle, prior to trichinosa left hand to the outside of right foot, right? Arm reaches up one, that's it. Push weight into the back foot, especially strong and straight back. Three in here. Exhale. Breathe in and breathe out. Inhale frame, the front foot with both hands. And then tucking the left knee all the way to the right side of the right foot, coming to sit down for seated, spinal twist, inhale, left arm reaches up.

30:44

Exhale, twist to the right side. Breathe in. Breathe out one. Inhale exhale to inhale. Exhale. Three. Inhale, exhale for inhale, exhale inhale, turn to face. Front. Exhale, counter twists, inhale, turn to face front. We'll set up for goal, mucus enough. So right knee over the left, knee feet out to opposite sides.

31:28

If this is bothering the knees, you could optionally lay on the back and hold on to your feet. Like so kind of pulling the feet away from one another, so hold on, to the tops of the feet, are the toes. Imagine you're reaching the chin forward of the knees, the point of the chin reaching forward.

31:46

Yeah, that's it. And if you're if you're on your back, there's a way that you can almost like pull on the feet to get into the hips. So you feel it, you have great.

32:01

Inhaling lift all the way up, right? We're going to twist to the right. Keep the legs. The same start to twist. So initially, my left, forearm is pushing against my right leg. My right hand is behind my back and those two contact points are helping me to twist. Now, if you would, like, you could reach the right arm all the way around behind and try to catch your right toe.

32:29

Yeah, you're right hand to your right toe and you could catch your left into your left toe. And then you could pull yourself even more into the twists.

32:43

But inhaling turn to face forward. Exhaling. Counter twist. Inhale, turn the face forward if you'd like to move through low loss and across the ankles, press the hands down to lift up. Otherwise you can make your way back to downward dog. Anyway you like yes, inhale left foot steps forward view of a drawn one.

33:14

Exhale straight and left leg left arm down alongside the body. Good. As you reach the right arm up and a little bit back, see that you can press the right foot. Even more firmly down into the floor and then try to keep that weightiness in the back foot. Even as you reach the right arm forward and down.

33:35

But left arm up one breathe, breathe out. Mm-hmm. Strong and straight back leg. Three in exhale. In exhale, good. Inhale, both hands to the floor. Exhale. Step into the seated. Spinal twist. So right, knee. All the way to left side of left foot. Inhale, right arm reaches up. Exhale, twist to the left side, inhale, Artemis, Androsina, regular first, exhale in x to in axial.

34:21

Three in exhale for inhale, exhale, inhale, face front. Exhale to counter twists. Inhale, face front, stacking up the knees. Go mucusana, that's it. So again, you could lay on your back, if it's bothersome to your knees, go ahead and hold on to the seat or the toes and fold forward reach forward in exhale, in

35:09

And inhaling lift all the way up. Right now, twist to the left, keep the legs. The same left hand on the floor, behind the back, and right for our impressing into left leg to help with the twists, and then you have the option, you could you could try to work into the bind.

35:26

So reaching the back arm around for the for the left toes it's a bit of a pretzel situation. It's hard to tell what's right in what's left in this situation and then by pulling on the toes or the feet. Turn a little bit deeper into it and inhaling. Turn to face front.

35:47

Exhale, little counter twists. Inhale, turn the face front. So if you would like to practice low lasana, then the knees into the chest and cross the ankles and make your way back. Otherwise, coming back into downward, dog. Any, any Monday way that you would like to?

36:11

Okay. Walk the feet, two to three inches closer to the hands. That's not very much. That's only a very small amount. Lift the right leg up and back behind you. And then bring the right knee all the way across to the left. Upper arm left. Upper arm, try to touch as high up on the left, upper arm as possible.

36:39

And then bend the elbows and see if you could come into the arm balance. A capada connection. Two, three. I can't remember. There's so many of them. I can't remember which one is which? Yeah. Anything you like with your legs? Any variation for today, that's the advantage of having substitute teacher.

37:09

Okay, step all the way back downward, dog. If I I'm joking, of course you don't something is not easy. No matter how long you've been doing this. Something is like, kind of fun. Okay? If each of the left leg up and bats, mmm, bring the left knee, all the way up to the right.

37:31

Upper arm, try to take, try to have the knee even higher up than the elbow. Then the point of the elbow and then start to shift the weight forward into the hands to balance. If you can free up that back foot then you can go ahead and take any.

37:49

You can go ahead and move into any variation with the legs that you happen to be working on. Yeah. Nice or multiple variations. Beautiful. Yeah, you do you love it? Okay, make sure way back downward facing dog. Great. Knees to the floor, will practice inversions next. So you, you're welcome to come into headstand and stay in headstand for the full five minutes.

38:23

Otherwise, if you'd like to start with a little handstand or a little forum stand and then you could always finish up your time and headstand as you like in other words, yogi's choice. As we used to say, back in the day, if you need some assistance or you just need some guidance suggestions and assists, whatever you need, just ring your call button and I'll make my way over with magazines and peanuts.

38:47

No.

39:13

I wasn't exactly joking. When I said that subbing is still challenging even after so many years of teaching. Right. But I still do it because I serve love. I serve love of course, being able to give other teachers the freedom to have a day off or if they need rest need to rest, if they're not feeling well.

39:37

So I love having that opportunity but it it is interesting because you do come up against people's expectations, right? They're walking in expecting their favorite teacher thinking that they have an idea of how they want their yoga class to go. And then they see your face. And you can almost just see the disappointment arise at times.

40:03

And that, that experience is also, you know, it's good to stay humble. It's good to be, you know, to have those experiences. And it also reminds me about softening my expectations in in the classes that I'm taking and in the practices I'm doing as well. So, you know, it can be good to check in with our with, even the ways that grasping shows up in the practice, as far as what we expect to gain from the practice, what we expect to get from the practice, we expect to see and be seen by our favorite teacher.

41:12

And,

41:20

And and so, you know, I always have to take care that my mind doesn't go so far down that road that I end up at the conclusion that I should have no preferences at all. That's not where we're going. So if you went that way, make a u-turn backtrack and at the fork in the row, come back.

41:47

Come back. You know, the idea is more noticing those preferences, noticing those tendencies and then like, and then like being okay, anyway? Or maybe even being curious about it.

42:14

Just about one more minute. If you came down to rest perfectly fine, if you're up, stay up in it.

42:46

And then for those that are still working, start to make your way into childs.

43:17

Downward facing dog. Odd homogor.

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Inhale to playing. Exhale. Chaturanga, inhale upward facing, exhale downward, facing inhale to plank, exhale, lower all the way to the floor, bring the arms. Alongside the body palms of hands facing up to the ceiling with it. Inhale, lift up, head chest legs for shalavasana one.

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Exhaling slowly release down.

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Bend the knees, reach back, get, hold of the ankle, inhaling lift on up, head chest and knees.

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Exhaling slowly release down.

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Again, then both knees, reach back. Catch. Hold of the ankles. Inhale lift up on your asana.

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And exhale release down Place hands, either side of chest. Inhale lift forward enough into upward dog. Exhale, go back down. We're done. Lift the heels high up, bend the knees look forward. Past the hands and either hop or walk all the way through to sit down and lay down on the back.

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Feed on the floor, lift the hips up interlace the hands together. Behind the back. Extend the arms, rock the shoulders a little bit more underneath.

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Separate the hands, release. The back to the floor, you know, how we do three wheels, five breath seat. You can, you know, if you're needing today to continue with half wheel or or mix half wheels and full wheels, you can do. But three of something, five breaths each.

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No rush when you are finished hugging these in so that I know when we're all finished, but no rush. If you still have some backending to do, do it?

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Bringing both meals to the left side, you could eagle wrap your legs. If you like needs to the left to twist,

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So I know we don't usually do it this way, but just for a few breaths, you know, usually we like anchor the legs down first, even if the shoulder is up, and we're kind of breathing the shoulder to the floor, but just to feel what happens when you do the other way.

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So let the legs lift up a little bit anchor, the shoulder down and then try to keep the shoulder down as you let the weight of the legs, go towards the left side even if they're not all the way down.

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And then go back to the original way. Legs all the way down even if the shoulder comes up. Or if, if both stay down, then you've got nothing to worry about.

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And bring the knees up to the center. Let's go to the other side. So the the way that we typically set this up is that we anchor the weight of the legs down first, right? So go ahead and do that. Even if it means you have to kind of lift and turn the the chest a little bit, and then allowing gravity to kind of affect the weight of the left shoulder moving towards the floor.

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But now again, just to experience a slightly different configuration just to feel what that different twist feels like or what it feels like to have a different anchor to the floor. Go ahead and let the weight of the legs lift up a little, so that you can press the left shoulder blade against the floor.

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And then let the way that let gravity kind of move the legs in the direction of the floor. Even if they're not touching kind of changes, the experience of the twist in there. All right, and then go back to the original way. The best way. No, I'm kidding. Yes, it is better for a number of reasons but it is sometimes good to experience those different those chain.

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How that changes the experience of the twisting?

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Could bring the knees all the way up to the center. Unwrap the legs. If they were wrapped place, the left foot on, on the floor and lift, the right foot off the floor. Now I placed a belt near everyone that was in the room and if I could come and place a belt near all of you who are joining virtually, I would and I do apologize for not having set you all up earlier.

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If you're tuning in on zoom but we've all got a belt and it's got a little loop in it. Loop that loop loop the loop loop that loop around the right foot. But then, we're going to hold it in a slightly different way than the use. Oh, we need a slightly bit bigger loop here.

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Hang on, feed your whole hand through the loop, not through through, Hang on, let your hand go in and then kind of link your thumb around one side in your pinky around the other side. So that you're it's kind of catching the wrist. Yeah. Okay great. Don't worry if you're on zoom, I'm gonna try to show.

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So, let's see, which which is the camera. This must be the camera. Okay, so we've got a loop and we're holding it a little bit different way. We've got the foot in the loop, the hand in the loop, and then we're kind of letting the loop pull a little on the wrist.

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As we just lightly grip, the sides of the loop with the fingers and the thumb, for me, this is nicer on my wrists, and fingers than gripping, the tail and of the belt. You can kind of let the hand relax a little bit better.

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Okay, so now we're not doing what you think we're going to do. We're going to do something way harder. So, instead of like, you know, in like many yoga classes, sometimes you would now take the, you would now move. We're not taking anything, we're moving. Yeah, you would move the right leg.

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All the way over to the left. We're not doing that one instead. Move the right leg across your midline only. So just across your heart. Then imagine that you want to pull your toes to like touch the floor over your left shoulder so it's not exactly like we're taking to all the way to the side but we are working on the start of this same area that we were working on a bit in standing.

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Good ready? We all got. Yeah, I know. I know the look when I see the look. I'm like, we've got the right got the right spot here. The sweet spot. Oh okay. Come on, back to the center. So go ahead and loop so at home, you know, if you if you made the oh face, that's the dude, that's sparkles.

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Then that's the right spot for it. Okay, let's switch legs. You're gonna loop your loop around the left foot. So, if the other way of holding your loop is better for you, you can, of course, do it your way. But, you know, but if you like this grip you can you can maintain it.

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Okay, good breathing here.

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Okay, so now left leg, just goes across the center of the chest. So we're not taking it all the way to the side but then you're gonna pull your left toes as if you wanted to touch your right ear.

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There it is.

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It is right? There's a flexi. Sometimes it's hard to feel things when you're so fluffy.

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Okay, come on. Back to the center, put the belt off, to the side feet on the floor. Come all the way up to a seated position straight in the legs forward out. In front of you can face either direction straighten, both legs out, flex the feet and fold forward.

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I never know what to do in Pashu was not right because the feet aren't supposed to go towards the altar but the back isn't supposed to go to altar. So it's like I don't know, just whichever direction you're facing, do it with love and it'll be right. Don't be fine.

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And lifting all the way up, right? Bend both knees into the chest, open both, knees to the sides feet together and fold forward particular.

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Would lift all the way up. Keep the shape of the legs, the same, but lay down on the back for souped about a colossal.

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I know, see all these decisions. It's it's like a it's like a little puzzle. Okay, you can stay here, you can stay and souped about or you can practice shoulder stand. So, if you're not sure which one you want to do, or if you need help setting up or anything like that, let me know.

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I'm happy to come around.

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Yeah. Or victory to Qurani also, good choice.

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First shoulder standers, you can move through plow.

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And roll all the way up to the back. You know, if you were practicing children's stand come into fish Matsyasana, if you weren't practicing shoulder stand, you don't have to take fish but you but you can

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And then lifting chin to chest slowly make your way onto your back.

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Shove userna.

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Start to deepen the breath.

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Bring some movement into the body.

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You ready? Come on up to a seated position.

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Choose a comfortable seed for meditation.

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Have a real grasping of problem. With knowledge. I'd love to devour books and texts and that's where I get. Very gravy. And hmm, knowledge. All of the things that we know, sometimes that also very much feels like hours.

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And yet, when we examine and contemplate where all of our knowledge comes from, it all comes from other people. Everything from finding my shoe, running to walk to Sanskrit. Study. Yoga study has all come through the many infinite teachers in our lives. And as it happens, this is a time of year, where we in particular honor, all of the teachers that have attributed to our knowledge,

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Oh, in your own way and whatever way feels authentic and right for you onto plate one of those teachers or many

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Thank you also much for making time for practice makes everyone joining us online. Thank you, thank you. Thank you.

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Anyone has any questions about practice? Let me know. I'll stick around. Otherwise, see you some other time in some other realm.

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Thank you. It was lovely to have you. Thanks for

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What's up? I'm going to start teaching Thursday mornings. You know there. They're adding it? Yeah. Yeah. So I'll be around more. Yeah. Yeah, I'm excited.

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Oops, right. Maybe.

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Thank you. Thank you.

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Hi. Thank you so much. Hi Helen everyone. It was like a camera's off. Kind of day. I respect it totally respected but it's kind of funny. Everyone just had the had the unanimous cameras off decision today. Thanks so much. See you next time.