the quickest update!
just a quickie update because people have been asking about yoga resources, and wanting to start / do more / get back to it, and what if you don’t have experience, and online is overwhelming and and and
I get it, yeah, this is all a lot
luckily one bonus of youtube/zoom yoga is no one can see you and you can just go hide and put legs up the wall whenever you don’t want to do a pose, or at least that’s what I do
try online class with Madeleine
if you’ve never done yoga or also if you’ve done lots of yoga, I recommend Madeleine Lohman, her youtube page is Mad Yoga and she teaches a live class every Saturday at 11am PST (I almost never recommend people but would give a money-back guarantee on anything Madeleine-related, her yoga glows with acceptance and All Bodies Are Welcome, she lives it, expect gentleness, compassion, humor and lots of ways to adapt poses to different needs!)
yoga for immune support
on tuesdays & thursdays, I like to take yoga for immune support with Sonya who teaches 8:30-10am MST at Shree yoga in Taos, a favorite studio of mine, class now available via Zoom, you can try it once for free with code STAYHOME, this is not a sweating exertion class (though sometimes I do just from concentrating hard and focusing on the breath), and I pretty much always feel better about [the everything and the many mysteries and my relationship to them] after this class
props
if you need props, I am a huge fan of yoga blocks (I get mine from Yogaware), and have mostly just been using stuff around the house (bathrobe tie for a strap, giant pillow for a bolster), but if you might want actual props, Shree & Hugger Mugger are doing a promotion, 20% off through April 30 and if you use this link, Shree will get 10% which is great because they are a place that is very dear to my heart and could use the help
accessible yoga
I have been meaning to check out Practice with Dana (Falsetti) since Kathryn told me about her years ago, and this might be the time, looks like a great variety and includes wrist-free classes too!
just a starting point
will update more on this and other topics when I have more focus but this is just some places to start
and maybe will do a mini video on IG even though I don’t teach movement anything anymore, it will probably focus on my obsessive love of neck stretching and/or the feldenkrais concept of moving on an endless continuum from the impossible to possible, possible to easy, easy to elegant, without any end point or perceived pressure or hurrying to get to the next bit
sixteen breaths
we can always do compass breaths and yawn our heads off, and that counts too!
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Thank you for this! <3 <3 <3
Ooooh, breaths of Gratitude for this, thankyou!
(*waves and smiles to Kathleen and Havi*)
I’m totally up for neck stretching and that continuum (and Incoming Selves if my current self had committed soon enough). Definitely stuck in the “impossible” phase now and getting impatient about it.
But the ol’ blog has been quite a gift meanwhile. I think I understand your 2008 point about procrastination (finally? a little bit?) The difference between not doing X and procrastinating on X is… fear and guilt, the guest stars that recur so often, they may as well as be main characters (except for getting more attention.) I’m not running for president right now; that feels fine, so it’s not procrastinating. I’m not working on a report due tomorrow; that feels like a dreaded monster-filled disaster, and so *that* is procrastinating.
(or it’s experiencing fear and dread which are causing you to not be able to focus on the doing, which is so reasonable and relatable!)
procrastinating, or percolating?
<3
i love these. i do my own Turkish cat yoga, which is mostly me letting the elements move through me as I focus on stance and breath.
compass yoga?
yoga of yes?
(it's weird to write this in English, when my glow heart is just saying: tat tvam asi. mere saathi, mere baali.)
[SILENT RETREAT] so i haven't been able to find my way to the east which is (soft! what light through window breaks! it is the daybreak with the bell.)
thank you. <3