Podcast #15 - Effort, Surrender, Self-study

The yoga of Patanjali offers us Yoga Sutras including the 8 limbs of yoga. Within these 8 limbs are the Yamas (social inter-action with others) and Niyamas

(inter-action we have with ourselves). There are 5 Yamas and 5 Niyamas

making them kinda like the 10 commandments of Yoga. For this class I

focused on 3 of the Niyamas - Tapas (effort), Svadhyaya (self-study) ,

and Ishvara Pranidhana (surrender to the divine). In life we mostly do,

effort and forget to feel the connection to something bigger - when we

take time to reflect or study we can see where we are with both. In

yoga effort is important to get to the mat keep your arms strong in

down dog but to leave space to soften even surrender to this greater

energy. Through self-study on and off the mat using scriptures or any

books that take you deeper one can see there tendency and make a choice

to see balance of these actions.

Sanskrit: Chin mudra or Om mudra

Sequence Level 2 :

Downward facing dog with split and twist

Straight leg lunge

Down Dog

Uttanasana

Urdvah Hastasana

Shoulder opener hands clasped behind back then fold fwd to Uttanasana

Plank to Vinyasa

Crescent Pose

Vinyasa

Utthita Parsvakonasana - Stage one, full pose or bounded variation-

Vinyasa going thru Chattarunga back through to Down Dog

Trikonasana

Prasarita Padottonasana - hands clasped

Uttanasana

Malasana - (garland) to Bakasana - crane also known as crow

then back to Malasana

Uttanasana

Samasthiti

Vinyasa

Plank to Vashistasana -

Down Dog

Parsvottonasana to Parvritta Parsvottonasana (w/blocks or not)

Down Dog

Vashistasana - second stage leg lifted or with tree pose legs-

Down Dog

Eka Pada Rajakapostasana - pigeon prep then to a Twisted variation

Down Dog

Anjanasana Thigh Stretch -

Setubhanda - bridge pose

Urdvah Dhanurasana 3X - with choice of eka pada (one foot) and eka hasta (one hand) for #3

Supine Twist

Baddha Konasana

Triangamukha Paschimottonasana

Sukasana

Meditation

Savasana

Namaste!