Karen's Yoga Travels

Day 3 of the intensive

well i guess i will start every post for 10 days with Another wonderful day!
In the morning class Geeta started in seated poses saying in the early days always started with standing poses for the spine, in seated poses people can't lift the spine so standing. She started with seated poses this morning because she really wanted us to understand the action of the legs.
we did the wonderful upavistha konasana baddha konasana work, in baddha konasana she said a compact disc has everything in it even though it is compact, if it was missing something the song would skip. even though this pose is compact, it must contain everything, you must bring upavistha konasana into baddha konasana.
she gave a wonderful instruction in uttanasana, feet hip width, head up imagine the chest is your face, take your face (chest) to the mirror between your legs keeping the head up. There is a black spot on your face move the face closer to the mirror to have a closer look.
Just amazing instruction (i guess i need another synonym for amazing) It was a 3hr class just packed with so much spectacular (hows that) instruction.
Abhi had her daughter in the hall today.

In the afternoon session Sunita led us in the chant of the first 2 padas of the Yoga Sutras. She said recitationis external from the brain while chanting is internal from the heart, this is from within. It was wonderful. Swati then talked about yoginis in art.

After the event Tatyana Julie and I went to Parvati Hill to see the view and temples. It is the second highest point in Pune.