Tatayana's restorative class

 Tatyana's restorative class needs a restriction: must have designated driver to participate.
Here is some of what she taught:

  I am fuzzy on the order and have left out some but here's what i can remember of a lovely class,

  virasana - have chair behind, invocation in virasana then chair behind, block on seat chair seat edge at bottom of shoulder blades, extend back hold chair back bar corners elbows to side to open chest

 several times during class we did some arms breath movements

 baddha konasana in sarvangasana on the chair (p134 of arunji's book) sit on chair like a normal person then stick head under bar and take shoulders to bolster head on blanket feet to baddha konasana on chair seat

backbend - i have done this a few times in her restorative and thought it was nice but last night i did not want to come out, 2 chairs facing seat edges touching as close as possible, mat across both seats bolster across both seats then another thicker bolster perpendicular on first bolster, have setup arms length from wall, sit on mid-room side end of bolster feet wide extend back over bolster hands wide fingertips on wall, as back adjusts straighten legs

sirsasana (p123 of arunji's book) with 2 chairs facing each other side chairs to wall, enough room between chair seat edge for neck and rolled mats on edge for tops of shoulders, went up with palms flat sirsasana II and then relaxed arms tops of hands on chair seats

bishmacharyasana - 5 blocks 2 bolsters, have fun, jk, a tall block under head dorsal sacrum 2 under heels and 2 bolsters 45 degress up close to dorsal block for arms, have bolsters pulled up close when in the asana, belt shins, once bishmacharyasana has stopped showing you every imbalance in your body with a megaphone, totally relax, this was the longest i had been in this asana, once we were there she read from Geetaji's book on ujayii then quiet while we practiced

pranayama - 2 flat blocks side by side vertical then blankets trifolded for head above blocks, she read from Geetaji's book on each ujayii before we did 5 breaths of each ujayi

savasana - started with her lovely chanting of the first 10 sutras

deep relaxation