The Lerners
I am in Santa Fe at a workshop with Dean and Rebecca Lerner, I really love their teaching so much that i considered selling my wordly possesions and following them around the country but i am trying to control myself. I had taken from Dean before in Dallas but never from Rebecca and it's fun seeing them together.
I went to 10000 waves wednesday when i arrived after i told a hotel employee i had been there but thought it was a little over the top expensive but she told me I had to ask for Sundown, a native american masseuse who has been doing this for 15 yrs, I did and oh yes, ask for Sundown.
I have been on a Vinaigrette thing since i have been here, loving the patio and their awesome salads.
and then there is yoga...
I am sore from head to toe, such incredible work. Rebecca said the side of the abdomen of the raised leg like in krounchasana will drop which i thought was so odd but i immediately could feel, it's so funny when something is only obvious when a teacher points it out to you well not funny sorta ridiculous but anyway i started thinking of the abdomen thinking that you were offering it something to rest on and then it was easy to remind myself to resist that, it was easy to remind myself not easy to resist it. She said in urdhva mukha paschimottanasana prep which was 1 leg bent foot on floor then classic both legs, to move to the middle back which i really liked, to think not so much from the legs. She has also been teaching baddha konasana then cross feet before swastikasana, really nice although the first time i did the cross feet it was pretty intense i noticed it came better yesterday. Oh she also drew the connection between supta padangusthasana III where the knee is bent and shin across torso and siddhasana.
Dean is teaching Towelasana which is another do this everyday for the shoulders, he uses a blanket calling it a towel so people dont have the but i dont have a yoga belt or blanket thought. In Janu Sirsasana when we were still upright he said some are already folding forward because nobody likes being upright because it is hard, which made me smile since if you have taken from Arunji you know this is truth. He was teaching to separate the shoulder blades in from the floating ribs wrapping around and spreading and every time i would spread the floating ribs i would lose my shoulder blades they would go with the ribs and i found myself starting to get irritated with myself which is all part of the practice watching not only the actions but your reaction to that effort. He showed in a students demo how the extending the hamstring in uttanasana without the opposing lifting of the quadriceps was not stretching it takes those opposing actions to get the true extension through the legs, another demo was the pressing through the toe mound while pulling back to set the femur, in both of these demos watching what these actions did to the students legs, not just straightening but the tone the energy of the legs.. everything.
Beautiful weather, incredible teachers in a lovely location.
Towelasana - hold the towel edge arms in front, hands distance appropriate to your shoulder whatever is going on there, now swing it up to 1 side and over your head arms straight, bend knuckles toward ceiling palms down then rotate palms toward each other while trying to pull the hands apart but the triceps roll in while pulling not out, swing arms down, other side, may be different on 1 side
I am in Santa Fe at a workshop with Dean and Rebecca Lerner, I really love their teaching so much that i considered selling my wordly possesions and following them around the country but i am trying to control myself. I had taken from Dean before in Dallas but never from Rebecca and it's fun seeing them together.
and then there is yoga...
I am sore from head to toe, such incredible work. Rebecca said the side of the abdomen of the raised leg like in krounchasana will drop which i thought was so odd but i immediately could feel, it's so funny when something is only obvious when a teacher points it out to you well not funny sorta ridiculous but anyway i started thinking of the abdomen thinking that you were offering it something to rest on and then it was easy to remind myself to resist that, it was easy to remind myself not easy to resist it. She said in urdhva mukha paschimottanasana prep which was 1 leg bent foot on floor then classic both legs, to move to the middle back which i really liked, to think not so much from the legs. She has also been teaching baddha konasana then cross feet before swastikasana, really nice although the first time i did the cross feet it was pretty intense i noticed it came better yesterday. Oh she also drew the connection between supta padangusthasana III where the knee is bent and shin across torso and siddhasana.
Dean is teaching Towelasana which is another do this everyday for the shoulders, he uses a blanket calling it a towel so people dont have the but i dont have a yoga belt or blanket thought. In Janu Sirsasana when we were still upright he said some are already folding forward because nobody likes being upright because it is hard, which made me smile since if you have taken from Arunji you know this is truth. He was teaching to separate the shoulder blades in from the floating ribs wrapping around and spreading and every time i would spread the floating ribs i would lose my shoulder blades they would go with the ribs and i found myself starting to get irritated with myself which is all part of the practice watching not only the actions but your reaction to that effort. He showed in a students demo how the extending the hamstring in uttanasana without the opposing lifting of the quadriceps was not stretching it takes those opposing actions to get the true extension through the legs, another demo was the pressing through the toe mound while pulling back to set the femur, in both of these demos watching what these actions did to the students legs, not just straightening but the tone the energy of the legs.. everything.
Beautiful weather, incredible teachers in a lovely location.
Towelasana - hold the towel edge arms in front, hands distance appropriate to your shoulder whatever is going on there, now swing it up to 1 side and over your head arms straight, bend knuckles toward ceiling palms down then rotate palms toward each other while trying to pull the hands apart but the triceps roll in while pulling not out, swing arms down, other side, may be different on 1 side
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