John Schumacher

  Tatyana sent me this great pic they took after the class sunday - mary, tatyana, john, susanne



 A few thoughts on the workshop.

 On Friday we did standing forward bends. In urdhva prasaritta ekapadasana once the leg was up, he said now throw the leg and said like the release of the grip of the ball when you throw. Throw not in a haphazard wild pitch way but to release the grip on the leg with movement...how's that for a nugget.

 On Sunday, he continued the same leg work through the entire workshop, and i found turn the ankle in, press from the outer knee to the mid outer skirt of the foot and move the top shin in and back in urdhva dhanurasana to bring great firmness and grounding to the legs and feet. As we were resting in between urdhva dhanurasanas, he said people ask him how long they should wait between them and he tells them the minute the mind thinks of anything else it's time for another one. To me this is not a nugget, this is a gem boulder he placed in my hands, to use the fluctuations of the mind as a tool for your practice, an asset, not to continue with this wandering mind and in my case, most of the time, wander right off my mat but have that be a direct trigger to 1 more.

it was great