Monday, January 30, 2012

Saraswati - Flowing Gracefully

Today we're talking about Organic Extension, the last principle, but also how it flows back into first principle, Open to Grace

Manifestation of one supreme divine river that takes many forms
Saras = flowing + wati = she who has
The sara is the same as in Anusara - flowing with grace

She is a river as well as a personification of a goddess
Related to Shiva and Ganesha, maybe daughter of one of them
She has four arms, seated on a white lotus, wearing all white

Opening Centering exercise - see thoughts as a river flowing by. Be on the bank and watch the thoughts float by, don't get caught up in the river, watch and observe.

Students face one another to support one another with organic extension.

Do four Sun Salutations, one for each of her arms:

Holding arms and stretch, alternating legs

1. HL - low cobra
2. Pvakon - WII - drunken cobra
3. WI - Pvott - shalabasana
4. WI - WIII - standing splits - superman locust

Iguana
Pigeon
Hanumanasana
Janu Sirsasana
Supta Padangusthasana
Eye of the Needle

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