it's so exciting to return to costa rica and see all the work that's gone on while we've been away. months ago on our way to moab russ and i pulled over at a gas station and drew the plans for a new classroom on a napkin. after some deliberations we decided we'd nailed our blueprint and took a photo with russ's phone, sending it off to be duplicated in real life.
after much work, some problems, and lots of fine tuning the classroom is finally ALMOST done! i couldn't resist jumping in for a triumphant warrior pose today when we were checking out what our napkin drawing had become. master manifestation in action! i can't wait to see all the students in it in the coming week.
back to yoga!!!
take a wide stance, turn your front foot forward, bend your front knee, ground your back foot at an angle, open your hips, sink down deeply - as deep as you can keeping you front knee over your ankle, lift out of your front hip, center your shoulders, roll them down your back, lift your arms, extend through your fingertips, don't lean forward - stay perfectly upright, find a spot to gaze beyond your front fingertips, lift your chin, breathe, feel your energy expand from your core into your legs, into your feet, into the earth, feel your energy expand from your heart through all your limbs and out your fingertips, all around you, feel your energy expand from your crown, lift, settle, breathe.
one arm reaches into the past, one arm reaches into the future. you are in the middle, perfectly balanced in the present. do not observe the pose happening to you. embody this pose. be a warrior. not a warrior of aggression but a warrior poised to strike down obstacles. identify your obstacles, recognize your tools, define your desire and purpose and breathe.
how long can you stay here, in this present moment?
"..Sometimes he danced; sometimes he laughed aloud; sometimes he stood
wrapt in meditation; sometimes he trampled upon the earth; sometimes he
sang; sometimes he wept repeatedly: and he was endowed with the
faculties of wisdom, dispassion, power, penance, truth, endurance,
fortitude, dominion, and self-knowledge..."
- description of the warrior virabhada, the vishnu purana
