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Siddhartha listened. He was now nothing but a listener, completely concentrated on listening, completely empty, he felt, that he had now finished learning to listen. Often before, he had heard all this, these many voices in the river, today it sounded new. Already, he could no longer tell the many voices apart, not the happy ones from the weeping ones, not the ones of children from those of men, they all belonged together, the lamentation of yearning and the laughter of the knowledgeable one, the scream of rage and the moaning of the dying ones, everything was one, everything was intertwined and connected, entangled a thousand times. And everything together, all voices, all goals, all yearning, all suffering, all pleasure, all that was good and evil, all of this together was the world. All of it together was the flow of events, was the music of life. And when Siddhartha was listening attentively to this river, this song of a thousand voices, when he neither listened to the suffering nor the laughter, when he did not tie his soul to any particular voice and submerged his self into it, but when he heard them all, perceived the whole, the oneness, then the great song of the thousand voices consisted of a single word, which was Om: the perfection.On Day Two I took in more sessions:
- "Secrets of the Vinyasa Revealed" with Cyndi Lee
- "Cosmic Dancer" with Natasha Rizopoulos
- "Ow I Sprained my Cow" with Blake Martin
- Kirtan with Michael Cohen and friends
It is widely acknowledged teachers themselves have different levels of skill, and many are adamant about their approach to posture until time or experience prove otherwise. Bottom line, if you notice something isn't right, don't persist.
Some specific tips for avoiding injuries in downdog
- don't spread the fingers too widely, keep the baby finger in line with palm (Lee)
- don't work to bring the shoulder blades down the back (a common instruction), look instead to be long in the torso (Rizopoulos)
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This was part of a two-hour session that presented a sequence that culminated with the pose Cosmic Dancer:
Down Dog (Adho Mukha Svanasana)
Revolved Triangle (Parivrtta Trikonasana)
Baby Cobra (Bhujangasana)
Up Dog (urdhva mukha svanasana)
Bow (Dhanura-asana)
Dolphin
Headstand (salamba sirsasana)
Cosmic Dancer (Natrajasana)
Lucky for me, the following day at my regular studio YCT was a restorative class!
2 comments:
Well, I admit that I only came over to say: Rodney can adjust me anytime:) I use his DVDs. Julie the Cat loves his voice. It's so funny. Her yoga practice is, of course, perfect & innate.
lol Giulia
I was tempted to say he was once dubbed the 'stud muffin guru'... you know it was quite a scandal when they left their spouses of 20+ years for each other.
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