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our facebook page here s today s practice focusing on pacifying kapha anatomy alignment downward facing dog june 2 2017 in anatomy asana inquiring minds series video by sara leave a comment day 2 of the q a challenge on facebook live today i discuss the anatomy and alignment of the upper body in adho mukha svanasana downward facing dog the muscles referenced in my discussion are serratus anterior latissimus dorsi teres major working the fundamentals of down dog can help develop a foundation for arm balances headstand and even open the shoulder girdle for backbends all the advanced poses are built in the basics comfort zones take the leap june 1 2017 in asana inquiring minds series musings video yoga philosophy by sara leave a comment i ve been challenged to do 30 questions in 30 days on facebook live for those who aren t on facebook i ll be posting them here as well i hope you enjoy this series it definitely puts me outside my comfort zone so i thought i d start this series discussing that topic if you have questions and or comments please feel free to leave them in the comments and i ll eventually get to answering them on these videos you never know when someone has the same question as you slowly slowly through the possum kingdom february 14 2012 in musings people of yoga tags ashtanga cherry blossom yoga michael gannon yoga musings reflections workshops by sara leave a comment i m bundled up and you look like you re headed to the beach michael gannon i intentionally waited until some time had passed before writing a blog about my time with the gannon i wanted the euphoric gannon glow to subside after so much yoga so i could process and distinguish between that which was yoga bliss induced and that which was truth so here ya go down the rabbit hole slowly slowly through the possum kingdom otherwise known as my week with michael gannon i had the luxury of hosting michael gannon at cby as well as in my home it was his first time in texas aside from airport connections so i made sure he could experience some texas as our yoga community experienced some gannon and in true houston style the airport is never an easy venture i drive through passenger pick up and just as i spot him on the commercial car side they wave me through so i have to make the rounds so i try to pull into the commercial car lane and they make me back up and go through regular car lane good thing susie the mini cooper can maneuver in spectacular fashion so i pull up hop out of the car to grab him and i hear a whistle from across the way micheal is already at susie and i m right outside baggage claim if it wasn t real life it would be sketch comedy he led some amazing workshops which was expected but i have to admit that i had heard horror stories of the gannon that put me on guard with what to actually expect as a guest in my home not to fear my home brought forth feelings of cozy childhood nostalgia not in a weird floral sofa and plastic flowers way but a sense of pleasant comfort and welcoming memories though there were definitely brief moments of me thinking um really sigh there was always an underlying kindness and compassion that you can feel in his adjustments in his tone when he s teaching or in his presence when we were just chillin he s certainly no worse than i ve been at times in my life it would not be untrue that parts of me even identified with his particular so called diva nature but the infamous diva rarely made an appearance this trip at least there was nothing that seemed out of the ordinary or unreasonable outside of phrasing things in certain ways that could ve been phrased in other ways but again as a person who has particular tendencies myself there was nothing i couldn t accept with more than a sigh or a thought of oh good i m not the only one sometimes people cultivate a reputation because of things we ve done in the past but if yoga teaches us nothing it teaches us that lives change people change everything changes who we were a year or 10 years ago isn t always the person we are today or the person we ll be tomorrow he s definitely an energy i can be at peace around just the place for a snark i have said it twice that alone should encourage the crew lewis carroll slowly slowly goes the practice michael gannon what is he like to practice with i think everyone perceives a practice slightly different as we are all different and no matter that it s a single instructor leading a single class it s a different class for everyone present for me as we were working deep into locust with arms overhead during the back bending session i hear a distant oh that s fu king hard coming from the direction of his mat his strong not aggressive adjustments such as pressing my feet down in setu bandhasana full bridge or gently tapping my shin coaxing my forehead forward in ardha baddha padmottanasana standing half lotus are not to be taken lightly and during the hip opening practice he asks who s loving this nobody but me pipes up and he says i knew it you ve got this smile that says i could stay here all day who does that annoy to an uproar of laughter perhaps that doesn t speak to what he s like to practice with for everyone but those are just a small selection of the bits i ll keep with me a wonderfully pleasant experience all around as we traveled deeper down the rabbit hole along the texas highways around houston to gangsta rap paul simon and the beatles one song remained ever present at the top of his request list i give you the toadies possum kingdom i ll have fond memories of his declaration for karaoke in the mini after heading out for a long neck at a texas dive bar picking up pizza at midnight his new found love for liz lovely cookies having mocha talk on skype with ikal and the toadies on repeat repeat repeat i can hardly wait for his return in the future for more amazing yoga random laughter lazy afternoons emancipated avians and hobbitses so from the frosting cottage as michael would say shanti out doug swenson weekend workshops october 5 2011 in events tags ashtanga cherry blossom yoga vinyasa yin yoga by sara leave a comment a few spaces are still available in each session register today doug swenson returns to cby oct 7 8 and 9 friday oct 7 6 8 30pm handstands inversions and balancing workshop in this class the students will experience a delightful holistic flow of asana focused around handstands inversions and balancing with many tips on how to avoid and overcome injury call email the studio and chat with sara if you are curious about the appropriateness of this workshop for you some yoga experience recommended saturday oct 8 2 sessions 9 11 30am ashtanga with extra spice the class will follow the order of asanas for 1st level ashtanga with the addition of some poses from the 2nd and 3rd blended in at appropriate places in your routine this class includes hands on adjustments and personal suggestions on how to enhance your practice call email the studio and chat with sara if you are curious about the appropriateness of this workshop for you some yoga experience recommended 1 3pm yin yoga in this class the students will enjoy the simplicity of a nurturing gentle asana flow many postures will be supportive relaxing and held for longer duration the vinyasa will be light non muscle resistance while cby provides props for such a class our numbers are limited if you have your own bolster or pillow we highly encourage bringing your own due to increased attendance for workshops such as this if you don t have your own we do have some here in house all levels welcome no yoga experience required sunday oct 9 9 30am 12pm introduction to ashtanga intermediate series this class walks the student through the 2nd level series of ashtanga yoga using supportive alternatives to challenging asana call email the studio and chat with sara if you are curious about the appropriateness of this workshop for you best for intermediate and above students for registration click here 65 per individual session 225 for the full weekend of classes for questions call the studio 281 257 4245 or email cherryblossom yoga gmail com national yoga month at cby august 27 2011 in events tags ashtanga cherry blossom yoga hatha national yoga month vinyasa yoga by sara leave a comment september is national yoga month cby will be participating with free classes for all and a free week of unlimited yoga for new students to get your one week free card click here for current students those who have been to a class at cby anytime in the past we are opening up a selection of classes that will be free to all as a way of saying thank you to our kula of students who make cby the beautiful and energetic space that it is today the following classes are free to anyone sept 3 saturday 10 45 11 45am restorative with laura lima sept 4 sunday 12 30 1 45pm sadhana yoga chi with sara turk sept 5 monday 5 45 7pm vinyasa with sara turk sept 8 thursday 6 7am hatha flow with jennifer mohr sept 17 saturday 9 10 30am ashtanga with claire wilson sept 22 thursday 6 7am hatha flow with jennifer mohr click here to sign up for classes grumpy grumps a lot finally lets go august 1 2011 in meditations musings tags anger cherry blossom yoga frustration jack kornfield musings personal practice reflections yoga by sara leave a comment a state of mind is always temporary jack kornfield a huge part of yoga is the practice of letting go something i ve been contemplating quite a bit lately is the letting go of judgment the past two weeks i ve noticed much more anger frustration and judgment have welled up within and i didn t know why recently i had a visiting friend who i don t see all that often and i was grumpy grumps a lot and it made me feel badly that i couldn t be not grumpy and faking cheerful giddy is for high school cheerleaders something i ve moved beyond at first it was hard to recognize well at least the reasons why were hard to recognize i hadn t felt like that in years and i felt like i was losing my mind turns out it was due to a hormonal imbalance but that s beside the point practicing yoga teaches us to recognize the emotions that rise up in order to observe the root causes without judgment so that they may pass so just saying oh it was all hormonal in my mind is a cop out for an opportunity to grow sure perhaps my hormones did make me a little get bent but what caused the insanity was not the anger and frustration that manifested it was my self judgment of why is this happening why am i going crazy why can t i just let it go wtf i noticed i was expressing my anger in my teaching though my students may not have known it at the time i mean it s ashtanga the primary series is what it is i was never aggressive with my adjustments i just noticed myself being overly cautious to adjust in a hands on manner because i didn t want to physically express my frustration upon another person so in that regard my students might have sensed a pulling away from my usual hands on approach clarity is a funny thing i discovered the root cause to the hormonal imbalance and rectified it but it took a few more days to realize some other underlying causes to the wells of anger frustration and judgment of course meditating on these emotions helped clear the cobwebs so that i could see what lied beneath tuesday morning i taught a very aggressive primary series to which all the students responded with that was great and the like and i appreciate that they had a wonderful experience that my pushing them as i worked out underlying issues in myself opened windows of self reflection of course enter another self judgment i begrudged myself for working out my issues while teaching their class teaching is a time to give everything to the student not work on my own issues that s what my practice is for perhaps a yoga class is catharsis on both sides i always say i learn more from my students than they learn from me it wasn t until the evening primary series that same day i had a window open up for myself i took it a bit different since i only had a couple of students and they are open to having me play with it a little i didn t follow the exact layout of pattabhi jois gasp but in that rebellion from tradition i discovered something beautiful i threw in some intermediate series poses in appropriate places i held them in each pose a little longer and reduced the number of vinyasas and instead of cueing alignment issues since this pair is pretty spot on in their alignment i discussed more the feelings of the posture what does uttitha parsvokonasana feel like within you and not on you or what emotional whispers rise up as you work in opposite directions in paschimottanasana or marichyasana cues of that nature there was much laughter and experimentation when we tried some of the more challenging poses it was a release i think we all needed then my thursday morning ashtanga i taught in the same manner more self reflective than alignment based the energy is the room was focused inward whether they knew it or not i feel that each one in the room touched a little pratyahara again all the students seemed to have an enlightening experience no matter how fleeting this is merely my perception of the events and what is truly happening within them only they know so with the clarity of the underlying issues beneath the physiological hormonal imbalance i seemed to have rediscovered why i teach yoga and it re inspired my desire to practice yoga a whole blog post in itself on that one maybe because it had been so long that i needed to experience such a physiological insanity so that i could realize i was still self judging on a subconscious level my feeling badly because i felt grumpy is a judgment that needs to be released just let go and observe the grumpy sometimes people feel grumpy and it s okay even yoga teachers get grumpy frustrated angry yoga teachers are still students of yoga on the same path as our students we teach every day it s our experiences and perceptions of the path that differ but we re all walking side by side those who have moved beyond the path are enlightened and having tea with the buddha but us mere mortals area still working through the cobwebs namaste live stream sharath jois leading primary series april 9 2011 in asana video tags ashtanga niyamas yamas yoga by sara leave a comment sharath jois the grandson to the lute guruji is leading a group of students in the primary series i can only imagine the awesome feeling of being in his presence i was never lucky enough to practice with guruji before he passed so a practice with sharath or manju pattabhi s son and sharath s father would in my mind be equally as magical enjoy at the end sharath discusses the practice of yamas and niyamas during your asana watch it all the way through wonderful because i m not cool enough to embed it i ve tried several different ways you ll have to settle for a link http livestre am hds5 and i love that his shirt 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