Everyone was very excited that Dean Lerner was coming to teach at Yogarosas. Dean was one of Iyengar’s master students. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to attend. The week before, all the yoga instructors asked all the students to invite anyone that was brand new to yoga because Dean wanted to teach an introductory class.
Rosa, owner and head instructor at Yogarosa, was recently at a yoga conference and came back with a message, ” Where ever you are in your yoga practice, step it up to the next level.” Don’t do yoga with complacency. I like the challenge.
This week, I was able to attend on Monday and Wednesday. On Monday, the focus of the class was hip openers. We worked a lot on Utthita Trikonasana but we would stop in the pose and work on the hip rotation and big toe. We worked on a pre lotus position, Padmasana.
On Wednesday, we did some intense ham string stretches with Uttanasana except we would grab our big toe and pump our arms to get more length in the trunk. We worked on Tadasana. After a year of study, I don’t have mastery over any pose and I find Tadasana one of the hardest. Most of the class, I struggled with my ego. Non stop chatter of negativity, but by the end of class I found peace.
By myself, I did yoga at Greynolds Park under an enormous Banyan tree followed by meditation.
The Yoga Bridge 