Yoga in the Fall

November 2, 2009 Yoga Session 16
Monday Week 10

Its finally starting to feel like fall and as the leaves fall so do i with every tripod asana pose i try out. Lol. But before i get into the specific asana poses and the routine we did this morning. Id like to start by saying that like the new month started, Sharkie also lead (or lack there of) through a session in which she let us lead ourselves in warming up. I worked with two other girls and we bounced poses off of each other. It was nice to do because we got to stretch what we thought we needed to stretch.

We did that for a few minutes and when we felt stretched we got into downward dog pose and sharkie took reign of the class. She did repeat some of the warm up moves we did because maybe she noticed that the rest of the class hadnt or maybe because she wanted too.

This session i feel like we focused a lot on inversions, extending our triangles and twists and also finally trying the tripod. On one of the backward bends i was also able to finally do the backward bend where instead of doing the bridge we put our hands behind our head and lift both our hips and chest into the air so that our head floats above the ground not touching. I was not able to do it for very long but it did happen.

We also did a relaxation exercise at the end of the class where the instructor ran us through visualizations of colors, i saw the bright reds and the oranges but i think i was too stressed out to follow through the rest and i kept moving and got a little anzy. Which is the first time during Yoga.