Day Ten

Day Ten

Focus: Hero Pose, Virasana

Reading: Chapter Ten of One Simple Thing

Mouth: The Yoga Bible (pages 120 & 121)

Anatomy: The Yoga Anatomy Coloring Book, Pose by Pose (pages 92 & 93)

Instructions:

Welcome to Day Ten! You made it to the double digits.

  1. Read Chapter Ten of One Simple Thing.

  2. Then, color page 92-3 of The Yoga Anatomy Coloring Book Pose by Pose. Practice the pose after coloring. I used two blocks under by sit-bones or my iliam and then removed one as I warmed up.

  3. Finally, read aloud the cueing for this pose from pages 120 & 121 of The Yoga Bible.


Bonus: Try too many props and then too little to see how this effects your ability to raise your arms in this pose.

Extra credit: Practice some of the bandas or breathe work while in this pose that we've been reading about in One Simple Thing.

My Journal Entry from Day Ten:

From One Simple Thing:

  • "A little bit of self-honesty goes a very long way, and our nature, or personality, is revealed to us through the way that we practice yoga, enjoy life, work and sleep" (page 169)

  • Today's chapters about sleep and food are check-ins for how we care for ourselves. I've never really experiences digestion or sleep problems, but I like the idea that it is through practices that can influence our parasympathetic nervous system that we can quiet voices that might keep us awake.

From today's yoga class:

  • Key Words: Athletic

  • Today, I took a class with Angela at Harlem Yoga Studio today. Today we did a bit of core work during the yoga class. I heard Angela call some yoga practices as athletic and I enjoyed the use of that term. As an athlete, this terms doesn't mean competitive to me as much as it means the application of a physical will to feel out boundaries.