Day Two

Day Two

Focus: Forward Fold, Uttanasana

Reading: Chapter Two of One Simple Thing (only a few pages today!)

Mouth: The Yoga Bible (pages 68 & 69)

Anatomy: The Yoga Anatomy Coloring Book, Pose by Pose (pages 12 & 13)

Instructions:

Welcome to Day Two! Let's forward fold: uttanasana. The progression from yesterday's moutain pose.

  1. Read Chapter Two of One Simple Thing.

  2. Then, color page 13 of The Yoga Anatomy Coloring Book Pose by Pose. Practice the pose after coloring. Specifically let your imagination travel up your hamstring. Experiment with bending your knees to see if you can prevent your spine from rounding.

  3. Finally, read aloud the cueing for this pose from pages 68 & 69 of The Yoga Bible. Practice this pose with your eyes open and your eyes closed. Try to visualize the waterfall imagery cued on page 69.


Bonus: Tear out the flashcard for uttanasana to review. Review yesterday's moutain pose flashcard and today's forward fold flashcard.

Extra credit: If you take a yoga class today, consider different ways that the instructor cues this uttanasana in order to get people to bend from the waist and prevent the curving of the spine.

My Journal Entry from Day Two:

From One Simple Thing:

  • A quick introduction to the eight limbs of yoga. I appreciated how Stern kept the theme of conscious decision making in his rewrite of each of the eight limbs.

From today's yoga class:

  • Key Words: Intentional Breath

  • Today, I took a class with Dublin in Marcus Garvey Park. It is fall here and the air is perfectly crisp for yoga. I love how the feeling of the breeze brings my attention back to my skin/body during practice. At the same time, it is challenging to stay focused amid all of the city noise-sirens, cars, people blasting music, barking dogs. I focused a lot on my breath during class.