Homework PageSteady practice makes steady progress... MondayGreensboro Children's Museum 4:30 pm Yoga Practice Savasana   Practice Savasana for 5-10 minutes before lunch or before you go home from work.
Tuck you shoulders under, support your head with a towel, blanket or your jacket/sweater. Relax your feet, hands and heart. Keep your mind alert by paying attention to your breath and the way your body begins to feel as if it is making a slight depression into the earth, like a footprint in the sand. Do you feel different when you get home on days that you practice Savasana before leaving work vs. days that you don't? TuesdayChildren's Yoga 3:20 pm at Greensboro Montessori School Begin learning Sanskrit, the language of Yoga Make flash cards to learn these words in Sanskrit. Write the Sanskrit word on one side and the English translation on the other side. Tada = mountain, urdhva = up, adho = down, hasta = hand, pada = foot, uttana = intense stretch, ardha = half, virabhadra = A powerful hero created out of Siva's matted hair!!!, asta = 8, bhuja = cobra, mukha = face, svana = dog
What's the Sanskrit name for this pose?! 
WednesdayThe Club 9:30am Yoga 2 Parsva Upavista Konasana: Practice this pose a few times this week, while you are watching the news or a movie, or just before bed.  Tips : * Lengthen your spine by first coming forward in the center. * Keep your quads engaged to keep the knee caps pointing up and to extend energy out through the center of the heels. * Twist so that your breastbone is in line with your shin and move your heart toward your foot and you fold. Stay for 15-20 seconds. Practice on both sides 2x.
Upper El/Middle School 3:45 pm Mixed Level Practice sitting in Virasana. Use props if you need them (blanket, book or block, rolled washcloth or towel...)  Tips: * Remember to keep the shins and tops of the feet on the floor with the toes point straight back, not in or out. If the toes turn in or out, or if the ankles look puffy try sitting a little higher. * Put a rolled washcloth under the front of the ankle(s) if the stretch on your feet is too intense.
Thursday Center for Creative Leadership Basic Yoga 12:00pm
The Club 4:30 pm Level 2 Yoga Sutra 1.33 from Sri Swami Satchidananda's translation and commentary on The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali "By cultivating attitudes of friendliness toward the happy, compassion for the unhappy, delight in the virtuous, and disregard toward the wicked, the mind-stuff retains its undisturbed calmness." Try practicing the four keys: maitri - friendliness, karuna - compassion, mudita - delight, upekshanam - indifference as you go through your days. Notice when or with whom you use the right key... If you come to a place where you can't find your keys, take 3 deep breaths and let go... then look for them again. Check out this short talk on maitri by Pema Chodron. When we cultivate friendliness with oneself we can extend it to others. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7s-rRMUl04I The Club 6:00 pm Level 1/2
Sunday The Club 4:00 pm Yoga 1/2 : Preparation for Ardha Chandrasana
Practice Supta Padangustasana 2 (supta=reclining :: pada = foot, leg :: angustha = big toe) Lie on your back with your feet at a wall. Energetically reach the foot of your bottom leg into the wall as you stretch the top leg up and release it out to the side. Lift the lower belly in and up, lengthen your tailbone away from your head and stretch the crown of your head away from the wall. Feel the grounding action of pressing the foot into the wall. How does practicing this pose relate to Ardha Chandrasana (ardha = half :: chandra = moon)? 
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