“Exhale further and further and further and further.” Prashant continues to concentrate his instructions on the exhalation. At one point he stopped to tell us that lemons have different chemical reactions when combined with other elements. Squeeze a lemon into cold water, wam water, coffee, cottage cheese and you get a different chemical reaction, a different affect. As humans we also have different modalities. We are friends, teachers, students, daughters, mothers, sisters. And our yoga poses, although they may be the same poses from day to day, can and should be done differently, for different affects.
Today we did our poses for the pelvis, which was serendipitous because I had some sort of minor gastrointestinal upset that, by the second or third poses, was gone.
Again, the sequence doesn’t matter. Prashant makes that clear. It is DOING the pose in a certain way for a certain effect that matters. And, again, there were groups doing different poses. I made the choice not to hang because I felt slightly nauseous and thought hanging upside down would be a bad idea. By the time I felt like I could hang, that option was off the table.
Here is what I remember about the sequence:
Men to the ropes to hang in Sirsasana
Women to the window rope for rope downward facing dog or
Setubandha
Switch groups, switch groups again and again until everyone has a chance to hang.
Trikonasana with top arm holding the rope
Sirsasana
Dwipada viparita dandasana
Eka pada vipariti dandasana
Supta padangustasana I, II
Uttihta Padangustasana
Chair Sarvangasana
Savasana
