Class Thirteen

Suneeta came to class today with the same “If looks could kill” look in her eyes. If I think she is looking at me, I pretend I don’t notice, be casual, and keep looking. Frankly, her look is intimidating. There was some scolding/ridiculing today but less than other days and there were more helpful teaching points and specific instructions that were also helpful. And there was some nice linking between poses. She even made a joke that was not at anyone’s expense.

We did standing poses and then seated twists and everything was heat producing, especially after the power cut when the fans went out. My glasses fogged up more than once. The theme of the class was very much the same as last Wednesday, “Extend and rotate”. That would be the Suneeta rap for the month of October!

It was a hard class, an organic class (cleansing the kidneys). I was apparently not the only one who felt that was, especially in the seated twists because people were groaning and grunting and breathing hard. I liked it and it is more of what I expected the yoga to be like here.

Here’s what I remember about the sequence:

Adho Mukha Virasana

Adho Mukha Svanasana

Uttanasana

Some people went to the wall and tressler and others got a chair for standing poses. Facing the wall, tressler, or chair we did

Trikonasana

Parsvottanasana

Ardha Chandrasana

Parivrtta trikonasana

Baddhakonasana

Upa vista konasana

Upa vista konasana, bend the left leg to baddhakonasana, turn towards the leg. Repeat on left side. Then extend over the bent leg and extend and rotate, sweeping to the right side in a sort of parivrtta janusirsasana like shape of the pose

Parivrtta upa vista konasana

Parivrtta janusirsasana

Parivrtta dandasana/parivrtta paschimottanasana

Paschimottanasana

Sirsasana

Halasana

Savasana

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