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Jnanamaya Kosha: Understanding the Past and Future in the Ever Present Now

The Jnanamaya Kosha or Wisdom Body is the 4th (sheath, dimension, body, or kosha) identified in the koshic anatomical maps of yoga. This kosha will reveal experience beyond time and duality, where our differences collapse and a single moment contains eternity., Wisdom is timeless and of the moment, and at a certain point absolute right and wrong dissolve into merely moments and choices. It…

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Any yoga pose can be taught in a variety of ways, regardless of whether the student is a "beginner" or "advanced". What are trying to accomplish?

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Weekly Vinyasa Sequence

Each week I prepare a new vinyasa sequence to teach the following week. Some weeks I plan the sequence around a particular theme or area of the body or chakra. This week I plan to focus on core and obliques so this sequence includes extra core work in two areas as well as in various parts throughout the sequence. I take lots of guidance from my power yoga teacher training when composing a new…

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Yoga Diary 4/4 - 4/10

Logged a record number of teaching hours in a week this week: Mon, Tue, Thurs, Fri, at 7 AM, and Sunday morning and afternoon. (This is in addition to a full time job.) The hardest part was going to bed early enough to wake up at 5:30 to prep for class and get to the studio. On Tuesday, I woke up too late and panicked. Ended up arriving 3 minutes late to class but it wasn't as bad as I thought. But still, eek! This is a no-no. "If you aren't early, you are late," had said the studio owner, Steve, at teacher training. He's right. That said, students barely noticed.

The repetitive cadence was good - helped me iterate on the sequencing.

When not feeling creative but want to deliver a healthy, solid class, the basic hatha, or Iyengar progression works really well:

Opening, tune into breath, set intention

Sun salutations

External leg rotation poses: Warrior 2, half moon, side angle, etc.

Neutral leg rotation poses: Warrior 1, Parsvottanasana, Warrior3, etc.

Internal leg rotation poses: Wide legged forward bend, Twisted triangle, twisted side angle, twisted half moon, etc...

Back bends

Seated Twists

Inversion

Seated forward bend

Savasana