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Yet another great day!

Walk was good! M's blisters are starting to become less noticeable, and therefore less painful. She wore her converse today, with S's socks. S wore his barefoot trainers, with socks, his knee and hip felt better.

We started off with the intro to the Sutras (thread, like needle and thread) and looking at the Sutras 1-4. They're actually really nice, it talks about how you need to leave all of your vacillations and just be at one with The Seer (you). The most popular Sutra is probably: Yogaś citta-vritti-nirodhaḥ- translated to: yoga is the restraint of mental modifications. Sounds fluffy, but what defines you? A teacher? A lawyer? A peacemaker?... let it go, and be at one with The Seer, the real you. Deep, huh?!


We jumped into anatomy of feet and ankles. We have a stir-up made of the tendon that runs from the big muscle beside your tibia and a tendon that runs from your calf muscle. These tendons meet at the bottom arch of your foot and create a really cool stir-up- how 80's!


Our practice peaked at Ardha Chandrasana. It didn't seem like a really hard practice, but it was really slow, and really meant to tune you into every single muscle in your body, and what 
it's job is. M thinks it was the nicest practice she's done.


There was no yogi lunch on the lawn today, it was raining, we all sat in the studio and studied. While we were moving around, S farted! It was a pretty loud fart, yet no one looked at him. There are some really grounded yogis in that room. 


After lunch we had our second Asana Lab, remember? Circle of love, acceptance, and feedback. We did Trikonasana, Vira II, and Vrksasana. Neither S or M got to go into the middle mat to get feedback. Someday!
At the end we had practice teaching, where we practiced how to give simple action commands to our partner to get into the general form of a pose. S paired up with J, a really cool yogi. Eventually, 2 other boys joined the club. They all decided to get matching yoga tattoos, it evolved to each of them getting a single letter, so that all together they can spell yoga.... to eventually all four boys coming in at the end of the month, shirtless, with one letter painted on their chest, to spell yoga during our practice. 


We also got something that made S a little scared, a revision pack. It's 5 pages of revision questions for our final of Module I on Tuesday.  M is scared too, but as Erica (one of our instructors said), trust the process. What makes S & M feel better is the fact that everyone is there to help us, and nobody wants us to fail.


Good news! We're changing up our lunches! We have had cheese, tomato, and hummus sandwich for the last 4 days, but tomorrow were going native: casamiento (beans and rice), avocado and bread! It seems like Friday, but we have to go in on Saturday too, only until 1pm. 
After that on Saturday, we got invite from our one Vancouver friend, R,  to go to a bbq, we think YES!


Homework:
Craft a teaching scrip for Trikonasana
Colouring Anatomy Book p.40 and 65
Read Patanjali's Yoga Sutras 5-16
Review foot and Ankle anatomy
Try to memorize all the neutrally rotated standing poses as well as externally rotated standing poses - (WHAT?!)


Stay grounded


S and M


p.s. Our friend, Bell, suggested we either do a yoga dictionary with all the terms to make it clear for our non-yogi friends or link to a yoga dictionary somewhere out there in the big inter-web. We'll see what we can do for you this weekend.