Wiseguy stories from editor and yoga scholar Georg Feurstein’s anthology of swamis and yogi type of story, his book YOGA GEMS.
Every day Monday through Saturday, me, my dog Luna and I host a fifteen minute WAKE UP WITH YOGA/ wake up with this yoga channel. We three will do our best to re-activate the joys of Beginners Mind and renew practices with you. Many of these moves ancient Kumar practices, ha. The first 15 minutes of the livestream tomorrow is free to you and all.
We livestream rain or shine Monday through Saturday..
(Sounds of a radio tuning in to a rebel radio station from HARRY POTTER
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NARRATOR: Congratulations and welcome to the initial dirty dozen initial subscribers who support this channel. Thank you for your belief in this truthfinder and reformed psychopathic narcissist’s theatre artist playwright and transformational storyteller yoga channel, Kumar style. HA. I am a person for whom self-awareness may seem to come have slowly,but know that the slow pace has been necessary to untangle emotional attachments that reach back and forth through generations. Some subscribers and I go back two generations, some of you I’ve met recently. Some of you I’ve known across millennia, lol. ( SOUND: John Lennon’s ACROSS THE UNIVERSeplays.) . Kumar used to initiate conversations like that. Often the questions would involve both a conversational among those present and then some story from Kumar. Kumar was a natural performer whose physical understanding was genius, and who entertained guests of the most renowned swamis of the 1960a. Swamis Chetananda, Muktananda. The integral line, the Sivananda line, many many others. Some laughed or derided Kumar because he sold beer and wine, cigarettes, and doctored besan flour downstairs, while upstairs he hosted yoga practices.Iconoclastic Kumar. REMeMbeR, rain Or SHINE. TOMORROWand every day Monday through Saturday, 6:30 am Central Dallas, Texas time. see you soon, J
What is needed for hand balances? How do they build? How do we enter and exit? Where is shtira?
Beginning again means asking familiar questions and looking for the answers in the posture, observing what doesn’t work, and what does. Learning twice, and twice again in Beginners Mind.
I recorded this last night because I must be on the road during our usual time. Here we observe three planes of functional spinal movement with breath. I invite you to recall warm-ups of this past week and to practice from whatever you can recall. If you cannot recall, then reboot yr favorite livestream recording and use that.
This week marks the start of a new endeavor at the SAMURAI INTI Martial Arts Studio in Frisco. I’ll be teaching i a group class there at Sendai Sebastian Mejias ‘ dojo on Monday and Wednesday mornings.