This short practice blended well is the slight after effects of a covid/flu combo shot yesterday.  Yin always shows me the peace between the thoughts, reality found within the moment.  So short found its place with me on this morning, the gentle stretches let me explore my body waking up to sensations of this new day.

This was truly invigorating! It reminded me of the yoga I used to practice, but the experience was elevated by the longer and more mindful moments of instruction.

Beautiful 💞

More great shoulder release.  I was able to (almost) get to my back doing a half saddle on each side.  Learning better to slowly lean into areas I let myself assume were at their limit.  This practice must have opened my heart in more ways than one.  Had a light walk with the pups, greeting people and my dogs were strangely well behaved. 😀🐶

Loved this practice.  Reached deep into old injures and finding a normalization.  Ample time for "finding that point of nothingness" too.  I can't but help "taking it into the rest of the day"....🕊️

That "Notice how you feel" moment at the end.  I first noticed the deep, rich, colors of the room, then my spine was all a rush.  Through this practice I was total in my breath, working deeper and deeper in to poses and relishing the freedom to "find what feels good" for myself.  I recalled at one point in the past you had taught me how to take a deep breath, how I needed to achieve one.  Drawing the breath in, then pausing, then drawing in more, before exhale.  I see my breath is getting stronger and so my poses and concentration.  My OMs responded with yours, my smile as well.  Namaste 

Met the mat with a lot of stress and tightness (which I wasn't even aware).  This practice gave me such a release.  An hour with a blank to-go list... nirvana.🕊️

Really loved the side stretches and hip openers working with the bolster.  I love yin yoga so much.  It makes me even more conscientious of steps through the day that benefit my overall health.  Thank you Devi!

Really felt my activated spine after rolling up the mat.  The signal for the poses end caught me a little off guard as I was looking around the room for which device wanted my attention. 😀  Finding new ways to gradually work my way into a deeper half saddle.  This will be a good go-to practice often.  

Later that same morning: I can really feel the muscle work in my shoulder and back.  I'm starting to see the sneaky side of you Devi. 😉

After a middle of the night Chakra Meditation With Bija Mantras, I woke with an unusual sense of the the emotion of loneliness.  Observing this emotion I met the mat and found a keen focus on the breath throughout.  Finding my position was secondary to the breath work which followed and embraced each deepening.  Sutra 27 thereafter was my reading for today, such a perfect fit.  I recalled a poem I wrote decades ago.  Too long to paste here, but it ends with...

So loneliness it seems is to be part of our scenery

 Riding on the cold wind that blows in from time to time

 It stays behind when all else has flown south

 Awakened in the morn by a ray of light

 It's proclamation part of our purpose

 And in that moment find loneliness takes flight

 With the empty hope that loneliness with come to nest no more