This class will be delivered in five different “courses”: strengthening exercises, cocooned forward bends, inversions, heart openers, and Corpse Pose.
$12.00
There have been many times in my life when I have sat down to eat a meal with friends or family. The table gets set, the food gets put out on the table, the attendees sit down, and once the food and everyone is settled in their places, and whatever pre-dining rituals have been completed, the host frequently gives permission to eat by saying, “Dig in!”
Dig in is a curious expression.
The words indicate there is a pile of food, and one must use a tool/utensil to start shoveling down into the pile. The expression also hints at an action filled with effort and enthusiasm, repeated over and over. Whereas, digging into the earth creates a hole, digging into a pile of food fills the hole in our stomachs – the hole created by hunger.
Effort, enthusiasm, repetition. Honestly, these words also describe the energy and action we are supposed to apply to our yoga asana practice, too. There is a relationship between food and our physical body. Most of us understand this concept casually, but in yogic terminology, the connection is even more explicit.
Annamaya kosha, the name given to the flesh and blood part of our bodies, is translated as “the food body.” The yoga asanas (postures) are not only meant to make our spines strong and supple. They are also meant to help us assimilate and digest food efficiently and completely, purifying the physical container inside which our spirit resides. We are what we eat, literally.
I may not be serving you a pile of food to eat in this class, but I will serve you a highly nutritious, five course meal of yoga postures you can dig into with effort and enthusiasm.
What’s on the menu?
Our first course will be strengthening exercises you can attack with gusto. Slide into the hammock for our second course of forward bends, which will soothe your stomach like a warm soup. You’ll savor our third course, the main course, a spicy inverted heart opener, which will be paired with a side of vegetables – grounding heart openers. Follow this with a cooling inversion palate cleanser similar to a lemon sorbet, which will prepare us for the fifth and final course – a dessert of Savasana (corpse pose).
Don’t worry, casual apparel is still appropriate for this Unnata fine dining restaurant. But, reservations are necessary!