November Updates
Schedule for November: * New Led Class: Saturdays 9 AM beginning November 8th *
Moon Days (No Practice): Wednesday, November 5th (Super Moon!) and Thurdsay, November 20th. There will also be only self practice on Friday, November 14th.
Sundays: 8:30 - 10 AM
Mondays: 8:30 - 10 AM
Tuesdays: 8:30 - 10 AM
Wednesdays: 8:30 - 10 AM Mysore with Mary
Thursdays: 8:30 - 10 AM Self Practice
Fridays: 8:30 - 10 AM Mysore with Kathy
* NEW * Saturdays: 9 - 10:30 AM Led with Mary
On Thursday night my husband, 14 year old daughter, and I went to a ghost tour at The Mount in Lenox. As we heard stories of dark eyed spirits lurking in the stable’s attic corners just above us, shivers ran up my spine and the hair on the back of my neck started to rise. It made me realize how great it feels to get scared - especially if you step out of your head and into your body as the sensation arises. Because that feeling is the feeling of being deeply lit up and alive. It can be woken up by darkness and fear and it can be lit up in so many other ways.
This got me thinking about the benefits of fear, and the fear that sometimes comes up in practice as you learn to drop back into a deep backbend, or touch your head down in prasarita padotasana for the first time, when you didn’t think you could and you’re sure you’ll fall over. And it got me thinking of the first time I practiced Ashtanga and felt like I’d taken ecstasy on my way home on the train from Brooklyn to Manhattan. All of this energy that hadn’t really been moving had suddenly started moving and it felt so good.
Sure you can hop on a roller coaster, watch a scary movie, or go to a haunted house to get a quick fix of energy running up your spine. Or you can learn how to wake it up yourself with the tools we learn to use in the Ashtanga Yoga practice. Using our breath, bandhas, and drishti to focus and control our own energy. Waking our spines up so that energy flows throughout our bodies more efficiently. And most of all tuning in to everything that is already here within you.
With that I am happy to announce that Mary is going to offer a new led class on Saturday Mornings at 9 AM beginning on November 8th!
Led classes are a great way to learn the traditional Ashtanga sequence and count. For those of you more used to vinyasa classes where everyone is moving together and doing the same thing at the same time, this will feel very familiar.
Thursdays have been especially quiet since we started over 6 months ago so Mary will no longer be teaching on Thursdays but you are more than welcome to come and self practice with me and I’m more than happy to help you where you most need it. I will continue teaching on Fridays.
Moon Days in November are this coming Wednesday, November 5th (super moon!) and Thursday, November 20th. I will be studying with my teacher, Christine Hoar in Vermont the week of the 10th to the 14th so Friday, the 14th will be self practice.
