Pigeon Pose

Welcome back. Thank you Matt and Sarah and Juna for being here. And so we'll take a look at a shape that usually gets called pigeon. Okay, my friends. And just watch. Again, the benefit of another allowing you to watch is to learn. Okay. And you'll notice that Juna has decided to stay upright a little longer. Okay. You'll notice that as Sarah has come down she's chosen to put her hands flat down on the floor. And you'll notice that Matt has chosen to turn his palms up. And just because of the greatest variety here is happening really between Matt and Sarah, we'll take a little bit more of a look at them. And Juna, you're welcome to stay there and bake in there or find your way towards child's as you would like. And so just notice, like just take a notice and a moment to notice, like the relative relationship of Sarah's hips to the floor and the relationship of Matt's hips to the floor. And if you've been hanging out with us for a while, you would have seen the way their different triangles looked or revolving side angles. And so just like, again, like an instruction, if the insistence is for Matt's right hip to be on the floor, Matt, can you show what you need to do to get your right hip to the floor? Like Matt needs to roll basically onto his right hip and it takes it out of the stretch. Okay, will you come back into the shape? And sometimes, you know, it'll be the implication that you want to have some support under here. The reason that you might have a prop under here, like a blanket or a bolster, it's just simply so Matt's hip can relax a little bit more and he might be able to find more stretch, he might not. That seems to be a very individual personal yogi decision. Okay, a couple more moments each of you. Sarah, just for fun, just notice, like just a copy Matt for a moment, notice how it feels if your palms are turned up. Okay, and so just you might try this at home too, like palms down can sometimes really feel like a sense that you're gonna make your way through it and palms up sometimes it can just create just a gentler sense of vulnerability and offering. Okay, okay, well all of you find your way out of that, maybe towards child's pose and rest. Nice, beautiful. Okay, so again the play here is to find out what your body likes and what your body does and it's nice to be able to see what other people's bodies do and appreciate it. The difficulty is that it's so easy to move into a comparative judgment and decide that we are either better or worse than others. The play is to be an embrace of each other.