Chandra, Ganesh & Our Actions

Hi. Welcome to practice. My name is Ashley. And for today's practice, you'll want to have a blanket, a strap, and two blocks. We're going to take our blanket. From a shoulder stand fold and open it out.

We're getting crazy. We're gonna open it out again. The whole remodel. So I'm gonna open it fully out, which I guess is where I could have started this conversation, but that was more fun. And then fold it in half so that it covers the shape of your mom.

Like so. Today's class is just folding with Ashley. Okay. Voila. So once you've covered your mat, you can meet me lying down.

And as we start, take any position in the legs that feels best on your lower back. Often for me, at the beginning of class, legs out long can sometimes feel a little bit too much on my lower back. So if you're in that camp, maybe you start as we often do in constructive rest, separate feet as wide as the mat, turn your toes slightly in and invite your knees to fall toward each other. If you're craving a bit of added grounding, consider resting your hands on your front body. Otherwise, hands can be of the sides of your body.

And either close your eyes or find a point to softly focus on. As we take a few moments to drop in and to fully arrive in this present moment. Observe the quality of your breath without doing anything to shift or change it just yet. Simply inviting yourself to be present with what is. As you settle in to your unique rhythm, layer in an intention for today's practice.

Once you have that gathered, if you'd like from this place of support, you're welcome to join me in an opening home. Nice full breath in. Blink your eyes back open. Separate your knees. And heel to your feet toward each other until they're about the distance of your front hip points.

Give a scoop of your abdomen in and lengthen through your lower back. So we're tilting the pelvis subtly backwards. And then shift your hips and your knees slightly to the left, feeling a little bit more of the back left side of your pelvis, tilt the pelvis forward so tailbone moves down towards the mat. And then bring knees over to the right a bit, coil your abdomen in as you come back through center. And it's like you're drawing the tiniest little circle around your sacrum.

Do this one more time for a total of three. No rush. And then begin to draw your tiny, tiny circles back the opposite way. Three times. So today we get to know Ginesh and Chandra.

Ginesh is often known as the remover of obstacles sometimes the placer of them, Chandra, the moon. So pausing back center, take your right knee and open it to the side and let your left hip follow you. Slide your right foot forward like you would for Shavasana, coming a little bit more onto the back of the pelvis. And then open left knee to the left, right leg might follow a little. And then stretch your left leg out long.

Shavasana, retrace the pathway, bend right knee out to the right, and draw it up. Bend left knee out to the left, and draw it up. And do that again. Right knee to the right. Let the hips follow with the movement.

Left knee to the left and slide it forward. Right knee to the right. And draw it up. Left knee to the left and draw it up. Do this one more time leading with the right leg.

I don't know if there's a formal name for this, but in my mind, I always call it hip gliding. It's to help release the psoas and give a little bit of freedom to the back, to the hips. So we're gonna do this again leading with the left leg. Open left knee to the left. And again, let your pelvis naturally follow.

Slide your left heel forward. And then right knee to the right, left leg may follow a bit and slide right heel forward. Open left knee to the left and bring the knee back up. Open right knee to the right and bring it back up. Twice more again leading with the left side.

No rush. So Ginesh is a great lover of sweets. And he's often pictured with Prasad, with a little bowl of sweets nearby. And on one particular evening, he'd gone to a soiree or an event of some kind and stuffed his tummy with all the delicious sweets the party had to offer. Pause with both knees up.

Bring your right knee in toward your chest and grab your strap Take your strap around the ball of your right foot and stretch your right foot up to the sky. Press the ball of your big toe up against the strap and draw the pinky edge of the foot down. If it feels alright through your lower back and through your hamstrings, you can straighten your left leg out long on the mat and flex through the left foot like you're pressing it up against a wall. Breathe out, lift head, lift shoulders gaze down your body. And notice if the left toesies are wandering to the side. And if you can't quite see them, feel for that. Spend in our left side down until me and toes point straight up, and then put your head and your shoulders back on the mat.

From your right hip socket, rotate your right leg until your right toes angle a bit off to the right, keep that rotation, and now put both sides of the strap into your right hand. Place your left hand on your left front hip point as a reminder to ground the left hip. And as you inhale, open right leg to the right. And instead of letting it follow, like it did in our hip gliding, we only take the right leg again open to the side as far as we can go keeping left hip anchored. Once the foot is open, take a peek at your foot.

And to check that we've kept the external rotation of the leg, we're looking to see that the heel is maybe subtly higher than the toesies. Take a breath down your body to the root of your pelvis and exhale as though you could for the inseam of your legs. Exhale bring your leg back up. And then re bend your left knee. Take your left foot inside the strap.

Take your right foot out and place the base of the right foot down. Press the ball of your big toe up against the strap use the strap to guide the pinky edge of the foot down. If it feels alright through your lower back, through your hamstring straight, and your right leg long on the mat, and flex through your right foot. Breathe out, lift head, lift shoulders gaze down your body, And again, if you could see the toes wandering to the side spin inner thigh down. If we're not seeing the toes, again feel for that shape. Well, put your head and your shoulders back down.

Place both sides of the strap into your left hand and set your right hand on your right front hip point as a reminder to anchor the right hip this time. From your left hip socket, rotate left leg so left toes angle a little off to the left. Hold that rotation And as you inhale open left leg to the side, if you feel the right hip pulling away from the ground, it lets us know we've gone a little too far. Lift the leg a touch higher. Keep the anchor.

And again, you can check to make sure you've maintained the rotation in the leg by peaking at your left foot. And ideally we're looking to see the left heel a touch higher than the left toesies. One full breath down your body to the root of the pelvis, exhale a pathway through your inner thighs. And with your next breath out, bring your left leg back up, and bend your right knee, place base of the foot on the ground, remove the strap from around your left foot, and set your strap off to the side. Place left foot down if you haven't already.

Separate your feet as wide as your mat, open your arms straight out to the sides, hands about the height of your shoulders. And keeping your feet wide, send your knees to the left like windshield wipers. If this is creating any stress or strain through the inner right knee, you can stack knees, stack hips instead, or place a prop underneath your right knee to support it. Okay. If that is not your story and you feel it will be a kindness to add a little bit more length to the top of the thigh, you can place your left foot just above your right knee.

And allow the weight of the foot to draw the top of the thigh down and away from the waist. And remembering that subtle little pelvic tilt we took at the very top of class, give a teensy scoop of your abdomen in. And the goal here is not to remove the curvature of the lower back this time, but just to give enough support to the low back that we get the focus stretch through front of hip, top of thigh without the crunch. Reach your right arm in line with your ear and turn your head in the same direction as your knees. Take a full breath all the way up the length of your right body to the tips of your fingers.

Exhale back down the right body. And, hook left foot if you brought it over, and how bring your knees up and open right arm to the right. Keep your feet wide as you send your knees this time to the right. Again, if you're feeling stress or pressure through the inner left knee, you're welcome to stack your knees, stack your hips, or prop the inner knee. If you're looking for a little bit more length, a little more resistance, take your right foot, stack it above the left knee, and allow the weight of the foot again to draw a bit more length of the front of your hip, the top of your thigh.

If you feel that moving into the arch of your back, scoop the pit of your abdomen in, again, not to flatten the back, but to support its natural curvature. Reach left arm in line with your ear and maybe turn head in the same direction as your knees. Take a breath all the way up the left side of your body to the tips of your fingers. Exhale back down the left side of your body. And then unhook your right foot.

And how bring your knees back up. Reach your arms overhead. And heel toe feet toward each other till they're about the distance of your front hip points. With an exhale, bring left knee in, invite right knee to follow, cross at your ankles, hook hands to the back of your thighs, and rock yourself up to seated. Alright.

Take this lovely blanket. We thank it for its service. Fold it back up and set it off to the side. Come find your tabletop pose facing the top short end of your mat, tuck your toes under and walk your fingertips back in front of your knees. Shift back onto the balls of your feet.

And then take heels to the earth as you slowly straighten your legs to a comfortable edge for your body. Let head and neck go. Inhale reach your chest straight forward. Maybe this first round take hands to the shins to give yourself more space to play with. And then exhale, bend your knees, drape ribs all over your thighs, let head and neck go. Keep knees bent, tuck your chin as you roll yourself up to standing one little boom at a time.

When your head reaches the top, maybe you invite your hands to follow reach up and exhale to your heart center. Take a walk to the top of your mat, tadasana. And choose your mountain pose. So this might look like feet touching, if that feels unsteady, if the low back is tender today. Give yourself more space.

Feed about hip distance apart instead. Roll your inner thighs back and bring the pit of your abdomen in. You can stay facing the top short end of the mat. I'm gonna turn to face you so you can better see what I'm up to. Shift your weight onto your left foot and come to the toes of your right.

From your hip socket, rotate the leg, open your hip only as far as you can go without turning your pelvis, just like we did lying down. Bring the pit of your abdomen in and you can stay right here, toes on the ground, heel against the opposite leg. You might slide your foot to your inner calf or if you feel steady doing so, place the foot against your upper inner thigh. What serves you best? Press foot into leg, leg into foot.

Again, draw your bum down as you lift your heart. Join hands together at heart center. And if and when you're ready reach your arms in line with your ears. Growing your branches for vikasana tree pose. X, I'll bring your hands right back to your heart, draw your knee forward, and then with your right hand, see if you can grab hold of your right foot.

If you feel a little wobbly today, feel free to hold onto a piece of furniture or move yourself near a wall. If grabbing the foot is not accessible, take your sharp around the foot, give yourself a little more length of space. Touch of a bin to the standing leg knee. Draw the knees level with each other. And notice once again as we meet the resistance of the front of the hip, the top of the thigh, there's a tendency to tip the pelvis forward.

Lift, hip points towards your bottom ribs, like you're putting tiny suspenders on. To get the focus length through the front of the hip, the top of the thigh. And then without letting it hit the earth, let your foot go. Briefly bring me towards your chest, hands to your heart. And with an inhale, press your heel back, heart forward. Take hands to the earth or if the earth feels far, put your hands on props.

Bend left knee deeply step way back with your right foot and set your back knee down, uncurl your toes. Press down, inhale, rise up, reach up Arda Anjaniasana half crescent exhale hips forward hands down. Bring your left knee next to your right knee coming back to your tabletop. And if your knees are tender on the earth, take time to open a blanket below them. Step your right foot out to the right and point your toes straight forward.

Walk your left hand just off the left side of your mat and bring your right hand into the midline of the mat. Shift your body over to the left so that left shoulder is back on top of your left wrist. Grip the earth lovingly with your left fingertips and come high onto your right fingertips. If you feel steady doing so, pick up your right leg Hug your left hip in. Bend right knee like you're gonna kick yourself in the bum. I'm gonna go a touch wider with my left hand.

You can follow my lead if that gives you more stability. Draw right hand toward you. And if you feel steady doing so, pick up your right hand see if you can grab your right foot. Smooth the bum away from the waist as you lengthen open through the front of your hip, the top of your thigh, and breathe into the expanse of your heart. Again, here, can you find those tiny suspenders enough to support the natural curve of the low back as we look for the backbend in the upper back?

And then release your foot maybe briefly taking your top arm up. Acts, I'll bring right hand down, right hip down, each hand back under its own shoulder, set your toesies down. Step it back to your plank pose top of a push up and glide forward. Use knees if you'd like the added support, stack elbows over wrists as you lower all the way to meet the mat. Once you're there, brush your toes back.

Pull back with your palms. Guide your body forward. Find the strengthening work of low cobra. X. I'll right back to the mat. Tuck your toes under, walk them in.

Inhale to your plank or your hands and your knees and exhale take your hips up and back, down dog. Inhale, lift right leg. And exhale, bring knee to nose, float shoulders over your wrists, step right foot forward between your hands. Set your back knee down, pat it with a blanket if it's tender. Uncurl your toes, press down, inhale, rise up, reach up, interlace your fingers with your palms to the sky.

Draw your ribs in as you open your heart. And as you exhale revolve to the right. Notice if right hip hiked up toward the waist, can you draw it down, hug it in. Open your arms out, send left hand to the front of the mat, right fingertips to the back of the mat, and then exhale unwind. Once more, reach up and exhale hands to the earth. Tuck your back toes under, lift your back knee.

Wop your back foot up to meet your front foot and inhale draw your chest straight forward. EX, how fold forward, press down, inhale to rise all the way up. X, how hands to your heart. Now, through that first round, if you found bringing your hands to the ground and transition, felt a little far away. Consider having your blocks ready and reaching distance as I'm going to do this time through.

Take your hands to your hips, shift your weight this time onto your right foot, come to the toes of your left. From left hip socket, rotate your leg open. And again, if right hip follows, it just lets us know we've gone a little too far. Go only as far as you can go, keeping hit points facing the wall in front of you. Toast can stay on the earth, foot may slide to inner calf.

Or again, if you feel steady doing so, place foot against your upper inner thigh. What do you need today? Yep. Bring your tailbone down as you lift your sternum up And if and when you're ready, join your hands at your heart. You may stay right here.

If you feel steady doing so, reach your arms in line with your ears, Richasana Trepos. And then exhale hands to your heart, bring your knee forward, and then send left foot back into your left hand. I mentioned on that first side, if the foot isn't there, snag it with a strap. I'm gonna take my foot onto the strap just to show one way here criss cross, and then I take loop over the shoulder. Alright. So same work that we've been exploring throughout little bend in your standing leg knee, pit of the abdomen in.

So working that connection to the core to protect the lower back as we look for the length in the front of the hip, the top of the thigh, whether you'll be using strap or holding foot. Alright. And if you are using your strap, let it go. Set it off to the side. Everyone bring left knee up.

Arms up, exhale hands to your heart, send left heel back, heart forward, hands can meet the earth or your props, lengthen your spine. And as you exhale bend the right knee, Step way back, high lunge. Put your back knee down, pat it if it's tender, uncurl your toes, press down, inhale, rise up, reach up. Exhale, hips forward, hands down. Bring right knee next to your left knee, find your tabletop.

This time stretch your left foot off to the left point left toes straight forward. Walk your right hand just off the right of your mat and bring your left hand a little bit more into the center of the mat. Shift your body weight to the right so right shoulder is more aligned over right wrist again. Come high to left fingertips, grip the earth lovingly with your right fingertips. If you feel steady doing so, pick up your left leg from your right hip in.

Bend left knee like you're gonna kick yourself in the bum Draw left hand toward you at a diagonal. You can keep the hand down for support the whole time. You might reach back. Find your foot with your hand. Move the bum away from the waist as you lengthen open through the front of your hip, the top of your thigh.

Bring your bottom shoulder out of your ear, open your chest. And restrain your leg, press your heel back, reach up. Roll hip down, bring hand down, reset right hand underneath your shoulder, and then set your toesies down. Either shift forward through a vinyasa of your choosing. Or you can move it straight back to your downward facing dog.

What do you need? So unless we left my friend, Ginesh, he was happily leaving a party with a belly full of sweets. Ginesh with his big elephant head in his beautiful rotund body has one of the smallest vehicles to travel through the world on. Inhale lift your left leg. And as you exhale knee to nose, Step foot forward between your hands, set back knee down.

Uncurl your toes, press down, inhale, rise up, reach up, interlace your fingers, flip your palms skyward. Next, I'll keep arms up as you revolve to the left. Notice if left hip hiked. Draw left hip down. Bring your navel back.

And then twist. Send right fingertips forward. Left fingertips back. Exhale unwind, bring both hands forward, sweep both arms up. XL, hips forward, hands down. Tuck your back toes under, lift your back knee hop back foot up to meet your front foot.

Inhale lengthen halfway lift, exhale fold in. Let your head and neck go. Root down. Inhale circle your arms up and overhead. And exhale take hands to your heart. Have you been dying with anticipation of what this tiny vehicle is? It's a mouse. Tiny little mouse.

He rides in on one foot. Right? Route down in house, circle your arms overhead again. Exhale fold into self. Inhale lengthen your spine. Bend your knees, plant your hands, step or float through any vinyasa you need.

So ganesha's riding home in the evening honest tiny little mouse, and a snake comes across their path. Natural enemy of the mouse. So the mouse freaks out, darts one direction. Ginesh falls the other way. Inhale, lift your right leg, open your hip, put a bend in the knee and really push the earth away.

Restrate in the leg, roll your hip down, hug knee to nose and step right foot forward between your hands. Pivot your back heel down, heel to arch, scoop your right cheek under you, and then press down, windmill up and open, virabhadrasana two, warrior two. Press into both feet straight near front leg reach to the sky. And exhale lower it right back in. Do that one more time, inhale come up and out.

Exhale lower and stay. Reach out over your front leg. Take your forearm to your thigh And if you feel like you're gripping the earth with your toesies, pick them up a minute, center in the center of your heel. Slice through the air with the thumb side of your hand. Turn open through your chest, drawing a full circle, reach back.

Do that again. Last one. So when Ginesh hits the ground, pause with your hand up, his belly bursts and his sweets go everywhere. Press down, pick your body up. Press through the mound of your right big toe as you straighten your leg.

Shift your hips back and reach. And when you can't shift or reach anymore, take your right hand to the earth, If that causes you to crunch through your bottom waist, put a hand on a block. Smooth bum toward the back heel, put your little suspenders on. Turn open for your heart, top hand to the sky. Bring your bottom shoulder out of your ear and onto your back for Utitatriconasana extended triangle pose.

Press down, inhale, rise up. Acts, how re bend right knee, cart real your hands to the mat. Find the ball of your back foot, step to plank, choose your vinyasa. So, Ginesh gets up immediately starts gathering all of his sweets he's lost. Stuffs them back in his tummy, grabs the snake and ties it around his belly to keep it shut. As one naturally would, inhale, lift your left leg.

Open your hip, put a bend in your knee. Push the earth away. Get long. Re straighten your leg, roll your hip down. And as you exhale, step it forward.

Pivot your back heel down, heel to arch, bring your left hip under. Press down and windmill up and open Vira badrasana two. Warrior two. Press down in, how rise up, reach up. X, how we bend the knee, lower in.

Do that one more time, inhale, pick it up. X, how lower. And stay. Reach out over your front leg. Take forearm to the thigh. Again, if you're gripping the earth with your toesies, pick them up a moment, share with the heel of your foot.

Slice down with the thumb side of your hand. Forward, up And back, do that twice more. So Chondra, the moon has been up in the sky witnessing this whole catastrophe, and he can't help but burst out laughing. Pause with your top hand to the sky. Press down in how bring yourself up.

Press to the ball of your left big toe straighten the leg. Shift your hips back as you reach out over your front leg And again, when you can't shift or reach anymore, take left hand to the earth or a prop. Pick the option that offers even length through the sides of your waist. Take top hand to the sky. Bring bottom shoulder out of your ear.

And as you open your chest, absorb your ribs. Maybe you look up, try to get a glimpse of Chandra giggling in the sky. Press down in house, stand it up. X how revenge your left knee. Cart reel your hands to the mat.

Find the ball of your back foot. Step to your plank and through one final vinyasa of your choosing. So, Ginesh, though an adorable being out there clearing obstacles for us, is also the son of Shiva, which means there's a little temper, a little rage inside there. Walk your hands back to meet your feet. Draw your heart forward, lengthen through your spine.

Acts how fold in, and then press down in how rise up, exhale, hands to your heart. Grab your two blocks and tape the blocks nice and wide behind you. If you haven't already followed my lead, come to the center of your mat facing one of the long edges. Give a little bend to your knees, bring your fingertips together at heart, height, and you may either step or thoughtfully, hop your feet out to roughly your wingspan distance. Once you have your distance set, lower your arms, angle your left toes slightly in.

From right hip socket, rotate your whole right leg open and align heel to arch. If that feels like it's putting a lot of pressure on your outer hip, you're welcome to go a little more heel to heel. Press the weight a bit more into the ball of the foot just like we did with foot against the strap at the top of class. Stay heavy in the ball of the foot as you once again shift your hips back and reach way out over your front leg. Take Right hand to your prop this time, give yourself some added height to work with, and put your top hand on your hip. Direct tailbone towards your back heel and heart away from your navel.

You may stay right here. If you'd like to explore the balance a little further, look down. Bend your right knee on top of your ankle and walk your hand and or block forward at an angle of your baby too. Slide back foot halfway in, pause, look at your front knee. If it's drifting in, scoop your right hip under you again.

Walk right hand a little further forward, tip forward, lift off of your back leg. Per maybe. You bring me toward you, see if you can grab the top of the foot. And just like we did with the knee down earlier, hug the right cheek in and underneath you as you lengthen open through the front of the hip and the top of your thigh. Smooth bum away from your waist as you expand your heart.

So this is Chapasana sugarcane pose in Arta Chandra half moon posts. Press your heel back, reach your top arm up, returning to half moon. And then bring your top hand to the hip gaze to the earth. Bend right knee deeply step way back with your left foot. Reset heal to arch, elongate your spine. Turn open through your chest, top hand to the sky, press down.

Stand up. Lower your arms parallel your feet. Engle your right toes slightly in from the left hip socket, rotate left leg open. A line, heel to arch, or a little wider for more freedom of space, more stability. Poor weight heavier to the ball of your front foot, shift hips back and reach.

And again, when you can't shift or reach anymore, take hand to the block. Bring your top hand to your hip and gaze to the floor. Again, you may opt to stay right here. Otherwise, bend left knee on top of your ankle, walk hand and or block forward at an angle of your baby toe. And bring your back foot halfway in. Look at your knee.

If it drifted in, wrap left cheek under you a little more and then walk front hand forward. Tip forward, lift off your back leg. Smooth bum away from your waist. You can stay here. You might bend the top knee and if it's there without pain or strain, grab the front of the ankle or the top of the foot.

Continue to wrap left cheek under you. Put your little suspenders on and open and expand your heart. We're balancing like ganesh on his little mouse. And then let the foot go if you have it press the heel back as you reach the hand toward the moon for half moon pose. And hand to your hip, bend to your knee, step it back.

Straighten your front leg, elongate your spine and turn open through your chest. Press down, stand up. Parallel your feet. Take your hands to your hips. Inhale, shine heart to the sky.

Xhale, wait a little forward in your feet. Fold it in. If the earth feels far away to take your hands to, bring your hands to your blocks. Inhale lengthen through your spine. We just hold it for a beat and then bring your feet in a couple heel toes.

Oop. Set your left knee down. Your right knee down. If you are using your blocks, you can set them off to the side. So as mentioning Ginesh in this temper, He rips one of his tusks off of his face, throws it up into the sky, piercing the moon, and the world is not left in darkness, but with the moon gone, sunshine, sunlight all the time.

Stretch your legs long out in front of you. If you're rounding through your back or collapsing through your chest, sit on the edge of a blanket, enough to tilt the pelvis slightly forward and return the natural curve of your low back. Bend your right knee and make about a fist worth of space between foot and opposite leg. Flex through your left foot, press hands against the leg and elongate your spine. Inhaug, reach right arm up, exhale twist, right fingertips down behind you.

Inhale, left arm up, and exhale left elbow to the outside of your right thigh. For variation of Marichyasana C. So people are getting scorched. Also, they're like, oh, the romance is gone from the world when there's never darkness. We need the balance of the day and the night.

So a bunch of the gods go to Ginesh and try to appeal to him. Hey, what can we do about this thing? Like, you got rid of Chandra. We need we need Chandra around. Exhale unwind, stretch your right leg out long, bend your left knee, and again make about a fist worth of space between foot and opposite leg. Hands to front of shin from shoulders against your back. Inhale sweep your left arm up, exhale twist to the left.

Grow a bit longer through the front of your body. If you can keep even length through front and back body, reach your right arm up, and maybe you hook right elbow to the outside of your left thigh. So Ganesha's flattered that all of these people have come to him to beg a favor, and he's like, yeah, yeah. I'll bring the moon back, but the moon's got to learn a lesson. It's only gonna get to shine at full force once a month.

And so began the phases of the moon waning and waxing. And exhale unwind, straighten through both legs, inhale both thumbs up, and with an exhale fold lovingly into self. Breathe into the expanse of your back. And with the exhale, maybe you soften a little more into self. If the feet are not there for the holding, you can either use your strap, or as I'm doing right now, put hands alongside the legs.

So Ganesha didn't get off scot free in this either. He has to walk around in the world with a broken tusk as a reminder of his hot temper. Inhale, reach your heart forward. Slide your hands back. And if you're sitting on a prop, scooch off of it.

Set your blanket off to the side unless you'd like to incorporate it into your shabbat and in some way. As you come to lie back, if the body would like a last squeeze, honor that. And in your own time, let everything go. Find the Shavasana that best supports you. So twenty four seven daylight can be a little too much.

Just as twenty four seven nighttime could be a little too much. And we're looking in our practice, in our life for the balancing of duality, the light, the dark, the hot, the cold. Usually, it is the contrast of the two that help us recognize the other and appreciate the other cultivating in time, evenness, balance. If you're at ease as you are, stay as you are as long as you'd like. Otherwise, welcome a bit of movement back to fingers, back to toes.

Then inhale reach your arms overhead and stretch your toesies forward in opposition. In the balance of the two welcoming in an even stretch. And then exhale, bend your knees. Roll on to your side and pause for a beater too. In your own time, press the earth away and bring yourself up to seated.

And as we join the left this moon side of our body and the right, this sun fiery side of our bodies together. Invite in the evenness. A little bit of the fire of ganache without the rays. A bit of the lightheartedness, the softness, the cooling of the moon without the making fun. And in the in between, we find warmth and love.

Lift your chest. We bow our chins in gratitude. Thank you for sharing your practice