I had a great time teaching class yesterday afternoon.
We had a lovely discussion of How Yoga Works. Mostly everyone seems relieved it is a novel and "not philosophy." Unfortunately, Social World seems to leave a bad impression of philosophy in the minds of the average BIC student. We did have one philosophy major add the class today, Veronica, though Azem has withdrawn, mostly the students are anthropology, political science, international affairs, with some English, GTX, and fashion thrown in.
I had no intention to teach supta virasana, but I taught virasana and Megan started going into the pose, then others did and suddenly everyone was more or less in the pose, some with significant bolsterage but others not. It was really amazing to see because they really felt an effect of a pose quite viscerally.
We laughed a lot about inner winds and channels and the like and then it was time to go. Touched on pranayama at the end.
I introduced the concept of bavana and talked a bit about sheaths and organs of action and perception and we also discussed why one might want to still the vrttis.
We had a lovely discussion of How Yoga Works. Mostly everyone seems relieved it is a novel and "not philosophy." Unfortunately, Social World seems to leave a bad impression of philosophy in the minds of the average BIC student. We did have one philosophy major add the class today, Veronica, though Azem has withdrawn, mostly the students are anthropology, political science, international affairs, with some English, GTX, and fashion thrown in.
I had no intention to teach supta virasana, but I taught virasana and Megan started going into the pose, then others did and suddenly everyone was more or less in the pose, some with significant bolsterage but others not. It was really amazing to see because they really felt an effect of a pose quite viscerally.
We laughed a lot about inner winds and channels and the like and then it was time to go. Touched on pranayama at the end.
I introduced the concept of bavana and talked a bit about sheaths and organs of action and perception and we also discussed why one might want to still the vrttis.
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