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1)
Janu
Sirasana
(Head Beyond Knee)
Start by sitting
on the floor in a Seated Staff posture. Bend your right knee
off to the side, drawing the sole of the right foot towards
the inside edge of your left thigh. Keeping
your hips square to the front. Lengthen through the left
heel, as you inhale raise, your arms over the head. Rotate
from the lower abs to turn your torso towards your left
foot, lining up your chest with your left thighbone.
Lengthen up on your spine, as you exhale, fold the upper
body, drawing the abs in, towards that extended leg, grasp
the left foot with both hands. On the inhale draw arms and
torso upwards, continuing the length of both, slow and
controlled and return back to your seated staff posture.
Suggestive Props: Folded towel or blanket to raise your
hips up for added support and length.
2)
Paschimottanasana
(Double Leg Forward Stretch)
Come to your
seated staff pose, placing your palms or fingertips to the
floor besides the hips. Tilt the pelvis forward so your
weight to towards the front edge of the sitting bones.
Anchoring the sitting bones to the floor, on the inhale,
raise arms up above the head, while lengthening the spine
upwards. On the exhale, draw your abs in towards the spine,
when you fold the upper body forward. While drawing your
chest area towards the knees, keep the length of the spine
true without rounding out. Slowly draw your arms and spine
upwards with control, on your inhale, then return to the
seated staff pose.
Suggestive Props: Folded towel or blanket to raise your
hips up for added support and length.
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Breathing
through Sound
Through each yoga posture, we can either intensify
or therapeutically calm down our daily practice, by using
various sound techniques. Focus with your awareness, by
starting with a simple syllable type of chants and
developing it into phrases, prayers, or songs. Each sound
creates internal vibrations to increase circulation
throughout the body. The effects is determined by how
sound is used with particular vowels and consonants and
the level of pitch and volume. To increase the pitch you
are energizing your systems, while lowering the pitch your
systems becomes calm.
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 In
a dream, I saw myself as a great butterfly
With
wings that spanned all of creation
Now
I am not sure if I was Chuang-Tsu
Dreaming
I was a butterfly,
Or
if I am a butterfly dreaming I am Chuang-Tsu
Chinese Patriarch Chuang-Tsu
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Hind
(Eilid: Pronunciation
- Elij) 
Gentleness, Swiftness, and Grace
Sophistication, Subtlety, and
Elegance
Thinking beyond the realm of
effects but focuses on the cause of a situation
Abundance, Intuition,
Introspection, and Alternative paths to a goal
Fertility, Love, Safety, and
Serenity
Exploration to the Underworld
towards the spiritual dimension of life
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