Archive for the ‘Forrest Yoga’ Category
The packers come today. I’m hitting the 0630 class before they arrive to help me stay sane, feet on the ground!
A week or so ago we did an exercise that really brought home to me the effect of active feet on the rest of the body. It’s quite a simple & elegant exercise that I’d [...]
Popped down to New Haven to take & teach a class at Fresh Yoga under the lovely eyes of Forrest Yoga mentor Heidi Sormaz.
Two distinct bits of feedback stand out for me.
1) Forrest Yoga focuses on opening & supporting the joints. When teaching it, prioritize giving cues that help with that very significant aspect of [...]
The phrase “Emotions in Motion” is a 1982 Billy Squier album, and also a Forrest bumpersticker-y thing. It’s something I’ve seen on t-shirts for years, but didn’t quite get till recently.
See, somehow, this past week I ended up with a surfeit of emotional energy. It has had me up, down, sideways, effervescent, angry, you name it.
The energy part though [...]
Not Dungeons & Dragons, though there’s nuthin wrong with that.
Dizziness & Downloads.
Very separate topics, but two short bits I wanted to share before getting on the road again (this weekend, Burlington, VT!).
Dizziness is one side effect I have from the medications I’m on.
(See
http://autumnlotusyoga.omblogger.com/2010/02/07/medication-update/
and http://autumnlotusyoga.omblogger.com/2010/01/14/outing-myself/)
The meds are amazing in many many ways. Predominantly, they quiet [...]
I’ve spent much of today compiling my final package to send in for full Forrest certification
It’s a complicated thing. Completing the Forrest Yoga Foundation Teacher Training means you get to be a 200 hr Registered Yoga Teacher with Yoga Alliance.
But you’re not a fully certified Forrest teacher yet. You’re an associate. Nothing wrong with that, [...]
A large part of this past weekend’s Forrest Yoga Mentorship program workshop was doing “seeing circles.”
A seeing circle is an element of the Forrest Yoga teacher training & a very interesting tool. Here’s how it goes.
- Take your group/class/trainees and warm up their eyes by putting them into a yoga pose (horse stance is popular cuz it [...]
I have been singing the Travelocity Traveling Gnome theme in my head alot recently. If you’ve seen the commercial you know it… “doo doot doot dooooo!” over & over. Because, as Beloved Husband is very willing to point out, I am, indeed, the happy traveling gnome.
This past weekend I was back at Fresh Yoga in New Haven [...]
This weekend’s Forrest Yoga Mentorship workshop with Heidi will focus on “seeing” or intuition.
When I went down to see her two weekends ago, I asked about how to practice my intuition… it’s something I’m quite interested in getting in touch with. Mostly because I seem to know fewer & fewer facts each day so I [...]
Woah, I’m traveling ALOT these days. Just coming back from a long weekend celebrating Founder’s Day at my alma mater (Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, NY) & only a few days here before back to New Haven!
For the few days on the road, practice was of the much abbreviated variety done in cramped hotel rooms. But I [...]
In Forrest Yoga there’s a concept called “beauty moments.” This means that each day, or hour, or minute, I try to find something beautiful, something that brightens my Spirit.
I have a list of topics to write about, including one on how to graciously leave a class as opposed to the way I did it once [...]