in kids yoga, you get to know the self by building up/exploring/taking on
*
in adult yoga, you get to know the self by shedding/letting go/releasing

maybe the purpose of us being here, wherever we are, is to increase the durability and the occasions of love among and between peoples.
-june jordan

hey y’all!

i’m helping to host a Kids Yoga Teacher Training with MiniYogis in LA…here, in NYC! its a 1-day event on sept. 5th, focusing primarily on kids ages 3-8. through the use of games, themes, music, books and other props, we will transform traditional practice into a creative, stimulating, and FUN experience for kids. you’ll experience a mini yogi class for kids with real live miniyogis and receive your children’s yoga certification through the program! it should be really fun, and uber-helpful if you want to bring yoga to young people, whether in the classroom, through a studio of phys ed environment, or even to kids in your own life….

check it!

http://www.miniyogis.com/teacher_nyc.htm

and email me for info or to register:

sarah.herrington@gmail.com

namaste!!

new photos from Ted Sabarase

thank you
for hearing
your name when you were face-down on the street
with the world above and beneath you
in a You sandwich-

thank you, for
the broken promises
and adding to the
disappointment collection
and how there are
millions of coins at the bottom of your bag that must
add up
to some
thing

and how you plugged along heel toe heel toe
with your head straining for the sky despite yourself
your heart still open to what was ahead of you, despite yourself
your uprightness, consistently you breathed in
despite yourself

you were an onward thing
(was this thanks enough?)

Found this on YouTube….I love this video of Indra Devi, and how she moves up to hear what was written for her more clearly

Indra who?

*Indra Devi was known as the “first lady” of yoga. She was the first western woman ever to study in an Indian ashram (and one of the first women, period). In the 1930s she became a student of Krishnamacharya, whose other students included Iyengar and Pattabhi Jois. After a year, Krishnamacharya urged her to teach, and she did so the rest of her life, opening a yoga school in Hollywood, teaching in the Soviet Union, and settling in Argentina, writing books along the way. She lived to 102.*

i took her class a couple of weeks ago, and found the way she taught anusara yoga so poetic and clear and real and deliberate. i think you can feel that here…. this yoga felt similar to writing a poem, to me…careful choice of words or joints, how things are placed and stacked and breathed, finding Space in detail…. the focus on integrity, truth.
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www.virayoga.com