What would Wake Up Yoga be Like?

Ah, la, life is so good.

Wake up Yoga would be about using the
silly/ wonderful/ interesting/ curious/ artificial/ brilliant/ idiotic
poses
postures
shapes

of yoga,

to wake up to:

1. Now

2. The miracle of being in a human body

3. The constancies of life on Earth:

Breathing

Gravity

4. The constancies and challenges of the Human Form:

Two legs

High center of gravity

Designed as a column with rotation the simplest action

Place of seeing/ hearing/ smelling high up

Place of balance and strength far down from this place

Power in the middle, small delicate muscles at the edges

5. The miracle of the Human Possibility:

Awareness ( the now again, and more: awareness of our habit, and
awareness of other variations)

Slowing Down to Learn

Learning as its own joy

Joy when we quiet the rest of the nonsense down

Learning quicker and more pleasant when we don't "try hard"

6. Making the impossible possible
The possible easy
The easy elegant


Something like that:

And more about going inside and finding who and how
you are
and
DISCOVERING POSSIBILITIES

rather than the tired old monkey see
highly skilled monkey do
and monkey try to imitate highly skilled monkey

Like this:

Lie on your back.
Feel the sweetness of the floor.
Raise one leg to standing, i.e. foot flat on floor, knee toward sky.
Press into the foot standing and rotate that hip
Keep the other hip on the floor
Push out your belly.
Come back to flat.
Go back and forth, and LEARN

Try breathing in on the hip rotation/ belly out
Try breathing out on the hip rotation/ belly out
Notice the two changes in your spine:rotation and arching
Notice even more: which vertebrae are doing what
Notice: is your neck free
Notice : is your jaw and breathing free
Notice: are your finger soft and free
Notice: which way would your spine like to side bend along the floor
Notice: the way your foot presses into the floor
Notice: the force of your foot against gravity and that moving through your whole spine
Notice: how much fun, delight and learning it is, to Notice

Sufia Yoga, learning vs. staying the same

Sufia yoga,
that's the better name
i think

strength
unification
flexibility
intelligence
awareness, anti-aging

some people
wanting awareness
and learning
and moving beyond the old ruts
will love it

some won't

so be
it

love
is my job

their job
is to love
to learn
or to love
staying the same

good

Monday Expansion

see the sun smiling on the wall
all is good

notice the toes
a bit over activated
all is good

can you imagine
how to lie
on the ground
and take this shape

and while you take this shape
allow your back to arch
and to round a bit

and while you take this shape
allow each leg to bend a little
or a lot
and then straighten
a little or a lot

can you imagine
standing in this pose
and letting your head swing
easily from right to left
as you follow your breathing
and relax your toes
and let your eyes travel
the opposite direction
of your head

good
enjoy monday
today
and all
mondays

Monday Yoga:

Sufi Yoga:

The Sufis
went inside
to find God

And God
was too big for words

But they had a lot of poems
about the thrill of God
the joy
the silliness
the everywhere ness of God
(doesn't everywhere ness sound easier to get to
than omnipresence??)

God
for Haffiz
was always laughing
at how seriously
we took our petty
concerns

in
Sufi yoga:
the accessing of our learning
and discovery
and joy
and playfulness
can get us back to
the God in us
who creates a world
of delight
when we let ourselves
be that way

what way?
go do a little slow yoga
and every pose
switch something
just a little
or a lot
and discover
who and what
the awareness
and balance and
inner unifcation
in you
is while
you do that


another way of looking at Sufi yoga:
Strength
Unification
Flexibility
Intelligence