Yoga Fire
Not hot yoga in the trademark sense, but hot from our own fire-building work, and dancing.
Today I want to a workshop–manipura (the solar plexus chakra, sunny/fiery/out-into-the-world chakra)-focused and core/arm balance focused. I always am shocked at how intense these can be, cleaning-intense kriyas the like, but a pleasant kind of shocked. I feel rather detoxed in more ways than the literal. Sanieh (the workshop-doer) talked about us each thinking of some thoughts to give up to the fire to be burned away.
We did some free-form trance dance style bits too and then fell spent to the ground, feeling the ground solid and supportive after all that ecstatic movement. Ecstasy, embodied spirituality, and a good reason to eat a lot of food and salt after.
I was heartsick and still am but now I’m other things too.
Tags: chakras, ecstasy, fire, Grief, manipura, spirituality, Yoga
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August 29, 2008 at 3:33 am
namaste’
Somehow your blog crossed my cyber path… By the date I am guessing that you must have been in attendance at my Nashville workshop? I am thankful to know that the intent of transmission was taken to heart and that you felt “stirred up” in your own fire!
lovelovelove,
sanieh
September 3, 2008 at 2:25 am
Yes–do come back to Nashville again soon!