Episode 59: Align and Flow - 20 min
20 min. Yoga Sessions from YogaDownload.com
Jamie Kent
4.4 • 847 Ratings
🗓️ 25 August 2012
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Through this class you will work toward one of the most difficult, yet rewarding, poses yoga has to offer - Eka Pada Rajakapotasana, or One-Legged King Pigeon Pose. Jeanie uses her unparalleled experience and expertise to guide you, and prepare the body for this intense and uplifting posture by leading you through poses to open the quads, hamstrings, hips, chest, and shoulders. Even if you are far from reaching the full expression of Eka Pada Rajakopotasana, you will find yourself coming closer than you ever thought possible through this class. This is a fun, yet challenging, flow that encourages you to first find your alignment in each pose, then tap into the pulsation that runs throughout your body, outside into nature, and through the universe, so you can align and flow.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to 20 minute yoga sessions from yoga download.com. |
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| 0:20.0 | Hi, I'm Jeannie Manchester. I'm with YogaDown.com. Your support is greatly appreciated. |
| 0:23.3 | Hi, I'm Jeannie Manchester. I'm with Yoga Download.com. |
| 0:25.8 | And you can find more information about me at jeaniemanchester.com. |
| 0:31.1 | So we'll begin with closing our eyes and sitting down. |
| 0:36.5 | So we're right in the middle of our sits bones and we'll |
| 0:40.3 | tune into the sound of our breath we call this ujjayi praniyama where we close the eyes we begin to |
| 0:48.5 | listen to the sound of the breath by breathing in and out through the nose, a deep resonant sound like water running |
| 0:58.6 | through some pipes in the distant landscape, maybe even you're outside near a creek, or maybe |
| 1:05.7 | you're inside and you can hear the hum of even traffic moving by on the road. Whatever it is, there's a pulse |
| 1:12.6 | inside you that is also outside. It's in nature. It's all around us. It's in the stars. It's in the |
| 1:19.9 | pulse of the universe. And it's in you. So we begin by just listening to the rhythm of the breath and to the pulse of the heart |
| 1:30.3 | and to even the blood rushing through you like a stately river in the spring. |
| 1:37.3 | There's a rush of movement, a pulse. |
| 1:42.3 | We call that spandana, the in-breath meaning the out-breath, the heart's beat, the rhythm. |
| 1:54.0 | Even the flicker of your eyes is spondana. And yoga's main purpose is to connect us to this pulsation that is in the body, |
| 2:05.0 | but is also reflected in the bigger cosmic arena of the universe, and the stars and the moon and |
| 2:10.7 | the sun's radiance. So you can draw your hands before your heart. And we'll just take three breaths, deep breath in. |
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