“without courage we can never attain to true simplicity, cowardice keeps us double minded, hesitating between the world and God. In this hesitation there is no true faith. Faith remains an opinion. This hesitation is a death of hope. We never let go of those visible supports which we well know must one day surely fail us, and this hesitation makes true prayer impossible. It never quite dares to ask for anything, or if it asks it is so uncertain of being heard, that in the very act of asking it surreptitiously seeks by human prudence to construct a make shift answer.
What is the use of praying if at the very moment of prayer we have so little confidence in God that we are busy planning our own kind of answer to our prayer?”
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The Sequence:
All Fours/Downward Facing Dog/One Legged Downward Facing Dog
Short Down Dog into a Long Downdog (listen and know!)
Surya Namakar x 3 (with small variations)
Tadasana (meditation, focusing on the left side of the body)
THE FOLLOWING SEQUENCE IS ALL DONE ONLY ON THE LEFT SIDE
Urdhva Hastasana, clasping right wrist and opening the body to the right
Crescent Pose
Lunge Twist
Parsvakonasana
Trikonasana
Vashistasana
Pavritta Parsvakonasana
Downward Facing Dog Twist
Utkatasana Twist
Tadasana (meditation, focusing on the right side of the body)
FOLLOW SAME SEQUENCE ABOVE EXCEPT THIS TIME ALL IS DONE ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE BODY
Uttanasana
Child’s Pose
Deep lunge on Forearms/Hamstring Stretch/Pigeon Pre
Ardha Bhekasana
Janu Sirsasana/Pavritta Janu Sirsasana
Paschimottanasana
Easy Twist
SAVASANA (yoga nidra like meditation, fantastic 7 min relaxation 🙂 )
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The fantastic seven minute relaxation turned into a fantastic five minute nap “LOL”. Thanks, I needed it.
Elsie,
I hope that you and your baby are loving your new life together! I have been doing your podcasts for a while, but did this one for the first time today. As the whole country is split between right and left, red and blue, the way that you focused on each side of the body was deeply powerful. What a profound, spiritual class. Thank you for weaving Thomas Merton’s wisdom into this practice.
Blessings, Marisa
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