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Yoga with Dr. Melissa West 337 : Poetry in Motion, Lost

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Channel: Yoga with Melissa · 2016 · Howto & Style

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In today´s yoga class we focus on finding balance in tree pose and opening up our hips, groin and inner thighs with several yoga postures to prepare for standing balancing tree pose. This yoga class features several different variations on tree pose from side lying, to side plank, to several different standing balancing versions of tree pose as well. Tree pose legs are carried into the back bending posture and inversion as well. We finish the class with a final hip and shoulder joint opener with cow´s face pose. 

In the third class of our poetry in motion series we move to the poem Lost by David Wagoner. Throughout the poem the metaphor of the forest is a powerful analogy of coming back to our Selves. This poem teaches us to listen deeply, to step out of our everyday life, from the rushing, noise, confusion and distractions of our urban landscape. There is a call to stillness. When we practice yoga, our body is an anchor to our present moment experiences. It allows us to settle and listen to ourselves. When we come to a place of peaceful abiding we enter a space where we are not pushed and pulled by life's circumstances. We return again and again to the present moment. When we are present to the sensations of our body there is the possibility of self-knowing, caring present and intuitive insight.

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