Hatha with Sandra D.

It's been a while since my last class with Sandra. I really enjoy her class. I can't quite explain it... though I hope to figure it out some day. We started seated and focused on breath. Sandra does a typical quiet centering. She doesn't talk much through it and only tells us to focus on breath. In today's centering, she spoke about focusing on the breath inhaling through the right nostril because it was a morning class we were probably more left nostril dominant at the time. She told us not to force the breath, but to just visualize the breath coming in through the right nostril and out the left.

Today's practice peak pose was Virabhadrasana III. She first focused on our shoulders. We stretched them as much as possible. Then we worked on the quadriceps. Uttanasana and virabhadrasana III were key postures. Her emphasis on the peak posture was to be "bouyant". We would bend the standing leg and rise up on inhalation. She gave the option to place hands on hips or arms straight back instead of in front.

For savasana, again, it was quiet and restful. No music.