Surprise at yoga today- Ruth, a teacher from Jivamukti’s studio in NYC showed up. I knew she has been coming here during the summer- so I was delighted to see her- during winter. She was a special friend of Patthabi Jois and Saraswathi said
that she is one of her oldest students.
I learned something new about the pose Baddha konasana- that the elbows stay tucked into the ribs . And the pose is done twice- the second time with the soles of the feet facing up and the back rounds down- head to feet- I find that impossible, especially after so many years of lengthening the spine – not curving the spine.
Very exciting regression from Beatrice today in Past Life Regression school . Her story began at night time; she found herself outside, and slowly, an image of a lake appeared, with a palace beyond it. Turns out, she was a queen! And she loved to make paintings. Off to a good start. Going to her younger years it seems she grew up in a very poor family – the prettiest girl in the village- so everybody hated her. Around age 20 her parents took her to the palace one day so that the king could meet her- She was unaware of all this until she saw the king and recognized how he responded to her.
Her parents were glad to give her away for the prestige involved. And she went from poverty to opulence. But she had no feelings for the king- who was 50- and she saw him as a dirty old man. She knew that 2 of the servants were fooling around with him- which she didn’t mind, as she was having her own secret affair with a court guard. She had plenty of time to pursue her love of painting, hated her husband, the king. And finally, all hell broke loose. Her husband was away and she invited her lover into the palace. While they were having an amorous time, a knight dashed into the room, killing the guard, in the queens bed! Then she, feeling guilty and in despair, hung herself! Wow- couldn’t make this stuff up!
I am enjoying the class. We have had 6 regressions and tomorrow we’re going to start practicing the relaxation trance on each other! Should be fun. The only challenge so far is that I feel very sleepy during the class – cause we’ve been hearing the relaxing words over and over. I’m feeling sleepy.
Namaste, Annie