Wanderlust Stratton 2019

Learning to read a body via asana work is one of the goals of teaching yoga. Poses are snap shots that show things in the moment. Reading a body, assessing a pose, interpreting where one is heading, is the art of seeing. Seeing patterns such as the repetition of arches in the body on every floor, or how a collar bone is turned will be reflected in the wrist. Poses show propensities of behavior and how personal habits are articulated in the practice. When we are looking at a yoga pose, we reference the ideal form of it so that we have a template, a map, a criteria to look for. Form that is not functional, that is dysfunctional, is not sustainable. Our work is to transform the personal to a formal form that functions formidably.
Class time devoted to lecture: More than 45 minutes