This is my ideal morning on a work day.
6.00 Wake up without alarm.
6.15 Check email, small glass of OJ
6.30 Make M's lunch
6.45 On the mat. Sury's
7.00 Standing Sequence
7.15 Primary or Intermediate
7.45 Backbends
7.50 Finishing
7.59 Savasana
8.00 Prepare 1/2 grapefruit (Waitrose Pinks)
8.10 Make large cappuccino and Slice of toast (polish bread) or bowl of Harvest crunch
8.15 Eat breakfast while catching up on the news, other blogs or posting to my own ,
8.45 Shower etc
9.10 Leave for work (15 minutes by bike)
If I get up any later M's sandwich has a little less love in it and I'll tend to fly through the Sury's and Standing until I catch up. Obviously I can take a little longer with my practice especially if I'm working on something particular but for some reason if I don't get on the mat by 7am at the latest I feel fidgety and find it really hard to get into my practice and enjoy it.
Re. Intermediate.
This morning was the first morning that I managed to fit Intermediate into my usual Work day schedule. Until today I'd practiced Intermediate on my day off, Sunday and one evening a week. I was taking too long between asanas, extra attempts at Kapo and Karandavasana etc. Plus I was so exhausted from the heat I was in no fit to head straight off to work. Now with the heat turned down to around 77F, I'm better able to flow through the practice and feel pretty much the same as after my primary.
Re. Savasana
I know, I know, only a minute. Could say I was kidding about the one minute Savasana but to be honest I'd rather sit in Padamasana for five to ten minutes than lay back in my sweat for an extended Savasana. One minute is the lower end though, I tend to stay in Savasana long enough for my breathing to become regular again, usually two or three minutes but it can be only one.Did I hear correctly that Sharath sends you off home with only a minute or two Savasana in a led class? "Go home, take rest" But then, like me, he sees the whole practice as a meditation rather than a preperation for Savasana.
and there's this from the great man himself
'Finally, jump through the arms, lie down and rest for five minutes. This concludes the practice.'
SKPJ Yoga Mala section 42. Uth Pluthi
Although in the comments to this post Tina says that Guruji recommended 30 minutes.
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I hope you are taking rest for more than one minute. Skipping it, or keeping it too short (under 7 or 12 minutes) fills the mind with rajas (ie makes it disturbed).
wooh you only rest one minute in savasana?!! and thinking about the breakfast??!
Could say I was kidding about the one minute Savasana but to be honest I'd rather sit in Padamasana for five to ten minutes than lay back in my sweat for an extended Savasana.
One minute is the lower end though, I tend to stay in Savasana long enough for my breathing to become regular again, usually two or three minutes but it can be only one.
Did I hear correctly that Sharath sends you off home with only a minute or two Savasana in a led class? "Go home, take rest" But then, like me, he sees the whole practice as a meditation rather than a preperation for Savasana.
It's true Amanda, I end up thinking about that beautiful grapefruit to come....bad Ashtangi.
Thank you for this post Grimmly, I love to learn about the way people organise their day around the practice. I think I would need more than one minute in savasana. And yes, I too tend to think about the breakfast towards the end of the practice.
guruji once told me 30 minutes is ideal for taking rest after practice. please give yourself more time to relax every cell and restore yourself.
Sharath says that so that people go away and the next class can start. Please don't take it out of context. Listen to Guruji.
Also, in ashtanga it is not called savasana. It is called take rest.
Try doing it for over seven minutes for a week, and see if your mind becomes calm.
Sorry CK but I think I put it very much in context
'Did I hear correctly that Sharath sends you off home with only a minute or two Savasana in a led class? "Go home, take rest"
I mention that this is in relation to a Led class and that he uses the expression 'take rest'.
It's also very relevant to the post in that when it suits ie another class coming in, 'rest' or savasana is curtailed. Surely if it was that important you would schedule in another ten minutes or so at the end, I'me sure Swenson does. In fact in Swenson's 2nd and 3rd series DVD he omits standing so he can squeeze extended savasanaa in at the end of each series.
Hi Tina, just came across your blog for the first time, so much there, excited about it, thanks for posting a comment. I take it on board that SKPJ 'recommends 30 mins (though I wonder if he would expect that of the average householder). However in Yoga Mala he says this
'Finally, jump through the arms, lie down and rest for FIVE minutes. This concludes the practice.'
SKPJ Yoga Mala section 42. Uth Pluthi
That said i'll give it a go and take your seven miutes everyday next week CK and i'll make it 30 on my day off.
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