Setting Intentions
March 2023 Slice of Life challenge
While teaching a yoga class I choose to play soothing music with no words. If I use music that is familiar I get too distracted and have a hard time keeping my brain focused on the sequence that I am trying to teach. My biggest fear as a yoga teacher is mixing up my rights and lefts when leading a class so I must stay connected to the task. As a teacher I have control over the music that I play but as a student I must succumb to what the teacher chooses. Just about every Saturday morning when I practice my yoga instructor uses a playlist that I am very familiar with. My mind knows all the words, melodies and chord progressions. Sometimes I even want to harmonize. I can feel my singing reflexes spring into action. I just NEED to sing. I admit to laying in savasana and a hum or a note or two may have made its way out of my mouth. Once everyone vacated the yoga studio and I was the only one left in the room I busted out in song. I was only testing out the acoustics in the room, right?. Shh. Please don’t tell.
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3/9/2020 04:54:17 pm
Music and yoga are such a match. Meditation and music are healing. I have been doing yoga in my back yard the past week, and have gotten very attuned to the sounds. Birds, squirrel claws scritching up redwood bark, traffic, dogs in the distance, neighbors, breezes, workers...thank you for sharing how much you love to sing! Singing yoga sounds like the next good thing...
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ADRIENNE GILLESPIE
3/9/2020 07:51:38 pm
I can see where wordless music would work beautifully with yoga. And I can see how the same familiar tunes can be part of the process, But sometimes you just have to sing at the top of your lungs. I love picturing you on your mat, belting out a tune.
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