Today as I was closing, and for the first time ever, Greg came to help me with padmasana (lotus).
It sounds simple but the lotus we do on the ashtanga closing includes a specific mudra, three bandhas, and the breath... ah the breath.
Greg signaled me to take long breaths, and when he demonstrated I realized he really meant long, as in counting slowly to 8 for the inhale and slowly to exhale for 8 counts. As I followed him I started to sweat. Then I had a flash of memory from some advanced students at Sivananda Ashram in Quebeq who told me they also sweated when they were learning pranayama, and it dawned on me, I was doing pranayama.
Not coincidentally (nothing really is anymore, they are all messages), I saw the website of Ashtanga teacher Jessica Blanchard, who now took over the space that Melanie Fawer used to have in New Orleans. She used to be in the corporate world and ended up teaching in Thailand with Paul and Jutima. It always fascinates me to read her bio.
Point is, this time she added a link to the institute in India where her (and Paul's) pranayama teacher, Sri O.P. Tiwari, holds ashram in India, and as I clicked the link I learned that he has a certification program in pranayama. God I wish I could only do these things!. Here is the link in case you are curious as I was http://www.kdham.com/
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