Making friends with yourself - meditation talk, instruction, practice and mindful yoga.

Two afternoons with Cyndi via Zoom -

Explore how the mutual support of hatha yoga and Buddhist meditation help us bring our bodies and minds into balance.

Cyndi will introduce shamatha, traditional Buddhist mindfulness meditation, as a path toward making friends with ourselves, creating a gap between stimuli and response, and leading to more options for a rich, joyful and beneficial life.

Each class will include a dharma talk introducing themes we will then explore through sustainable asana, playful sequencing and lots of opportunities to wake up in your body!

Saturday: Dots of Awareness

Mindfulness meditation instruction and practice.

Balance and equanimity are powerful practices that literally shift the ground of one’s existence, away from habitual drama story-lines, and toward a genuine sense of ease.

We will explore how meditation helps us to be “not too tight and not too loose,” and how asana class offers the perfect vehicle for finding this kind of fluid balance through standing pose sequences.

Sunday: Obstacle as Path

Mindfulness meditation and Maitri / Lovingkindness practice.

We yogis know that our hips are often the site of deep imbalance due to lack of flexibility, physical and emotional injury, too much sitting, too much kettle bell work. Instead of thinking of our hips as a a problem, we need to focus less on hip opening — just another form of craving — and find a healthy range of motion through soft closings, clarity of rotation, organized pelvis and legs, bright feet, and precise attention to exertion and ease.