Shiva Rea Advanced Teacher Training Day 3
This morning’s meditation was blissful. What a nice transition into our 2 hour morning yoga practice. This morning’s practice brought on my inner heat, all spawned by many sets of dancing warrier series. Savasana proved to be too short…
This afternoon’s practice began with a Vinyasa Krama with special guest Srivasta Ramaswami. With his bare feet, nice slacks, button down shirt, and a white sweater vest, he began with a beautiful chant, and then lead us through dozens of poses for Tadasana. There are over 1000 variations of Tadasana. To close, he took us through the sanscrit alphabet, and then another beautiful chant. What an honor to have him come to our class.
From there, the entire class took a pilgrimage to Lake Shrine, a beautiful ten-acre natural amphitheater that was made public in 1950 by Paramahansa Yogananda. This beautiful meditative spot brought back some dear memories of my mom, purely through the vibrant smells of the lush plantlife and sounds of the birds. I found a nice spot in the sun, and just sat in peace and presence.
This was followed by another beautiful hike into the Santa Monica mountains with the entire class. After that, Shiva fed us all with an Ayuvedic dinner at her lovely house.
I have to stop and say how amazed I am at her pure energy. Tuesday, she lead our class all day, went surfing during our morning break, and then taught another public class after our all day teacher intensive training. Today, she lead our morning class, went home and cooked for over 30 people, went on the hike with us, ate with us, and then showed no fatigue at out 6:30 meditation. I think I have to get onto this Ayevedic diet…
