Class 15
Arriving and Dissolving: Pendulums into Rising and Sinking Waves
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The notes and sequence for this class are open to everyone. Playing it needs a membership.
What this class works with
The body imagined as a wave, and movement as something received rather than reached for. Parveen works the articulation outward from the hips into the spine, and from the spine into the arms and legs, looking for an uninterrupted flow he describes as tasting or sipping the wave rather than arriving anywhere. The class builds through pendulums and goddess into low lunge, where a rising and sinking wave travels up through the spine to the chin, and into a plank and flexed-knee downward dog pair where the wave runs from the legs through the spine and shoulders. It closes on the non-dual reading of the image: every experience is a wave arriving, landing and dissolving, and the waves are expressions of the awareness watching them. Parveen ends by pointing ahead to the Samudra Manthana, the churning of the cosmic ocean, with Mount Meru as the meru danda of the spine.
In this class
- •High plank into a flexed-knee downward dog, the wave running from the legs through the spine into the shoulders and neck, heels lifting and the back rounding
- •Low lunge on a warrior leg, diving and rising as a wave articulates the spine up to the chin, stepping through from side to side
- •Dynamic pendulum: arms and heels lifting, dropping, bouncing and rising, landing into a posterior tilt and ragdoll
- •Goddess with circular sweeps and a play through the spine, shifting the weight leg to leg into a side bend and rotation
- •Seated opening on a folded blanket: weight flowing into the hips like an hourglass, scanning sound, sight, smell, taste and felt sense, then anterior and posterior tilts into the recurring child, cat and cow pattern
- •rolling side to side on the back, then up to a seated close with Aum and Shanti
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