Sun Salutation

Thank you.

You know, it's funny you mentioned Tim Miller because I was actually thinking, like, could we get him out of retirement? I mean, like, how, like, could we, like, how many of us, like, what would it take? Like, we need, like, a protest in front of the house and we all do Surya Namaskar.

Yeah.

You know, I'm like, what if we go, we just start taking practice, and then we're like, you know, we need to chant the Hanuman Chalisa.

Yeah, yeah, exactly.

We bring balance to each other, don't we? And if you wanna go full crazy, you can do the 108 sun salutations, uh, at the changing of the seasons, not just on summer solstice, my love.

Yay.

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Um, and performing 108 then sun salutations is often seen as a way to honor that sun and align ones self with the cosmic and spiritual principles.

Where did you copy and paste that bit from, my love?

That is all from my brain.

So then the other aspect is that it's got an element of self-discipline.

You do the yoga, you do the Surya Namaskar, you do this, you do that, which is given to it by its age-old rituals.

So if you follow those rituals, then you have to follow in a certain way.

So on the one hand, it's very disciplined.

Yeah, yeah.

"You said it was a Vinyasa flow, but there were no Sun Salutations."

Yeah.

You know?

And do what you like.

I promote Surya Namaskar does not mean everybody should do Surya Namaskar.

And everybody should not do Surya Namaskar, I would say.

Everybody should do what they like.

Somebody would like Zumba.

Totally.

And you will never know how that will contribute into your drum circle facilitation.

Right? You will never know how my Surya Namaskar energy will actually show up during my drum circle facilitation.

One teacher calls me in the morning and says that I'm going to be late.

Why don't you just take the Prarthana and start with some Surya Namaskars? And I was first very nervous to the extent that I was almost going to say, Maybe I should say that I cannot come today to class, but I could not escape that also.

And I happened to go to the class.

I was like, okay, it's a prarthana.

So thankfully, it went slow.

And I was like, okay, what's the next stanza? What's the next stanza? Okay.

but then does this come next or the next one come you're calculating or everything but everything worked out well i would say and i found out that yes if you just attend to it you can actually just be easy with it but that was of course over time And the teacher finally came after we completed like 12 to 15 Surya Namaskars, because after Surya Namaskars, I had no idea what I should do in that first class.

And that is how I think was the first initiation.

We come to an asana class, you do your flows.

You do Surya Namaskar, but it's called a sun salutation.

And then this backbone of sound, frequency, chanting, repetition of a single thought kind of just gets disembodied from the practice.

But really, it's the origin of the practice.