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| 2nd class on Saturday in Davis St. studio |
Yesterday marked the first classes in the Davis St. studio for David. His large Barrington St. location is now closed and this new, smaller location is splendid in many ways. The floor is beautiful. The neigbourhood is quiet and the windows look out on greenery. It was a lot of work to move out of a large space to somewhere else, make some renovations, re-organize the props and get settled in the newness of it all. There are still some renovations to complete, but enough of the studio is done to hold classes. We were so happy to be there that in the first general level class when we chanted the Ode to Patanjali we sounded like a joyous choir, the acoustics and harmony of our voices was amazing.
I noticed how tiring it is to move, to make such changes. We are such creatures of habit it is difficult for us to learn something new. We resist change, and even good change is challenging only because it is change.
In Iyengar yoga you learn to recognize your habitual postural patterns and change them and align yourself evenly from one side of your body to the other. You confront needed change in your very own self, in your body. That is also challenging. But once you begin to embrace that change, that alignment, your body begins to sing in gratitude. Yes, it is hard, physical work and sometimes hard, emotional work too. At the end of your class or your practice, your savasana is quiet, and as David says, if you have a deep, penetrating class [or practice], you have a deep, penetrating savasana.
Namaste.
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