New Year, New-ish Yoga Class

After our child-care situation blew up 🤯 I halted work on most other fronts. I didn’t think I would have anything left in the tank after spending all day everyday with three small kids and two remote learning schedules. We could barely keep up with the added family workload brought on by the pandemic before our au pair left, so the idea that I would have time or energy to make yoga videos and write blog posts seemed nuts.

For the record, I am not keeping up with the cleaning or the cooking in any model fashion, and the only reason the kids have survived all this is because they are helping me.

That is to say, I don’t want to make it sound like I’ve mastered our domestic situation to the point where I’m going to start pumping out blog posts and new yoga videos along with amazing original fiction and stunning works of art. Odds are that tomorrow night I’ll probably be sulkily washing down a block of cheese with beer and watching NBA stars talk about their bad experiences trash talking Michael Jordan.

But for now, here is a yoga video I recorded a while ago and never finished editing.

This vinyasa class is a little over an hour long and focuses on variations of Uddiyana Bandha (abdominal retraction lock) and Bahir Kumbaka (external breath retention). Uddiyana Bandha has energizing effect that tends to–when combined with the mind-stopping effect of the external breath retentions–generate a feeling of calm uplift. The video starts off a little dark before the sunrise, so please excuse the lighting. Enjoy the cameos from our cat, Willis. R.I.P. 🐱 😇

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