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What-up, wall. Put yourself booty side against the wall, engage your core, and practice taking your hip through it’s full range of motion. . No wall space, balance yoga block on your sacrum. And try not to let it fall and go boom. . Today’s email is all about movement. Have you read it? #yogathang

Waking and moving to join @yogadetour for #salutations2018 to share your variation of salutations. . This woman is rocking my yoga world. I’m learning a great-deal from her. Go ahead and give her a salute. #thisismyyoga #yogathang

Ya better work. Here’s what I’m working on: hands-free shit. It’s easy to show you what I’m “good” at, but that would be boring. Here’s some cursing, cramps, and mobility shapes. . And here are some of my favorite mobility peeps: @yogadetour @enhancedbody @ryanorrico @hunterfitness @lara.heimann . I love sharing people that inspire me. I know I don’t certainly come up with most of my shit on my own. But so many teachers act like they do. Why is that? . I recently wrote about yoga teachers being competitive assholes in one of my recent emails. Maybe you read it? . There’s so much hoarding in the yoga world. Hoarding information, hoarding teachings, hoarding people in classes, hoarding followings on social media, hoarding ownership of a pose, hoarding music, hoarding what/who inspires you. . I suspect that worth is tied to creating an image that you’re all holier than thou, as if you’re the one and only with knowledge and experience worthy of praise and followings. . Pedestal complexes. They’re fucking us up. Knock it off. #yogathang

Putting these back on the yoga class menu. I used to call these “walking giraffes” or “walking eagles” or “walking we can make this up as we move along.” It’s been awhile since I’ve practiced/taught these “weird” walking postures. I think I stopped teaching them because of the strange looks I’d get asking a room of people to get off their mats and line up at one end of the room. We’d take on variations of standing postures in a forward motion, like this video, slow and cued up to take lift off into the next step like you’re moving through water. My intention is to break up with the ordinary. Get us out of auto-pilot. Sometimes the looks in a room can make me want to crawl outside of the room. But I don’t. I stay. I will continue to stay. Because I know we are all just moving through it. Often times, this practice can feel like one big run-in with another but mostly, we are facing-off with ourselves. And we all need space to do just that. Movement moves us. And mobility is good for your body. #yogathang

Do a little dance. Make a little shape. Get down with it. Psssst! Sacramento! Teaching an inversions skills & drills workshop this month! Sunday, March 19th. 1pm-3:30pm, Solfire Yoga, $30/person. This workshop is for curious minds and playful bodies interested in playing on your hands and invigorating your heart. Let's play! #yogathang #yogavideo (at Sacramento, California)

Today's #yogatidbits brought to you and totally interrupted by a spider on the wall. That critter nearly knocked me over. 😂 #realtimeyoga #reallifeyo #yogathang