Screamin' tension! Not me, but one of my students. Had a terribly upsetting phone call right before class and she was steaming. Vented all over the room too.

I started them out with a short meditation. Paying particular attention with the breath. I feel that all of my students (and I include myself in that) need reminders to breathe. Normally I don't talk too much about prana, fluxations of the mind, etc but rather on asana. Today I talked about prana, the flow of asana, the stuckness of prana. About intent and western goals. Wry looks as we discussed that topic.

Oh yeah, there were some goal driven type-A personalities in class. :-)

Worked a lot with relaxing the shoulders, learning how to feel the weight in our hands instead of holding the shoulders up around the ears and finding our hands don't weight anything at all that way. Used the ropes for flying and forward bends to open up the shoulders (the flying part). Worked alot with feeling the body, being aware of the tension and using the breath to raise prana and release tension. A slower class than usual, but full of energy.

I got a lot out of the energy in the room, the breath of the room as the breath from the students slowed and became more even. Shavasana was watching all of them sink right into the floor.