Namaste Fort Massey yogis,

— This is an repeat edition for those of you with @hotmail addresses who didn't receive the first version. Hopefully the filters @HM will accept this new and improved solution from MailerLite —

More on next week's class and the "after social" in the next email. Sorry for the flood of yoga news this week... and now back to the regular programming that everyone else received...

I finally squeezed a few minutes into making the emails into something more respectful of your privacy, and hopefully more informative and colourful. December — early January schedule below…

Chickens are in this edition because I have a thing for birds. More on that at the "About the Yoga Birds" page at indriyoga.com

Hope to see you this evening at 6:30 (or a little earlier for newbies) in the Lower Hall at Fort Massey United Church,

Andrew (Indri)

RESTORATIVE YOGA @ THE FORT IS:

• Cheaper than a haircut
• Shorter than a feature-length film
• Better for you than popcorn and soda and sitting on your derrière for 2 hours

The 75 minutes of Restorative Yoga on Tuesdays at The Fort features a fairly detailed run at Surya Namaskar (Sun Salutation) after the warm up, followed by a few greatest hits in the balance and opening asana genres.

Presto! — the smoothest, calmest, stretchiest birds on the block!

DEC 2019 - EARLY JAN 2020 CLASSES

Tuesday, December 10, 6:30-7:45, Regular Class feat. Vrkasana (Tree Pose)

Tuesday, December 17, 6:30-7:45, Regular Class feat. Ardha Sirsasana (Half Headstand) and Seasonal Social after class (venue TBD)

Tuesday, December 24, 6:30-7:45, No class (Christmas Eve)

Tuesday, December 31, 6:30-7:45, No class (New Year's Eve)

Tuesday, January 7, 6:30-7:45, Regular Class feat. Virabhadrasana I, II, III (Warrior I, II, III)

SURYA NAMASKAR

Not only am I super jealous of that old yogi's hair and how he makes wearing yellow pants look so normal — the guy is an elastic band on legs!

Anyway, Surya Namaskar, or the Sun Salutation sequence of asanas is an integral part of most yoga classes, and since 2015, yogis around the world have gathered all over the world to do 108 of these sequences (yes, in one go) on International Yoga Day, (June 21st).

(We'll take a vote on whether we're going to start training for June 21, 2020)