Intro to Backbends - Playing With Fire

• Learning to use pain as a pivot point into freedom emotionally and physically.

• Breaking Patterns of Suffering - Opening up to Freedom - How are we using our power? To create more suffering? OR are we using it in really nourishing ways? Ways that are about a life of meaning and purpose that is linked to our true nature? A LIFE OF DEEP HAPPINESS.

• Alter egos to promote freedom to say what you need to say (hehe!)

• Ego eradicator - (what's one more humbling experience?!)
• Playing with fire (physical and emotional pros and cons)
• Developing witness, discernment, and technique for getting into body (about parasympathetic and sympathetic)
• What is a life of deep happiness for you, your nature?
• Yoga Sutra 1.34
• Breaking Patterns
• Using body as bridge - Out of ignorance into "clear perception"
• Story of Banana Tree - About the nature of the Ego
• 5 Things to watch out for - this is the game, excited for their arrival so one can do the work of re-alignment - breaking patterns
• Kindness - a poem from Naomi Shihab Nye
• A guided Relaxation
• Gayatri Mantra