Earth Day!

Happy Earth Day!

What did you do for earth day?

I did...um...

uh...

I was really horriifed when I saw one of the cleaning people in my building had left the water running and I was going to turn it off but then I realized that she was filling something up...?

Um.

I...had judgemental thoughts about HumVees?...um.

Okay, no...I did do something, I did. I went to yoga (nevermind that I do that every day)...but, in honor of the 40th year of Earth Day, my teacher led us through 40 rounds of sun salutations.

40 people! Aw yeeeeeah.

This isn't actually very many, as people often do sets of 108 sun salutations at the changing of seasons and stuff, but I have never done 108 sun salutations (or probably really 108 of anything) and so for me, 40 was a lot. For those of you who don't know the sequence of a basic sun salutation (or, Surya Namaskar A), it's basically stand up, fold over, jump back, lower down, rise up, swing back, breathe breathe breathe, jump forward, stand up (and repeat). It's simple. It's juicy. And doing it all together in class, my fellow yogis and I collectively sounded like the ocean, breathing in and out, and our teacher pointed this out, asking, "isn't it beautiful that our breath is a reminder of the ocean? Of the constancy of the tides?"

Yes, it is!

So, I guess for Earth Day I spent a couple hours being the ocean.

That's pretty good, right?

Xo,
YogaLia