early this morning...

today I taught my very first class.  It was so totally awesome!  There was no music because i forgot, so I filled the room with the sound of my voice.  It was amazing how much babble came out!  Not babble... But instruction!  It fit like a glove.  We began in seiza (virasana or sitting on shins whatevs) and began by opening the shoulders, abs, obliques, and QL.  Then we did a little marauding bear to wake up the spine a bit and begin to feel the guide from within.  Slowly we made our way to our feet in elephant with our arms dragging like a trunk following the ants, and into crane where u bend R leg stretching the groin, hams, and calf, ankle, (other side) and then slowly swaying back and forth until we made our way up to standing and then started 4 part taoist breathing.  Inhaling gather chi, exhale to horse stance press chi out, inhale hands to the ground and draw up the chi from the earth to the sky letting it rain over you, exhale arms press to settle the chi.  we repeated this following the breath, cultivating the sense of chi for several rounds, and then made our way into the infamous golden seed sequence (gather chi, horse, elephant-twist, hollow out draw chi up to the sky, drinking bird, rocking horse, drinking bird, swing up to standing, settle chi)  we repeated this another several times.  Then to wind down again we followed the 4 part tao-breath to just let the breath flow naturally and not make as much of an effort to cultivate chi, but to just feel the cultivated chi.  Then we sat in a few yin style poses.  (butterfly, spinx, cat tail (twist).  Then sivasana I did a few adjustments and held their heads (there were only a couple people in the class)  and that was it!!  It was only an hour  and of course I ran over time, cuz that's how i roll.... but I feel so happy now that I've done it!!!  I will have another class on sunday morning, which is just for the students of OSM, but hopefully it will give me the gumption to find a studio to teach a regular class.  woooohooo.  thanks I hope this sequence will be of service to some of u, and if u want to experience this sequence, comment to me!!!  love love love