Day 3 of the intensive focussed on a series of forward bends, learning to coil the armpit chest. Abhi kept the sequence moving at a rapid pace so that the mind stayed fully involved throughout. She says a lot!! A fellow teacher told me that she had taught a part of yesterday's sequence and couldn't understand how Abhi had fitted it all in. She speaks very rapidly (but super-clearly so we can still follow) and doesn't hold too long. At one point she said we would stay for one

Today we focussed on twists, with this week's theme of Yoga Sutra 2.1 woven in. "Tapah svadhyaya Isvarapranidhanani kriyayogah" Which is translated by Guruji as 'Burning zeal in practice, self-study, study of the scriptures and surrender to God are acts of yoga. We began once again with standing poses, using them to cultivate the skill of observation in order to improve our right perception - not just in our yoga asanas but as a wider life-skill. After parivrtta parsvakonasa

It was wonderful to be able to join Abhi with our videos on, so that she was able to see and respond to what we were doing. The class focussed on many different poses to sensitise and intelligize the various constituent parts of parsvakonasana, so that by the end we got a taste of prayatna shaithilya ananta samapattibhyam - Perfection in an Asana is achieved when the effort to perform it becomes effortless and the infinite being within is reached. The class was taught 'on the