Hi. I hope you're all doing well and that you are sheltered in a good place that is
healthy for you, and around people, if you are around anybody, that you're treating
each other lovingly and well. With that said, yoga must go on!
And yes, this is the time we really do need it, and you actually have the time
to really do it now. No excuses. You've got lots of time on your hands.
And so, I am going to basically be teaching you online. I thought about doing
a live online Zoom-type classes, but I didn't know if everyone had the equipment
for that, so what I'm gonna do is make 12 one-hour videos, and that's the rest of
your course material. And do two a week... we have about 6... we have 6-7 weeks left
in this semester. Two a week. And then keep a log, so that way I'll know if
you're really doing it or not. So you would, in the log, put the date, put the
number of the video because I'm gonna have them numbered, and then a couple of
sentences about what we did in that video. And then to just double-check to make sure
that you did do it, I'm gonna say a magical code word in each video and I want
you to write that code word so I know you actually at least listened to it, okay?
So today, the code word is namaste. This intro is... the code word is namaste.
If I'm living in my heart and you're living in your heart, then we're all
living in the same place. All right, now the other thing... some of you did not take
the midterms, so I'm changing that up. If you did take the midterm, ignore this.
But if you didn't, I'm changing it to three poses that you will describe with
like a short paragraph of each. One, a standing pose with two legs straight.
One, a standing pose with one leg bent, one leg straight. And one, any other kind
of pose. It could be forward bends, inversions... those are handstands and
shoulder stands and plows, twists, sitting poses. So, three poses.
And I'm gonna be sending all of this to you, all these instructions... you don't
have to write them down right now, but all of it through your email. So please,
please, please do check your ACC email and if you don't ever check it, that account,
then please email me either at ACC or at the other address. I'll put it all in the
email. Well, you wont get it. I have another email that you can send it at.
It's on your syllabus. Okay. And if you can just email me another email, that might
work better for you so I make sure that you get the information. I plan on putting
all the videos on some sort of Dropbox or maybe Google Docs. We'll see.
And then giving you that URL so that you could just access it right then, and
I'll just keep adding to it as I do these videos in the next month or so.
Okay? So if you have any questions, do email me. I do encourage you to activate
your ACC email. That's the easiest. I don't use a lot with Blackboard.
I just use it to send the emails. So with that said, I wanna encourage
you to use this time in a peaceful way to do a lot of pranayama, a lot of breathing,
and keep yourselves healthy and happy and do those things that maybe you've
been putting off. Right. Maybe you wanna learn guitar or you wanted to read a
specific book that you knew would take a lot of time. Do that now.
This is the time for us all to regroup and realize that we're all in the same place.
Namaste.