Friday and Saturday Online Classes

Zoom classes classes are working so well, I can’t keep up!

Dear friends,

I will be offering 3 more online classes in the next few days:

Friday: 10:30 am and Noon,
Saturday morning 9:30 am

This is the regular class schedule we have been enjoying for some time.  

I will also be teaching a 30 minute hand/arm therapeutic sequence tomorrow morning via Facebook live (open to the public and free) from 9-9:30 am for Movement C+F Boulder.

https://www.facebook.com/movementboulder/

If you haven’t attended online before, you must preregister for these classes by emailing me (michelle@biodynamicyoga.net) at least 30 minutes before the start of class (the earlier the better!) so that I can send you the Zoom link that allows you to join the meeting, and also let you know what equipment you will need.  I will be recording these classes too, so if you are unable to attend live please contact me.

I will be fielding all the existing responses tomorrow morning before 10 am, with priority given to the regular students – IF YOU ALREADY HAVE THE LINK I HAVE SENT PREVIOUSLY, YOU CAN USE IT AGAIN WITHOUT A SPECIAL EMAIL FROM ME – JUST SHOW UP IN THE ROOM A FEW MINUTES BEFORE CLASS STARTS.

Once you have received the link, please click on it or visit https://zoom.us/join to enter the meeting id.  If you have not used Zoom before, allow 5 to 10 minutes before the class starts to download the necessary app or extension.  All you need is a phone or laptop with a camera so I can see you while you practice and deliver the personal guidance you are accustomed to and deserve!  Yoga equipment can easily be improvised at home with rolled blankets or firm pillows for bolsters, any kind of belt or scarf for a yoga belt, thick books for yoga blocks, and any floor surface – you don’t even need a yoga mat if you have a carpeted floor!

I will be sending emails more frequently in the coming days, and I really appreciate all your referrals – so many in fact that I am having a hard time keeping up with the demand and requests!  This is a great problem to have, but I am dealing with a fair bit of overwhelm!  Especially when it comes to payment – I have not worked out these details yet.  I am now just allowing everyone to practice on the honor system until I can get a better system worked out.  At this point I am more interested in the value of practice and connecting with everyone during these strange times.  

Starting Friday – if you request a spot in a scheduled class and don’t show up, you will be responsible for payment for that class. I will be adding a Venmo and/or PayPal account soon and I am exploring virtual punch card software, but please bear with me as I get up to speed with all this.  Once that is put in place, I will be limiting class sizes to 12 people per class.

Please know that your punch card continues to be valid, and I will freeze or extend any monthly packages or other cards if you find the online format isn’t your thing.  If you attend the class online, I will record it as a punch.

With gratitude and hope, 
Michelle

We, the members of Hyper Extenders Anonymous, do solemnly swear to never do the following SI joint destroying, hamstring shredding, and lumbar compressing actions:

Fold forward with a flat back, stretch our hamstrings, blossom our buttocks, lift our knee caps, adjust our sitting bones, or move the flesh of our buttocks back and apart.  We promise to cease and desist from such activities, and also to never instruct or facilitate those activities in others.

We will refrain from performing standing poses or arm balances on other people’s spines or thighs during such forward flexions including:  baddha konasana, upavistha konasana, and pascimottanasana.

Through acknowledgement, apology, and humor we will liberate ourselves and our students from any negative emotions or memories associated with the above actions, such as shame, guilt, trauma, regret, self-hatred in all its forms, and internal conflict. We will instead see this as part of our evolution, and an asset to our further teaching and understanding. 

For here and ever after, we promise to: 

Flex our spines, fold at our groins, improve our ankle mobility, and to allow a spiraling rotation of our femur heads in the hip sockets.

Michelle Anderson, Residing President and Founder

Conceived Thursday, January 16, 2020 with Francisco Kaiut at The Concept Teacher Training in Boulder, CO