It was a wee bit chilly around 7:30 AM this morning when I arrived in Topanga for our teacher Jorgen C.'s Yoga Day LA AM class.
The sun did finally come out at around the same time we started with the Surya Namaskar series , drying the dew on the grass at the Topanga Community Center.
As Kayoko M. put it , " It was so nice to practice with the sun ! "
The 1st pic shows us chanting the Ashtanga Yoga mantram :
vande gurūṇāṃ caraṇāravinde
sandarśita-svātma-sukhāva-bodhe
niḥśreyase jāngalikāyamāne
saṃsāra-hālāhala-mohaśāntyai
ābāhu puruṣākāraṃ
śaṇkha-cakrāsi dhāriṇam
sahasra-śirasaṃ śvetaṃ
praṇamāmi patañjalim Om Shanti Shanti Shanti -
