Lovely All Around

A lovely weekend was spent recently in beautiful Ventura, California by Nancy Renaud and myself. We had a wonderful time filled with healthy gluttony and redundancy (redundancy gets such a bad rap -- I mean it in the best of ways!) Our first stop on the redundancy train was to let Bon Iver (http://www.myspace.com/boniver) play non-stop in the car (a four hour car ride each way, additional driving around town -- you do the math.) We ate almost every meal at Nature's Grill (when something's so good, why go anywhere else?) And we spent most daylight hours engrossed in an 18 hour yoga wall workshop led by Bryan Legere (http://www.venturayoga.com/index.html) at his Ventura Yoga Studio. The workshop was participated in by a fabulous and varied group (who would have thought that Nancy and I coming from Fresno would be some of the closest geographically to Ventura? People had come from across the United States and New Zealand.) Bryan holds an Intermediate Level 3 Iyengar Certification. He and his business partner invented "the Great Yoga Wall" (http://www.yogawall.com/index.html) in 1998, a system which builds upon the revolutionary inventions of Mr. Iyengar's rope wall through adjustable belts and attachments to the wall. The rope wall is a wonderful tool to assist in the development and progression of poses, and it was great to revisit its use as taught by Audrey at Fig Garden Yoga (http://www.figgardenyogastudio.com/home.html), as well as explore other uses. What a great weekend!