Arts and crafts and yoga and sutras...the Bodhisattvas are busy at work.

Kumi says to Yukari -- Let's keep moving!

Smile team is rehearsing.

Nadeshko team practices their teaching and hands-on work.

Kumi is an accupunturist and she is helping out Chama's toe.

Now it is time for yoga. Kyoko begins Socrates team's class wearing her OM yoga t-shirt since she is a little bit nervous.

Here is Yo in her OM yoga t-shirt, teaching us how to use blocks in Danurasana.

This is it -- a very interesting and effective way to use blocks and belts for partner work in Danurasana.

At the end of a long but very good day of OM yoga TT, I asked Chama and Kazumi if they would join me for dinner the next night to celebrate the graduation. They saluted and said, Yes, Teacher!

This is Kanae, one of my trusty translators. She had to translate the students' classes to me as they were teaching and, of course, it is much more difficult to go from Japanese to English. Thank you, Kanae, Anu and Yuko for smoothing commnications.

Tamao, doing a sirsasana variation due to her surfing neck injury. She looks like an angel here.Everybody else working on going from Sirsasana A to B to C to B to A.

SMILE team: Rei, Tamao, Chigusa, Maya and Fumiko. They are so happy that they went first and now they are finished

Nadeshko team practicing teaching Sirsasana prep.

Kazumi doing her own version of Sirsasana prep -- she is such a character!

Chama practicing teaching Surya Namaskar with his team, Honeymoon.

Ardha Dhanurasana has a baby with Ardha Bhekasana.

Hideyo is helping Maya to ground her sitting bones by drawing her outer hip creases down and back. This is a good adjustment for people like Maya who are very flexible in forward bending.

Rei adjusting Fumiko in Janu Sirsasana. And they are both wearing their very kowie -- cute -- OM yoga t-shirts!

Chizuka gives a nice adjustment to the birthday girl, Yuki.

Chisato is studying her notes. All the students write down EVERYTHING after they take class from me. Sequencing, instructions, etc.

Chigusa and Yuki help Yo do a drop back.

Chisato and Miyo help Miho do a drop back.

Chika represents her study group in teaching while Yuki and others do hands-on adjustments.

Here I am with two of my translators, Yuko and Anu, in Starbucks! It is almost exactly like the Starbucks in the US except the wraps are root vegetables w/ chicken and only half as big.

How does that feel, Yukiko? Ahhh....it feels great.

To paraphrase Chogyam Trungpa Rimpoche, Even Supta Virasana is workable -- with lots of blocks!

Kazumi saved the tt study group pictures from last September and put them back up on the wall again along with the daily schedule.

Working on the full version of parvritta parsvakonasana.

Urdhva Mukha Svanasana!

Joe demonstrates Parsva Bakasana and then we all did. Some people remembered how I taught them to use a block and that was helpful.

Joe demonstrates a shoulder opening exercise to prepare for pinca mayurasana.

How convenient that this dance studio we are using has a ballet barre for us to rest our arms on and help us open our shoulders.

No problem if the ballet barre is too high -- we can stand on our trusty blocks!

After the class I had a meeting in this room with Kazumi and Yuko, who will be my translator tomorrow.

Then I went for a walk in Roppongi and saw this sign which I like a lot.

Here is Chama, owner of Tokyo-yoga.

This is Joe with Anu, his translator for the day.

This is Kazumi -- manager of Tokyo-Yoga. She works so hard to make everything happen just right.

Chama in Cat Pose. Do you know how to say this pose in Sanskrit?

Virabbhadrasana 2.

Joe demonstrates Sirsasana.

The Japanese teacher training students are very good at paying attention.

I asked Joe to teach this Sirsasana variation for Tamao who has a neck injury from surfing.

Joe demonstrates how to use a blanket in Salamba Sarvangasana.

Here is the "Shyndi mark" -- many of the students asked me to sign their mats and make my drawing there, too.

Outside the studio is a bench next to this sign which says, "You may smoke here."

This shrine was on the corner. Kazumi said this deity will help your cough go away.

Here were the wonderful yogis and yoginis at the class!

This was one of the yoginis in attendance and I asked her if I could take her picture because I thought her curled bangs were so cute.

This is the glamorous Sarah Trelease, OM yoga ambassador to Lululemon. Wearing sunglasses as all ambassadresses should!

After a stretch class with Edward from 7-7:30 and another totally delicious breakfast, Dave gave a dharma talk from 9-10:30.

Enraptured yogis/dharma students.

MIndfully meditating Edward.

Then right into yoga from 10:30-12ish. Palms were up today, in the position of both giving and receiving.

I taught a warm-up vinyasa that included side bending on both sides, and twists -- both open and closed. Do you know the difference and what they prepare you for?

There's always something to work on in Downward Dog, isn't there?

Baby cobra and lion had a baby.

The reminder of a light touch.

They set up their mats at all angles! Messing with my head - whoa...

With the mats nicely organized, we had our class.

Distributing weight and effort, like a tea bag in hot water.