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WE RENT FUN!! 2 & 4 SEAT POLARIS RZR UTV’S She makes it sound and look easy, but the class is extremely challenging. Within the hour she has everyone perspiring as they do handstands with their forearms planted on the ground, arch into backbends, and drop into the “chaturanga” equivalent of dozens of slow, excruciating push-ups. At least one of these people in the class—me—is someone who used to wince when they tried to touch their toes. (Your toes seem farther and farther away as you get older.) But near the end of the session, I feel like someone has cut some imaginary elastic band that was wrapped around my hips and quads. It is the ultimate feeling of relief, that beautiful kind of soreness you get when you’ve done something good for your body. The session closes with some chanting, and again it feels sacred, all the voices resonating with the same tones, reverberating off the studio walls. The final pose is shavasana, everyone’s favorite, lying supine with eyes shut in complete stillness. It’s the quietest and calmest few minutes most of us will have all week. We normally don’t steal time away from our busy lives to relax, but here, we indulge. Everyone is smiling as they leave, transformed and ready to face the rest of the day. Then it’s back to the mountains. Back to the grind, the burn, the pounding of everyday, active life in the outdoors. Yet you do take something with you from the practice, some of that peacefulness and sacred connection to everything around you. Taylor says it’s the elemental nature of yoga, the philosophy of “Sankhya,” that connects us to the earth, water, fire, and air of our environment. Humans are a microcosm: The earth is represented by the skeleton and structures in the body, the water by the fluids in the body, the air by the circulation and movement, and fire is the vitality and energy of the life force. “We are a reflection of all that is, and practicing in relation to nature allows us to feel its life-supporting, life-giving qualities and know that we are not separate,” says Taylor. “We acknowledge our fundamental connection to the earth through numerous postures such as mountain pose and tree pose, and all of these elements are represented by different poses in yoga.”
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