On my way across the country I stopped to join some YogaSlackers at Wanderlust in Colorado to help teach slackline and balance classes. After 3 days on the road I was pretty tired and picking Jordan up at the airport and then driving up got us there around 1:30 am. That night we just went to sleep.
The next day we had a 2 hour slackline class at 10:30, then we had to start planning and practicing our part in the Wanderlust Spectacular set for that evening. This spectacular included some talented people dancing, hooping, acro yoga, budokan, music, and us. We did a little bit of acro and hoisted Raquel up on a human anchored slackline, then we lifted Sam in Peacock pose. I didn't get any pics of this because I was in it, but I poached some from Facebook. I should have brought my camera though, as there were opportunities for cool pics of the other performers. Hopefully a video will surface some day.
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| we started with a little acro - rolled back into reverse shoulder stand (that's me 2cd from rt) |
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| Jordan flips across on our feet and hands - my feet are next |
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| Sam, myself, Mark, and Jordan hold one end while... |
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| Raquel walks the line |
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| Sam gets hoisted in peacock pose |
Most of the rest of the time was spent teaching, playing, conditioning (much better with a group), talking, and sleeping - although probably not enough of the latter. Things are never dull with the YogaSlackers, plus I got to meet a few more of this incredible group. I also managed to take 2 classes, and eat and drink a fair number of the delicious free samples they were handing out. MMMM coconut ice cream. The weather was pretty schizophrenic with hot sun followed by chilly shade and wind and back to hot sun. We got a little bit of rain too.
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| Jordan shows off her henna guns on a sunny day |
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| Jordan tries to stay warm on a rainy day |
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| attempting a shoulderstand on the line with Mia - it felt possible, but more work is needed |
The last day a group of us rode up the ski lift and took a bunch of fun pics. Here are a few of them.
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| Josh doesn't usually get off the ground - he IS the ground |
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| Raquel risks hypoxia from the added elevation on top of Josh |
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| Headstand - made possibly by the 7 fps of the Pentax K-5 |
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| Garret flips Colin |
I posted some more wanderlust stuff here:
