Blocks, nausea, rain

I’m noticing that three words will cover most of the info I’m likely to include in any given entry. Mysore practice this morning. On Mysore days, I get up at 4:30. This morning, though, I was awakened at 3:30 by the sounds of an astonishing deluge. My mind was sleepy, and my first thought was [...]

Chocolate, camera, back to work

My Gift told me an amusing story when she visited this weekend. The Frenchman was visiting her at school one weekend and they went to Starbucks. My Gift spotted some Godiva chocolates at checkout and bought them to share with The Frenchman. He was perplexed when she bit off half of a chocolate and passed [...]

For Suzie, and all of us

There always seems to be so much drama about aging. I think of Vanda Scaravelli. Check out this interview, and take a nice long look at her pictures. You’ll note she says she started practicing at “around 40, 45.” Hard to remember, I’m sure, when she gave this interview (still practicing!) in her 80s. Yup, [...]

Scaredy cat

Crazy train of thought: 1) Krink in the left sacrum. Not horrible, but there for the past week. A minor annoyance. 2) I tend to compensate when one side of me has an issue (this is true over many years of sports injuries: one side has a small issue, and a while later, I turn [...]

Saturday

Saw this meme where you take the closest book, open it to page 123, go to the 5th sentence and then post the next three. I guess I think it’s cool because I always have tons of books around me, and this little exercise yields results with little effort. Slacker meme. She seemed to have [...]

When I went into the room for Mysore practice this morning, Volleyball Guy handed me a bunch of photos. Including one of the endlessly-held urdhva dhanurasana. It looks pretty good! Woohoo! My extra backbending days are actually making a difference. My lumbar and thoracic are good, legs good — all that’s left is getting my [...]

Further adventures on the neurological highway

Ah, more vaguely migrainous feelings! Not the pain, thank goodness, but the strangeness. Like the world is slightly “off.” The thing that’s kind of cool about this is that I trained myself over decades to immediately relax and chill when migraines threaten. So it’s a little biofeedback loop that has me going into meetings today [...]

Critical

I slept badly last night, because I kept waking and worrying that I was somehow going to miss the global webconference this morning. Just before the alarm went off, I was dreaming that my office was at the back of Fenway Park, and that the only way I could get in would be to buy [...]

Self-inflicted

Had to work around a little injury this morning. A self-inflicted one. Yesterday, at work, I threw open a door and bashed myself in the knee. Graceful! I was just happy I didn’t manage to hit myself in the head and give myself a head injury. I felt dumb when I did it, and dumb [...]

Oh, yeah!

I totally forgot (amid all my wondering about how my Ashtanga practice would affect a full day of zazen) to think about how a full day of zazen might affect my asana practice. Answer this morning at Mysore practice: krink in the sacrum. You know the little sacrum place that pops in trikonasana? Well, it [...]