Not as good after practice

No coffee before practice today. How dreamy I felt, driving over to the studio. Literally dreamy — as in, Geez, I hope I don’t go to sleep. Of course, I kind of screwed up my “what does practice feel like without coffee” experiment by going out last night (The Cop and I met Crim Girl [...]

Gah!

Backbends, dropbacks. Sloooooooow assisted dropbacks, and urdhva dhanurasana for long holds. I felt like my guts were gonna shoot out from under my skin. What’s the dealio? Does anyone have any insights? I was breathless and had that intense stomach weirdness (not nausea, not an ache, but just a kind of bitter spasmy feeling) that [...]

Don’t think. Do.

My cousin asked me about enlightenment. Well, not in so many words. She would think it was dopey to use a term like “enlightenment.” She’s looking for something, though. She’s looked in lots of places, too. Some spiritual; some not so much. So she was curious about yoga. How to explain that it isn’t about [...]

We’re running a conference at work. We do a couple each year; one really big one, and a smaller one. This is the smaller one, and rather convenient, as it is located at a resort hotel in Phoenix. One of the designers on my team put together a learning event that runs intermittently throughout the [...]

If it’s not one thing…

Three way conference call to Pakistan and Hong Kong last night got moved from 7 PM my time to 9 PM. Dangerously close to the time I fall into unconsciousness, whether ready or not. And then the call was difficult to connect, pushing the actual start time to 9:20. Finished up well after 10. Ow! [...]

Auntie Pappandrea

Just read Tim’s post on food and practice, and realized I’d been thinking about my own history with food and exercise over the past weekend. Everyone is going home sick today from work, and the place is pretty much empty. So a little lunchtime blogging seems to be in order. In keeping with the spirit [...]

Off we go

At 6 AM, The Cop said to me, “Are you okay?” Why? Because I was still in bed. The first words out of my mouth were “Oh, sh#t!” Checked the alarm clock. It was set to the right time, it was switched on. WTF? Oh well. Too late for Mysore. So a home practice. And [...]

Moon

Interesting day. People seem tired and cranky and out of sorts. The moon, I imagine. I’ve been a little off kilter, emotionally, too, but not too bad. Last night, My Gift came down from school and cooked a special Valentines meal for The Frenchman. I supervised, as she doesn’t do much cooking. All turned out [...]

Prescient

This morning, The Cat came over and stood on my thighs during baddha konasana. All I could think was, “Hmmm, ibuprofen will probably be a good idea later.” What a great crack from my sacrum, though. Mmmm. I always love when I get the cracks on trikonasana. If I don’t, the rest of practice feels [...]

Oh. Right. Pleasure.

Hard time getting up this morning. I looked on the calendar for the Moon Day. Surely that’s why I feel so tired and uninspired? Yup, there’s one coming up on Saturday. I am already planning a criminal led class, so it’s a moot point. My concession to tiredness was a soft practice. Work has been [...]