Back again

Really, was it only one day? Was I at Pure Yoga only yesterday morning? Yup. Time is very elastic right now. No matter. I got myself up at 5:30 and — yay! — finally figured out the little in-room coffee pot thingie so I could have a cup before practice. Ah. The good life. Truth [...]

Pure Yoga

Woke up with a headache at 5:30. Probably because somewhere in this crazy travel schedule I must have missed one day’s worth of coffee fix (i.e., one cup). Put on my yoga clothes, put my hair into the standard ridiculous pigtails, and headed to the lobby to find a cab. It was still pretty dark [...]

Singapore blog

Put together a blog for the trip. I’ll dwell on the yoga on this blog, as per usual, but wanted to have a place for other details of the trip. Singapore Tour

Shuffle, Sleep, Singapore

The shuffle meme (put your iPod on shuffle and document the first 10 songs that come up): 1. Politik, Coldplay 2. Borrowed Time, A Fine Frenzy 3. Don’t Panic, Coldplay 4. Drown In My Own Tears, Ray Charles 5. High Speed, Coldplay 6. Ray of Light, Madonna 7. Brown Eyed Girl, Van Morrison 8. Gayatri [...]

Where the heart is

Woke up with a start in the hotel room. Had a (false) memory of picking up the phone for my wake-up call and then putting it down and falling back to sleep. “What time is it?!” I panicked. Look at the clock. Oh, uh, 3:30 AM. An hour before my wake-up call is due. And [...]

Busy Mind of Hotel Practice

Hotel practice is hard. This particular hotel has carpet over every inch of the floor except the tiny bathroom. Ack, practice on carpet. Very tough on the wrists. So much internal monolog with hotel practice. And I get so disembodied by travel. Decided right from the get-go just to do primary. To try to get [...]

Cold weather practice

To all practitioners who live in cold climes: I salute you. I am actually in Florida, which is not known for its chilliness, but I am at a work conference, so that means I am in air-conditioned surroundings all day and all night. I have the heat turned on in my hotel room right now, [...]

Laksmi’s Meme

Well, looks like Laksmi’s made the first Ashtanga meme. LIBERAL Practice during ladies holidays Yup. Have more than one teacher whom they may or may not listen to I listen to the teacher whose room I’m in. Give themselves poses Have always had to. My teacher doesn’t “give” poses. That said, he’s been willing to [...]

Saturday

Led class. New faces, which is nice. The British Director told us a few days ago about discovering an Ashtangini at work. Said Ashtangini voiced an interest in coming to practice. And sure enough, she appeared this morning. The British Director was introducing her around and said, “This is Karen. She’s famous. She has a [...]

Dreams

Bad dreams galore these days. Wonder what’s up with that? The strange thing, of course, is that I am sure I can “fix” it. I mean, I am concerned about the part of my consciousness that is harboring anxiety and dread and spitting out all these bad dreams. Usually I am a deep, dreamless sleep [...]