Last Day in Montreal…

So, this is it.
I’ve run out of time here…I leave in the morning. I feel like so far I haven’t really allowed myself to feel too much. I’m afraid of how much I’m going to feel tomorrow when the city, my friends, my life for the past five years, are behind me. [...]

Home Practice

I practised at home this morning for the first time in a really long time. In the past, I’ve been unable to attain the same amount of concentration at home as I have in a shala filled with other people and their practices. But today felt good. I just did a short [...]

5 days til moving day….

I just got back from another great class with Darby. It was a level 1/2, so, modified primary (no janu C, no mari B or D, no supta kurmansana) and then some great added backbending at the end (shalabhasana A nd B, bhekasana, dhanurasana, parsva dhanurasana and ustrasana)before urdvha dhanurasana. My practice was [...]

Stress?!?!

An email I wrote to my mother this morning:
“Mum,
So, I had big plans, big plans, to go to yoga this morning now that I can, but I didn’t, and why is that? Mostly because I didn’t sleep, I layed (lied??? lay???) awake thinking of all the things that I have to pack that I [...]

Intention

I’m going to mysore with J in the morning…I’m writing it here to force myself to go. Being done work means I get to go to mysore…yippee! Okay…now to bed.
More later.

Like a tonne of bricks….

I’ll apologise in advance for my sentimentality, but it’s like it all just hit me tonight. The reality that I’ve been trying to ignore, the fact that I’m leaving my life here behind, leaving behind the friends who have become my family away from home over the past five years…in less than two weeks [...]

Less than two weeks left in Montreal….

So the bus was early this morning. Finally a Sunday morning when I was rested enough to go to 9:30 practice with E and J and the stupid bus was early. It drove by when I was two blocks from the stop and there was no way I could have made it. [...]

I can’t breathe through my nose!

ARGH! Just as I think I’m going to get back into a somewhat regular practice schedule this happens: I seem to have contracted a really pleasant sinus infection that renders it impossible, IMPOSSIBLE to breathe through my nose…thus making ujayi equally impossible.
I am looking so forward to being back in school, if only because [...]

Evening Practice

Good practice tonight with J at Ashtanga Montreal. I wasn’t feeling well on my way down there (I’ve got a touch of a cold), but I decided to go anyway and just take it easy, and as a result I had a lovely, relaxing time. I didn’t push myself, I didn’t get frustrated [...]

Spring Forward

To be entirely honest, I haven’t written anything of any real substance lately because I have no idea where to start…and as soon as I start thinking about everything I have to get done in the next four weeks I start having heart palpatations…so I prefer just to live in oblivion…ignorance is bliss.
Lately, I’ve been [...]