Whoops

In a fit of slumber I must have turned my alarm off, because I just woke up..and it’s 9:36. So much for mysore this morning. Damn. And they don’t even have any led classes today, only morning mysore. Double damn.
The oversleeping likely has something to do with the fact [...]

Weird

So, the last few days have been kind of weird.
I agreed to work at my dad’s business a couple days a week so that I could make some money and he could have an employee who he trusts implicitly. He insisted there was a lot for me to do. I spent [...]

Cleanse+vinyasas= not so much

I just finished a super restorative practice. I threw in a few vinyasas just to see how much I was capable of on the cleanse….and I decided it was much better to just stick with the restorative stuff. The type A ashtangi inside me had a hard time with that, but I resisted [...]

The headache is here

The cleanse headache is upon me. Usually it doesn’t hit until day three. Maybe if it’s hitting on day two it means that my cleasing process is moving along at a faster clip?!? Wishful thinking. It actually hasn’t been as “cleansing” yet as last time…if you know what I mean. [...]

Mind, Body and Unemployment

Cleanse Day 2: So far, so good. I really, really like this cleanse. Because it’s very do-able, and frankly, it works.
Unemployment Day 2: I woke up this morning to two replies to applications I sent out yesterday. One for a Bilingual Communications Specialist, and one for a Marketing Coordinator. So that’s [...]

Yoga body

My body image has plummeted in the past month or so. Of course, I’m pretty sure I’ve also gained at least 5 pounds or so in the last month. Given that it was, what I’ve decribed (very honestly) as “the worst month of my life,” and that I had absolutely no time to do [...]

The good and the bad

Good things:
-I’m done school
-I have no obligations at the moment
-I practised yesterday in Burlington.
-the Burlington shala has installed an Iyengar wall, and I’m SO excited about it. I’ve been wondering about where I could find one of these ever since reading about it in Yoga Chickie’s blog
-now that I’m done school and done with [...]

Stressless

“School’s out for summer/School’s out forever…”
I just wrote the last word of my last paper for this, my last semester of my graduate degree.
I am done school. Done. Finished. D-O-N-E.
What an incredible feeling of relief and happiness…and total and utter exhaustion.
I guess this means I’m offically unemployed.
Tonight: a quiet celebration [...]

Happy Birthday!

Happy second birthday to my blog!
I believe if you check the archives you’ll discover that on this day in 2004 I was basking in the glory of Mysore and the practice. That was so magical. I want that magic back really badly. Really badly. I told my stepmum that I’m going [...]

Knots

The fact that my back refuses to crack is consuming me. I crack my back regularly. Yes, I’m one of those people. I knew it was a little out of control when I was in Mysore and everyone practising with Sharath stopped and looked at me when I cracked my back. [...]

One week and five days to freedom

Every muscle in my body aches. And not from practice. From stress.
Entering week 3 of not having a single day off from school work. I’ve never worked harder on a single project in my whole life than I have on this documentary.
The realisation has hit me recently that friends, girlfriends in particular, come [...]