WoYoPracMo is underway

WoYoPracMo started with a whimper…not unlike last year (ha, look at that, I used the same first sentence last year). Last night’s celebrations were fairly low key but decadent nonetheless.
Here’s a word to the wise though, if you can’t fit a practice in earlier in the day because you’re too busy [...]

Last eve

Just finished my last practice of 2007 and before WoYoPracMo 2008 commences tomorrow.  It was tough.  Planned on doing a full practice, but quit after standing as my stomach was grumbling madly and I needed to eat — lest I pass out (this explains why morning practice is done in the early morning, and not [...]

Standoff

Yeah, I don’t know what happened.  Maybe I just had to distance myself from that failure called NaBloPoMo.  Or maybe it was the constant going-ness of the holidays.  Not sure.  Anyhow, here I am.  Hoping everyone’s Christmas was merry, holidays happy etc. I’m currently sitting  on my living room floor, drinking a cup of green tea (I’m [...]

Ow

I don’t know what I did, but I know that it’s not good.  I had no sense that anything was wrong until I woke up a couple times in the middle of the night and, in shifting around in bed, noticed what I thought was a minor tweak in my back.  Then, when I tried [...]

Don’t wanna

Okay, so NaBloPoMo and I have all but broken up. Actually, I think we’re in that phase right before the breakup, you know the one where you’re “on a break.” Yeah, well, that’s the status of my relatonship with NaBloPoMo.
I had a few posts brewing in my head last week, but [...]

Whoops

The NaBloPoMo gods are probably going to stike me down. I’ve missed two days in a row. And all because I’m so un-fun that I’ve been exhausted and going to bed (on the weekend, no less) around 10 p.m.
I’m also probably pissing off the ashtanga gods. What’s my favourite day [...]

Let go

The mat provided a refuge yet again. I got home late tonight, burnt out, stressed, head filled with way too much information and too many questions. I found the time to do a most basic of basic practices: sun sals, last three poses of finishing and savasana. It felt so refreshing [...]

Outlook not good

Today was a crappy day. I don’t really want to talk about it.
The one good part of the day today was my practice. Nothing extraordinary really, but an hour away from the craziness and the “what ifs.” An hour of breathing and stretching and not thinking. That made [...]

Hope?

You know how yesterday I carried on about the lack of Ashtanga here? Well, I wasn’t exarggerating.
The other day I was driving down the street and saw a sign for a new yoga studio close to my house. Today I got around to looking up their web site. They don’t teach [...]

Over it

Is anyone else just so totally over Heroes? I am. The Guy is watching it, but I’m avoiding it. I think they’ve taken on too many storylines. Anyhow, over it.
So, in the spare time that I acquired by not watching Heroes, I decided to unroll my mat and play [...]

Wired

Due to last night’s time change, it’s currently 10:24 p.m.  I should be getting ready for bed, but I’m too wired to sleep right now.  I was away for work a few weeks ago, and while I was gone The Guy got restless and started planning various surprises for me.  One of them happened tonight: [...]

Oil barrel and other such randomness

Yesterday was the first time in weeks that I remember feeling excited to practice.  I daydreamed of backbends all day, and finally after work and a trip to the market it was time to step on the mat.  I opened the door to my apartment and started to walk up the stairs and then was [...]

De-hiatusing

Lessons learned during my blog hiatus:
 (1) For me, blogging isn’t just navel-gazing (I mean, that’s part of it, but not all of it).  It’s also about accountability.
Evidently, if I don’t report to anyone I find it way too easy to just skip practice altogether.  And then I stop reading ashtanga blogs, which makes it very [...]

Teacher = gift

Yesterday was the first day in months that I’ve made it to a Mysore class with Katie.  And I can feel it today, particularly in my hips and upper back.  Practicing with a teacher, which for so long had really been my only experience, is now a bit of a foreign experience for me.  I [...]

Organics, authenticity etc.

So far, this week has been quite wonderful for no particular reason.
After completing a huge project, my boss took the whole office out for lunch yesterday, showered us with gift certificates to a particularly lovely spa and then sent us home for the afternoon. What a difference it makes to feel appreciated by your [...]