Vanilla-scented laze

It’s been a slow week over here at Chez but I was alive. Between the moon day and then three four days of Lady’s Holiday, there was pretty much no yoga.
I don’t know what my body’s deal is, but it’s felt the need to throw me for a loop these past few months. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Checking for a pulse

Okay. I’m a liar. You caught me.Yes, I came back from the blog hiatus only to leave again.
I have an excuse this time though, I swear. I’ve been off for the last week. The Guy and I took a roadtrip down to Richmond, VA to attend the wedding of an old [...]

hiatus.

I haven’t blogged, because I haven’t felt like it.
It used to excite me. It used to quench my thirst for writing.
Now, perhaps as a byproduct of working as a writer, it’s become a chore that I dread rather than savour.
So for now, I’m taking a break from writing. I’m still around ashtangi.net [...]

25

If today is your birthday:
You work well with those in authority who are independent and original. You could find yourself engaged in nonconformist causes this day. You are always ready to promote what is independent and innovative. You like radical approaches and find yourself quite interested in breakthrough advances, such as voice recognition, or eye [...]

Thali

Why is Indian food so insanely filling? I don’t get it.
The Guy isn’t a fan of Indian (it shocks me that I didn’t dump him after learning this!) so I took the opportunity to grab some tonight while he is out giving some sort of legal talk. I’d heard about this Indian restaurant [...]

Blob

I’ve been absent from every aspect of Ashtanga lately: this blog, the wider online community and the practice itself.  And now I feel like a gigantic blob.
I was consumed by coordinating my organization’s conference.  Then I was at the conference for 6 days.  Then I came home and was completely overwhelmed by and enveloped in [...]

8 Things.

Apparently I’m it! Jenna tagged me for the ‘8 Random Things’ meme. So here they are:
(1) I have naturally curly hair and I can virtually guarantee that you will never, ever see me with straight hair, as I feel it makes me look like David Bowie (no one else agrees with me [...]

Many levels of “ouch”

Here’s a useful tip: if you start your day with a congested nose and a sore throat and follow that up with a  a pretty hardcore Mysore practice (with a teacher!), do not spend your evening drinking too much prosecco and sauvignon blanc with your boyfriend’s mother and sisters at a family dinner.  This will [...]

Sinuses and Summertime

Okay, so I’ve been M.I.A.  Quite honestly, I just haven’t had anything great to write about.  And let’s face it, no one really wants to hear me blather on in saccharine posts about The Guy, or far-too-predictable posts about yoga injuries (haha…I do laugh when I think about how non-ashtangis must snicker when they hear [...]