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. [...]

Blueprint

10. The perverse pleasure of aching muscles the day after a serious workout yoga practice. 

–From Blueprint Magazine’s “50 Reasons to Make these Resolutions” (Jan./Feb. 200

 Also, how I will feel tomorrow after tonight’s vinyasa class.  I need something to kick my bum into gear after last week’s occasional delinquency. 

Of unravelling, fragments and adulthood

January 14th saw the unravelling of my to-that-point perfect WoYoPracMo record. Why?  Because of shoes. 
I have a very small window of time into which to fit my practice on weekdays and it occurs between 4:30 (when I finish work) and 6:30 (when The Guy usually gets home from work).  Usually I also have to [...]

Sunlight and beets

I feel as though the first week of WoYoPracMo was thoroughly lacklustre for me (practiced every day, many practices were, frankly, half-assed).  As much as working full time/not having a yoga studio or even a decent practice space limits me, I do find it much easier to practice when it’s part of a routine.  Last [...]

WoYoPracMo: Days 2 - 5

Boring run down: -Day 2: Took a Moksha class. A lot of fun backbending. A lot of ab work. Hurt to laugh, move, turn the steering wheel (who knew how much abdominal strength that required?!) etc. the next day.
-Day 3: In a hotel room while my mum and I were cross-border shopping in [...]

Gloat

Yes, let’s talk some more about me.  I’m so ridiculously proud of myself for my latest accomplishment that I feel like sending out an office-wide email extolling my sudden ability to stand up from backbends.  Alas, I think that would result in a whole lot of colleagues avoiding that-crazy-hippie-who-sits-in-the-corner (yeah, her, the one with the [...]

Um, when did this happen?

So apparently I can stand up from dropbacks. Yes, all weekend I’ve been doing that thing that — in the past — has only happened in my dreams: I dropped back and stood up, then dropped back and stood up, and then I did it again and again and again. More to come [...]

Sticky

I’m fairly certain that I’ve mentioned several times before how much I am NOT a morning person.  Usually this manifests itself in a high degree of irritability.  So much irritability in fact that it prompted some of my grad school classmates to make the comment that I have enough anger in the morning to fill [...]

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 [...]

Ashtanga-ful weekend

This weekend was absolutely incredible, if only for the fact that I managed to fit in two hardcore practices.
Backstory: Friday afternoon I was planning my weekend at my parents’ place. So, naturally, I checked my usual studio’s site to figure out when I could fit in a class. (Note: this is pretty much [...]

Bleh

I feel gross and useless.  The Guy was sick all last week with a pretty nasty cold and I carried on and on about hwo careful I was being not to catch it, how strong my immune system must be, how the uber-hot practice on Monday night would have killed any sort of virus that [...]

NaYoPracMo Wrapup

I actually can’t believe it’s February 1, as I feel like January and NaYoPracMo flew by. I think the past weeks have been the most important time for my practice since I was in Mysore, nearly three years ago. I’ve progressed not only physically, but also, and perhaps most importantly, I now recognize [...]

I’m having a bad day.  And as much as I want to write about it to get it out of my head and onto the page, I’m fairly certain that if I start I will end up in tears (rest assured, it’s nothing major….work related…ugh).  So for now, I’ll just leave this quote that appeared [...]

Not as crazy as they thought

Turns out, the “crazy yogis” were right all along.

11, 12, 13, 14

Yeah, I think I got bored of blogging everyday about practice. Boring. No one really wants to read that much about me. Not even me.
So, for a quick recap: Thursday - full practice, Friday - full practice, Saturday - traditional day off for Ashtangis, did a short, gentle, restorative practice that [...]