A yoga instructor once told me that doing 5 minutes of yoga every day would change my life. We'll see...
Today is day 300 of this little project and while I’ve missed two days of yoga, I have posted every single day either here or to facebook. So that’s 99.3% compliance on the yoga aspect and 100% compliance on the blog aspect. Tonight, on Christmas night I’m 1 and 1. Not bad at all.
Photo by: Lori Writer
We’ve got to stop meeting like this at this hour. What would I do without the last minute? Anyhoo, just took a quick 6 to do some seated breathing in sukhasana and a few sun sals. I’ve wrapped a bunch of Christmas presents tonight in this really lovely candy cane-like wrapping paper. I like it so much I wish I had more stuff to wrap.
If my yoga practice tonight had a UPC barcode it would be MRYFB12 which translates to 12 minutes of a modified Ripley Yoga for Bleeders.
I crashed out after my flight and running some errands with my Mom. I got up, all dazed and cornfused, then collected myself enough to go do yoga in the living room.
I didn’t bring my mat with me, so it’s going to be all rogue yoga for the next couple weeks. Sarah P. would be proud.
This post may turn into TMI here pretty quick, so look away if you’re not into TMI. Here goes…I just did a bit of JJ “Ripley” Gormley’s Advanced Yoga for Bleeders again. AGAIN! By the way, that’s not the real title on the dvd, it’s called “Practice during Menstruation” or something slightly less crass.
Anyway….Why does it seem like I get my period every other freakin’ week. Holy useless annoying highly regular occurrence, Batman. Oh and I just can’t stand that woman’s yoga dvd. I find her so awful. I found myself remarking once again how much I hated her teaching style and hormones flowing as they are, just had to stop the dvd. If only Ralph Fiennes were a yoga instructor. Oh well…..
Despite the brussel sprout feelings, I did my mini practice tonight to keep the streak alive. Nothing much else to report, except that my lats hurt (presumably from the arms/abs routine and all the down dog)…and Thumbs Up on Avatar. It was kinda Dances with Wolves in Space, but with an inferior script, dialog and acting….GORGEOUS visuals though.
2o minutes on the mat with Ripley this afternoon doing the intermediate arms and abs section. It was good to do a little bit of concentrating on a couple key areas and nice doing yoga in the day. Anyhoo….gotta go…heading out to see Avatar in a bit.
The title is a visual that guru Jeff uses to imagine using the breath to create space in between the vertebra. I’ve heard him say it a hundred times, but tonight for some reason it really stood out, so I decided that it would be the title for tonight’s post. I love the imagery it evokes, though I’ve never felt particularly effective at creating the cushions of light…but I might just be starting to get access to it and maybe that’s why it rang so loudly tonight.
Rodney Yee sun sal practice tonight….and it’s a good thing I was either standing up or in motion or else I would have fallen asleep on my yoga mat tonight. Peace y’all.
I had a lovely half-lotusy practice tonight. I was mostly still…just breathing and being, except the chorus from that Jay-Z/Alicia Keys song kept sloshing around in my head like the last bit of shampoo that you can’t quite get out of the bottle.
