Wandering Mind

Back from Practice… It was delightful. I did the standing series followed by the primary and then added in an awkward but relaxed and fun start to the second series. I actually got through about a third of it. Then in the closing series I was working on dropping back and coming up from back bend with a wall assist… I almost made it up once and I actually did drop all the way down once, too. Unfortunately my hands weren’t ready so I landed on my head at a fairly good rate of speed. But I didn’t fall over! It’s good to be thick-headed sometimes. I guess I should add a little thank you to Manduka for their thick black mat... I was actually planning on using the wall to catch myself but I moved a little too far away and my backbend was a little too bent so I didn’t reach the wall.

My meditation at the top of practice seemed to flow toward understanding the roots, the causes, and the foundations of everything in our lives. Not in actually understanding them but knowing that I need to strive toward understanding and finding that from which everything flows. We use the idea in many areas of our lives. If you have a house and the walls are cracking, you can’t fix the walls without first fixing the foundation beneath. As in yoga, if there are alignment issues you can’t fix what you see, you have to step back and find the cause. Blocked energies in one area often have no symptoms by the blockage, the symptoms often show up elsewhere and we need to learn to trace them back. It works as well in our depressions, our procrastinations, and our escapism… what we are doing and feeling aren’t the problem, they are the results of the problem. So what the hell is the problem? What’s Your Problem?

Looks like the weatherman had a problem, too. They said it was supposed to rain all day today but it’s sunny and gorgeous right now. I was planning on working inside today but I think I’m going to the greenhouse and get some flowers and then come back and soak up some prana from all the elements.