Wandering Mind

That was a good class. What makes it a good class? I don’t know… It just was. What makes a piece of art a masterpiece vs. recycling? Sometimes it’s just hard to put your finger on it. It was challenging, but not exhausting and didn’t commit me to repeated failures. I deepened poses I didn’t know much about and I know more about them than I did. We worked a little second series tonight in class. And once again I was sweating buckets. My hips felt really open tonight, would have been fun to try supta kurmasana or yoganidrasana. We did some pincha mayurasana drills, too. Lovely representation of the need to continue core strengthening. And opening the shoulders. And keeping the elbows in. Maria had us do a prep for krounchasana which really opened the bent leg up for me and allowed me to go more fully into the pose without having to sit on a block like I usually do. My attitude was better tonight and I’m sure that makes for a good class, too. I wasn’t a sniveling little shit like I was in last Thursday’s class. I about did a face plant during the Surya B’s. I was trying to lift my feet up before I float back and one time I didn’t get my left foot up and if the feet don’t go back, the body goes forward… I apparently had a hard time telling my left from my right at times, too. At a couple of points everyone was going one way whilst I unknowingly felt the need to express my individuality so I was going the other way…but over all it was a great class. Why? Who cares, it just was. Now if you’ll excuse me while I try to remember something.

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