Wandering Mind

I’m a cheater. Oh, the heartache. I made the discovery last night but didn’t know the full impact of it until this morning. I’ve been cheating for almost a year now… and now I have to pay the price. I’ve been doing jump backs and jump throughs with bent arms instead of keeping them straight. This allowed my chest to do the work that my shoulders should have been doing. So now (that I’m not cheating) vinyasas are like they were a year ago, I can barely get my feet through if I can at all. Now that I know what I’ve been doing I can change it and I can already tell it will make a huge difference in so much. Lifting into handstands, floating forward and back, all the arm balances. The question on my mind is How long will it take to get back to floaty vinyasas, but I really won’t be going back anywhere, only forward… I skipped a whole lot of vinyasas this morning so that the ones I did do had the best form possible, now as I sit here and type this I can already feel the exhaustion in my shoulders. It’s all in the rear deltoid. I think this weakness has kept me from being able to do a few things that I had been assuming were do to lack of core strength. I’m really happy to have caught this now. I could have gone a long time faking a lot of things and it really would have stunted my progress. This is good. Practice was nice this morning. I obviously played with the vinyasas a lot and everything felt pretty good. The left hamstring feels like it might be improving, but supta K was still pretty tight. After primary I went through second through Laghu Vajrasana, which I was feeling stronger moving out of the pose that usual, stronger legs… All in all, a good practice.

Another gorgeous day. I rode the bike in today, a little chilly at 6:30 but it felt good after practice. New faculty meeting today, then a little more work to get ready for the semester to start and then off to the Gunks for a little bouldering (unless I can find a partner between now and then)