Wandering Mind

Energy was even today and I didn’t crap out about halfway through. I think that’s where the toxic food gets me. My focus was also better this morning and actually all of yesterday, too. I wore a long sleeve shirt through my practice this morning to try to keep the heat up. It worked but was slightly irritating, as I’m not used to wearing a shirt when I practice or if I do it doesn’t have sleeves. But my apartment is only 71 degrees and it was fifty something outside so I wasn’t going to the dock… Tomorrow I’ll be back in the studio and the temperature there is good. I started earlier than normal (6:15). I think my body wasn’t quite ready for that but I think it will be good in the long run. This way I won’t have to watch the clock or rush to finish.

I wish whatever is going on with my left hamstring and sacrotuberous ligament would work itself out soon. I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s not an injury but my body restructuring itself. (No, I have no medical proof to back that up) This is the same thing that happened on my right side and took a couple months to work through. But now that it finally has I’ve had a lot of openings on that side plus my hips in general really opened when that tightness went away. I’m sure I’ll be paying attention to the progress of this as it seems to be one of my most obvious (to me) limiting factors. That and my shoulders but they’re just tight, no discomfort.

After the primary I did my standard second series through most of the back bends. Upper back was really tight but it started releasing and felt really good by Urdhva Dhanurasana. As I started doing UD I asked myself how many I should do, should I just do three or six or somewhere in between but was suddenly reminded of an idea from a book I read a while ago, I can only do one pose at a time so it doesn’t do any good to worry or even think of the next one. So I did one UD at a time… and stopped after four. I’m curious if I were able to take a regular/daily mysore class where I would have to stop (or if I would) in the primary. Saraswati allowed me to do all the poses but she new it was just for a week… May not find out until I make it to India, whenever that will be.