Wandering Mind

God that felt good. I made it into the studio for practice this morning. It was nice to practice with other people and to be in a space dedicated to the practice. I’m still tight on the opposite sides but tight now isn’t what it used to be, say, like a year ago. I was actually able to bind pain free in Mari B (often puts too much strain on my ankle) and went a lot further than normal in Mari D. I’m not going to rush binding on that one. I felt very floaty in my practice this morning which is a lovely change from the heaviness that has been.

I’m curious, as yogis, if as we go through our practice, day after day, and the body is constantly adapting as it does, I’m curious if these stiff and sometimes painful periods aren’t some sort of “growth spurt”. Because if I remember correctly from my childhood, growth spurts are a bit on the uncomfortable side. - That was my random thought in Supta Kurmasana which I almost skipped today and just did kurmasana for twice as long. Kurmasana felt good and I didn’t think my hips and hams were up for supta K so I held kurmasana longer, but after holding it things seemed to open up and Supta K actually felt really good. A lot of the asanas felt good today and I stayed in them a bit longer and relaxed a little deeper. It felt almost cleansing. I’m feeling a connection in my tight left hamstring to my low back on the left side and now that I think about it, when my right ham is exceptionally tight I feel the connection to my low right back. Looks like I’ll have to pull out the anatomy books tonight and see what’s going on there. Another note on the hamstrings- Since I’ve been here I’ve been working at a normal height desk so my legs are constantly bent at 90 degrees, my desk in Buffalo was a stand-up height so my legs were stretched out more often than not. I wonder if that is allowing my hamstrings to tighten up more?

I could almost do a happy dance, it felt so good to open up in a practice. Meetings and drafting will fill the rest of my day. Some days the mundane is kind of nice.