Wandering Mind

The intentions were good, the heart was open…but the mind and body just didn’t cooperate. Actually, it was really just the mind and it distracted the body. I started out great, with a clear mind and a gratefulness for being able to practice, but by the end of the standing series my mind was a jumbled mess bouncing all over the place which made the body less than willing. I almost threw in the towel but part of me still really wanted to practice so I veered off course and played with some different poses. I played with this version of Eka Pada Rajakapotasana which is a big step for me. I used to have a hard time just getting one hand back to my leg… I then moved on to some other hip openers and then to back bends. Oh, back bends. I started out just laying back over the only prop I could find (which happened to be an industrial roll of paper towels) and allowed my front body to open up. Then I moved on to Urdhva Dhanurasana and some variations on that. At one point I rolled back onto my heels and really extended the legs and the arms. Crazy intense. It felt like a cork popped in my spinal column and the energy just went shooting up my spine and I thought my head was going to pop off and sparks would shoot out the base of my skull like a firework… I wonder how long that block had been there…

Anyway, that’s my practice. My mind is all over the place and my work hours are long. Mostly fun, sometimes frustrating but it’s that journey, the good and the bad, the sour and the sweet. And without the curves in the road, you might fall asleep at the wheel.