Moving my practice back downstairs for the summer, Nietzsch' (Chinchilla) gets some peace 'till next winter.
I tend to get restless when I change rooms so a Straight forward Primary tomorrow morning, looking forward to it.
Nice practice this morning, VK Inverted Sequence ten minutes in Shoulder stand variations, half an hour headstand variations, two breaths a minute, very very mellow practice. Pranayama, Pratyahara...
Might be getting a flotation tank package for my birthday, serious Pratyahara, anyone tried it? is it cheating?
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I don't know if you have aches and pains, but the flotation tank is like a long, awesome savasana that makes pain disappear, calms the mind, and makes it easier to focus.
Cheating? Probably.
Worth it? Definitely.
Read about my experience here.
sounds good! i went on a vipassana retreat, and found it really helpful in deepening my experince of pratyahara, dharana, dyhana and samadhi, wonderful, i saw that you are practising vipassana meditation, did you do the 10 retreat too? it's was such a powerful experience, and seemed to taken me further in my practice too. tank sounds great..no cheating~! oh and thanks loads for the podcast links....am really appreciating the raja yoga series. Thank you so much for always sharing so much, I really enjoy reading your blog.
Thanks for the link to your post CK, makes me want to do it for than ever, amused by your obsession with where the door was. My birthday isn't until the end of July so I'm going to have to be patient. I was going to say no aches or injuries to speak of but i guess there are the usual ashtanga complaints. I should do a post on them it's something i never write about
Thank you エスタ. yur vary kind, glad you enjoying the Raja podcasts. No, never been on a vipassana retreat, keep talking about it, occasionally there are vipassana and yoga retreats but I keep seeming to miss them. Talking of links, do you know Gil Frondsal's podcasts on Zencast and Audio Dhama, you can find them on Itunes. Looked into going up to Spirit rock while I'm in the states but it's not going to work out.
I lost your blog I think. I lost my whole list a while back and had to rebuild it from memory and from friends blog lists. Nice to find it again and some pictures of home (Kyoto). Did you do your 10 day vipassana retreat in Japan, where about was that, do you have a link? Will be good to know for when we move back.
Thanks for the info. Shall load those onto my ipod later. My recent thing is to cycle up mountains and listen to zen or yoga talks, seems to work, pedalling pedaling, looking at the flowers, smelling the trees...probably shouldn't also be listening to podcasts and be even more in the moment.
YEs, I did the vipassana in Kyoto, very very intense. I think you'd get a lot out of it. It's like a intensive on the upper branches of ashtanga, especially if you've been reading the sutras about klesa, all totally applicable to yoga. As for a link http://www.jp.dhamma.org/index.php?id=1121 if that doesn't work, just search for vipassana and kyoto. Moving back here eh?? Any idea when or where to?
I'm enjoying reading your blog too Grimmly. It can be a tad isolated around here, with no shala and hardly anyone speaking the Queen's English. However, there's a lot of inspiration to be had from your enthusiasm, great podcast recommendations and, heck, I've even got a yearning to put an orange Manduka on my Christmas list!
Thanks for the link エスタ will check it out. Not sure when, I have a Chinchilla who's getting on in years and don't want to disrupt him again with flights while he's still with us. I like the sound of Saporo, cooler but perhaps not ideal for Ashtanga. Family is in Osaka so it would probably back to Kansai, in the beginning at least.
thanks Steve, be quick with the Orange manduka though, seems the orange one has been discontinued.
I thought for a second you were buying the tank itself! I thought, 'where is he going to put it? His chinchilla will not like it in his room..."
Talk of Japan reminded me of an ashtanga blog I haven't visited in a while, Leaping Lanka, and I just went by there to find he has written a bit more since the last time I visited, yay. Grim, if you haven't run across him, you might like some of the posts from his time living in Japan, doing tons of ashtanga, and about the ashtanga scene there. Here are some...http://leapinglanka.blogspot.com/search?q=japan He's very funny and irreverent and rather hard core, from what I can tell, about his yoga.
Funny but I did wonder if it would be possible to make one.
I seem to remember LL's blog, will check out the japan posts, thanks for that, curious about the japanese ashtanga scene.
There was an article on living in a yurt in the Sunday papers, thought of you.
Your chinchilla's name is NIETZSCHE?! I love it! HAHAHA! It probably misses the calm your practice brings to its room.
There's a Koan flotation thing round the corner from me too and I've always been curious about it. You've gotta report what that's like!
Because if his whiskers. Was going to call him Che, being that he's from S America but he turned out to be such a... pain ( escaped from his shopping Trolly cage one night and I woke up to him sitting on my head eating my hair) Nietzsche seemed more appropriate.
You'll have to wait until the end of July. Did you read CK's post on her own visit? She links to it in her comment above.
Thanks Grimm! Was racing to comment I skipped over the first one with the link! I'm sold, definitely gonna try the one round the corner from me now. Note to self: use the earplugs. LOL!
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