Just spent the last four days in Paris, came back craving a proper practice. Saturday no practice,
Sunday in the hotel, minimal Vinyasa Krama key asana, pranayama etc.
Monday, same as Sunday, minimal practice,
Tuesday, no practice due to checking out. (Of course I could have got up at 5am but the floorboards creaked).
Perhaps it was all the walking but my bones ached (Picture from the House of Bones, natural History Museum paris), forward bends were agony by Monday and I was both dreading and yet craving a proper practice.
As it turned out it was a nice Primary this morning. Up at 5:30, practiced from Six. Made a point of a full ten Sury's and took my time through Standing. By Paschi' I must have been nicely warmed up because forward bends were fine again. A renewed respect for the Standing sequence.
All of a sudden the Vinyasa Krama course in LA is upon me. Less than two weeks. Still nothing concrete re housing, I need an address before I hit immigration. Why is the University dragging it's heels on this, don't they get it? I heard, after emailing, that I am assured housing but I still need an address.
What mat to take, what to wear during practice (my skimpy home ashtanga shorts ain't gonna cut it), which books to take.... hate thinking about stuff like that. I like to just dump some clothes in a bag, grab my passport and be done with it. And of course, if it turns out I'm not going to be on campus after all the whole clothes/mat/bag equation changes completely, uggg. Almost feel like forgetting the whole thing and going to my old cave in Crete for a month, practice there all day instead.
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Can you just use the course address?
Linda-will you ever be making your blog public again?
Hi Hanna! I would like to, but I need to find out, for sure, WHO called me pretending to be my plastic surgeon friend, to convince me to take out my own stitches. It's a bit of a Twilight Zone mystery...
Unless I can reliably restrain myself from blogging about future events it's not safe!! Everything turned out ok, but...
Oh wow...sounds like a bad dream! Good luck with the stitches-with a professional I hope!
Anyways...I thought I'd ask because I bet I'm not the only one wondering. Your asana videos are crazy cool!
Yours too Grimmly!
Thanks Hanna :) I haven't been recording much these days anyway. Perhaps when I get back to it I'll make Yogisacrilicious public again.
I went to see my REAL doctor friend the next morning, after he called looking for me & we figured out what had happened. I am healing pretty well, thankfully. But yes between the accident and those impostor phone calls, I think it was the strangest two weeks of my life!
Yes, Grimmly, the last three days I was sick, I fed on the standing sequence...best part of the Primary.
Good point, Boodie. Had thought about it but was trying to play down the course aspect re the earlier visa hassle. better than nothing though. in the end it's going to come down to whether I get someone awkward on the gate.
You've gone private, oh no!, remember you said you might. I assumed someone had texted you can't believe they actually called, pretty sick.
thanks Hanna
Hey nappper, sorry you were sick, funny how the asanas you rushed through in the beginning begin to seem the most interesting
Grimmly, I often experience pre-trip desire to cancel--it's not an unusual feeling. All these little pre-trip decisions, take a good mat, a notebook, one book; your shorts will work with a t-shirt anywhere, and you can pull off the t-shirt if/when needed during practice; comfortable walking sandals, you're all set!
Your right of course Anon, keep,it simple.
There seems to be movement on housing, it seems to be confirmed and I should get an address in a day or two. All's well with the world.
funny that you put pictures of bones, Grimmly. Linda Sama wrote about yoga being in the bones.
cheers, A
ok ok, what about this cave in crete? sounds wonderful! of course you'll be fine, I always take way too many books and clothes and always wish i had less.... one book, and 2 sets of shorts sure you'll do a little shopping there too! enjoy! sounds wonderful. still haven't worked up the courage for the lotus sequence, and being the type a that i am i like to start at the beginning, so have been doing the standing toe holds crouching down sequence.....very intersting, shocked myself when i found i could stand up...and some very peculiar muscle soreness the next day....shall work slowly through...am liking it very much though.....thanks for the heads up!
Arturo, i was trying to find an opportunity to post some pictures of the House of bones, however tenuous.
Hi エスタ, have posted a picture, up on the right of the blog, of a view from the cave. Was a bit like that Decaprio movie, directions to it would be passed around on the back of a beer mat.
Haven't even thought about what I should take apart from for practice. All my old shorts are from a couple of years ago when I was twenty kilos heavier, hate shopping.
Books.... Haven't received a reading list for the course. I'm assuming Ramaswami's own books, then Sankara's Yoga Sutra's and possibly his Brahama Sutras too, only flicked through that so far. The Gita, Upanishads..... really wanted to take the Mahabharata which turned up this week but it's already too big a pile. Five weeks, nice chance to get stuck into some reading.
Those squats are killers, will not be my finest moment on the course. The toe hold one is just about OK but the others...... Engaging both Mula and Uddiyana bhanda really seems to help as you lower down, helps with the control.
I found that with VK, all these muscles we don't tend to use in Ashtanga, especially the legs. glad your getting into the book.
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