Get on the mat already!!!!! UPDATED

Taking forever to get on the mat today..... notice I said 'today' and not this morning. 'This morning' is long gone.

So it's my day off, I can get up with M. at 8am instead of at 5:30. I could practice then of course or an hour later when she goes out the door but the thought of a cup of tea in bed with the last of the Sunday paper is too tempting.

Then of course there's the new ipad to say good morning to, some blogs to read...

So then it's 10am and I really wanted to break the back of all the washing that's been building up, so I sort out the pile and get a load in the machine.

Then I remembered I'd downloaded the Brushes app that Hockney had been going on about and wondered if there was a guide to actually using the thing. There is and now of course I have to try it out.

A landscape and still life later it sounds like the washing has finished but I have to put the previous wash away to make some space on the racks. Washing hung, might as well chuck another load in... and so to practice.

....perhaps I'll have a shower first, usually too early in the morning on a week day...... and why not a shave, in fact It's time I cut my hair.

So it's 1pm and I'm laying out my mat and setting up my iPad as I wanted to practice along with the Yogaworks, Jois led Intermediate.

Off we go.... but not quite, seems I only have the version I hacked around, not the full series. That's OK I have it on the imac, connect them up and .......

...big mistake, hadn't finished setting the thing up so it's going through the last of the set up steps and then the synching. I started this post on step 3 of 6.

Just as I write that last line, sitting here in my practice shorts and bandana, getting cold and of course feeling hungry beacause I haven't eaten anything for seventeen hours 'iPad synch is complete. Ok to disconnect'. shows up.

So do I practice now or eat something and wait three hours for a late afternoon practice instead?

Every day off I tell myself the same thing, don't change the routine, get on the mat by 6am as usual, 9 at the latest.

And so to practice, no really.

UPDATE

And so I did, took another twenty minutes and even then I was restless, turned down the heat, moved the iPad here and then there before I finally pulled myself together and just got on with it.

I practiced, as planned, along with the old Yogaworks, Jois led 2nd series. It's been a while since I practiced with this, was struck by how slow grandaddy Jois' count was here after the recent month of Primary with Sharath. This of course was a blessing and a curse, a blessing in that you could really sink into a posture, a curse when it came to the bakasana's. I tend to skip the first one, I can float into B readily enough so tend to skip 'A' seeing it as just prep for 'B'. Bit of a shock then to have to do it twice with that slow count.

Despite the slow count while in posture, the series trundles along at quite a pace, such that you have no time to get apprehensive about Kapo or Karandavasana, it's like, "Oh, Kapo already" and your exhaling back into it (half way down the feet here, karanda still squished, oh well).

Practicing late and not having eaten since the previous evening, I was feeling it towards the end, it's hot too, the country finally remembering it's June so sweating buckets. The headstands were nice though, light and airy, shoulder stand too, in fact the rest of the series felt quiet otherworldly .

Needless to say I fell asleep listening to Ramaswami chanting while in savasana.

So a month of led 2nd then?

....and now to half a grapefruit and a fish finger sandwich, breakfast of yogi's