Just chattin'

So I just felt like saying hi, been busy lately, the practice book thing, this subroutine series of posts, hardly time to catch up and see what everyone else is doing, quick glance at post but not really time to comment, engage, apologies for that, bad blog friend.

So how's everything with everyone, practice going well, life good? And who's off to mysore over the next couple of week,s seems like everyone's going this year, looking forward to reading about it.

So, I practiced a straight primary (pretty much) last night. After writing that post about how precise Laruga was in her practice I wanted to see how tidy I could make mine, nahhh, not so much. Bit tighter, cleaner but not even close really. Tried that jump straight into Janu C.... nope, how does she do that.

Oh and I put my hip out.

Well not exactly but feels like it's about to pop out at any moment.

I do this pretty deep badha konasana every day, knees are flat to the mat, my feet turned completely, soles up, chin to the mat. Tend to stay quite some time there and then, more often than not, have a little pop at kandasana, it's getting closer but still a way to go. Last night I had......an opening ( can't help but laugh whenever I hear that or catch the thought going through my head), really good kandasana attempt, knees where coming much further around and down towards the mat, probably the best yet, felt it all ...opening up : ) All seemed fine until I stood up and I find I have this pain just to the right of my right buttock but deep as if my femur is falling out of my hip joint. A little afraid to put any weight on it, hobbling around a bit.

So I did a little more asana, some forward bending, light janu's, hip raising in table pose just to see how it was, try and ease it a little, even did another headstand to let the femur head drop back into the socket i know, I know, how would THAT work).

It seems OK, no harm done I think, did a light Vk practice this morning and sat in siddhasana for a long time doing pranayama so perhaps it is just an ...opening. See how it is cycling into work this morning.

Talking of cycling.... bought a new bike..... and here she is.

No idea what I was thinking of, actually probably THIS,

...been seeing these around a lot recently and they always make me smile and want to be in Italy.

My current bike has a badly buckled back wheel and is pretty wreaked, needed a new one. Was looking for a sensible hybrid but have been tempted by a road bike recently.,never ridden one though and winter's coming. Saw this one BY IT NOW on ebay, pretty cheap anyway but made a frankly insulting offer and a couple of hours later it was accepted. I was hoping they would reject it but also secretly hoping I might get it.

Scares the bejesus out of me, those tiny tires, insane especially given the number of potholes between my house and work, will have to get a helmet, not one of these silly bike hats but a real helmet, full face motorcycle, withstand the force of a charging rhino helmet.

Do you remember a few years back there used to be all those ashtangi do's and dont's,
Don't Swim
Dont run
DONT CYCLE!

Don't hear much of that anymore.

What else... so there's the practice book, more of a Vinyasa Krama thing, trying to make Ramaswami's Sequences and subroutines a little more accessible by laying them out ashtangi style, one posture/variations after another.

I've started a series of posts on the subroutines too, just practice notes really. You have Ramaswami's instruction in his book but I wanted to put down a few notes on what they're like to practice ( not many VK blogs out there to share this stuff around) thought that might be useful. Plus some tricky postures come up that we write post after post about in ashatanga blogs, wanted to include some of those tips and hints too. Idea is to distill the notes down to a couple of bullet points and then put them in the book next update.

Oh I made an FB page for the book too, thought it was a good idea for notifying of updates etc. I sent  a notification out to everyone in my yoga group list but I think it's arrives as a ' grimmly thinks you might like this' type thing. Apologies for that if your an ashtangi and got one of those, haven't divided my FB friends into ashtangi's, kramites and/or biyogi's.

Can't decide whether to post them here too. I posted the back bending one, ashtangi's love back bending posts, wow, you should see my page hits spike whenever I mention backbending. Then I added yesterday's on utkatasana because it has a lot on bandhas, another spike. In the end I pretty much decided to chuck them all on here too, some might be of more interest than others, probably going to be 80 or so posts. indulge me.

So have a nice practice if you haven't already.