Just chattin' ( Sunday practice, new books....)

Never get to chat anymore, feel like I'm constantly chasing deadlines at the moment.

I wanted to post the practice notes to a new subroutine for my Vinyasa Krama practice book everyday. It's a nice approach, revisit the subroutine in the morning then write up everything that comes to mind when practicing it and writing the post. That was fine for the first week or so, fun but now I'm up to Day 57 and I'm constantly finding errors in the videos I first posted two years ago or with the practice sheets and am having to reshoot videos and make up new practice sheets on the fly.... all to deadline. Going to be a big sigh of relief when it's finished around Christmas/New year, the notes brought together with the practice sheets into a new version of the book.

I'm griping about it but am actually loving it, revisiting some of the subroutines I've neglected in the past, finding new perspectives on them. Virasana for example from a couple of days ago turns out to be perfect prep for the Samakonasana  (loosens up and lengthens the quads ) I've been working on as well as the perfect counter posture (rotates the femur in the opposite direction).

And of course if I didn't stick to a deadline I'd never get the thing written. Just finished the meditative subroutines, Supine is next then the Inverted and finally the Lotus subroutines, one more month.

It struck me a while ago that Ashtanga has a thriving blogging and Youtube community, lots of tips, hints and suggestions going back and forth, a lot of support. Still early days for Vinyasa Krama though, very few blogs and apart from mine only a handful of videos ( although some nice ones from Debbie Mills where posted this week).

Occasionally perhaps a subroutine might be of interest to Ashtangi's I hope so.

PRACTICE
As for Ashtanga, I'm practising mostly Primary in the evening, reasonably straight though at the moment with some extra Samakonasana work. On my days off I'm practicing a blend of 2nd series and Vinyasa Krama Bow and meditative, so Ashtanga....ish. the Straight Primary is a joy.

I'm loving my morning practice, a short tadasana, the subroutine I'm writing up that day for the book then onto twenty minutes of pranayama and thirty or forty minutes sit. I'm back focusing on mindfulness practice in the morning, I find I've missed it.

Books,

I'm behind in my reading, been meaning to do a post on some books I've picked up recently (thus the picture), some of them as a result of the "What's on your Yoga bookshelf 'post from a little while back. Also a post on why I hated the Muktibodhananda version of Hatha Yoga Paprika you see in the picture, ( my spell checker has other ideas about pradipka, amused me so decided to leave it in : ), to be fair I abandoned it after only a handful of pages, read in the bath when I was down with food poison and decidedly irritable, should probably give it another chance.

Desperate to get stuck in to the Samkhya and the Anatomy and physiology book again but have picked up Dona Holleman's Dancing the Flame of life from ibooks, definitely need to review that one soon, wonderful book.






New improved home Shala
M. and I somehow managed to shift the sofa that's been stuck in the Shala upstairs to Nietzsche's (chinchilla) room, much more space in the shall now in time for the mandala subroutines coming up in the Supine and Inverted subroutines. Cant wait to practice in it tomorrow.

Hope everyones practice is going well.