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worst savasana ever

i forgot to mention that in my kundalini class yesterday i experienced the worst savasana of my life due to a child FREAKING OUT directly behind me. parents, please if you are going to being your child to a class full of weird energy flying around you might want to actually make sure that this does not freak out your kid.

mta mala meditation

funny timing. Oliver posted about a man hiding within a cocoon of cigarette and xtra large headphones at 830 in the morning, to which I commented with my own story of how i need headphones on my morning subway commute or I feel overwhelmed by the amount of commotion that early.

everything is ok, even when it's not.

Hello SW! 

It's been a while. I send my greatest, most sincere apologies for my absence. I am...fine. My body is a hot mess, however. Over a period of 4 weeks I've:

-poked myself in the eyeball with my pinkynail, scratching my cornea. which heals, and then repeatedly re-opens...maybe every other night during REM cycle sleep.

i had to share this funny.

:)

extended rest, gut development and incomplete Feralization.

I've set a record of how many days sans yoga I can go. Throwing out ones back (sacral spine area) is a doozy! You just can NOT push it. And trust me, I tried. After the first 2 days of bedrest I felt that it was not so bad and that I could make it through a yoga class by taking it easy and not pushing while there. This

out of commission: day III

I *may* go to yoga later to see if I can just skip the vinyasas and be gentle, oh i'm gettin old! where's the bengay??? did a 25 breath headstand just to get out of my head since i'm stuck at home working and my back hurts more sitting at the comp. pigeon pose, uttanasana, janu sirsasana's. free'ed some space in the lumbar/sacral spine. maybe would be good to get out.

A conversation between body and mind.

Relaxing.

I'm forced into a state of relaxation. Here's how it went:

body: (during a tumultuous, rigorous week of photo work, yoga teaching and taking and 2 kinds of dance training for workshops and performances)

lower back FAIL

tiger balm fail. ain't doin the trick for this back pain today.

rest, you win! perhaps a sauna visit. Dance rehearsal tonight will involve me "miming" my way through the moves whilst standing rigidly moving my arms around like a lunatic. Must be there to practice, even if my full body cannot participate!

slump kvetching.

i'm in a mid-challenge-i'm-overworked-and-broke-and-have-too-many-dance-yoga-commitments slump! sigh sigh sigh!!!! it's yoga bharatanatyam masala bhangra retouching overload month. it is! 

Feral Kitchari Recipe!

I am out of commission for the next day or two. Not able to work as a photo retoucher because I only have one working eye! (scratched my cornea!! mofo hurts!!) Not sure I should work out, sending blood to the brain or tensing my facial muscles could lead to me blinking bad, opening the cornea cut again. but my FEATS are not going to be lost!