Sunday, November 22, 2009

Day 14: Does this even count?

Today was 11am up at Dray's with Sharon. Sharon has been teaching for quite awhile and has this fabulous energy about her. In addition, she is a veritable fountain of knowledge with these postures. Great advice peppered in with her dialog. Today I was unable to really take advantage of this knowledge. The room felt pretty humid and I was raining by awkward. My body felt tight and restricted, as it often does during a morning class. I was totally worn out by the time the standing series was over. I hit the floor and got sharp pains under my ribs. I also felt like I was going to toss my cookies. By the time camel came around I barely had enough energy to lift an arm, much less execute a situp and then setup for camel. I ended up sitting out one camel, one rabbit and both separate leg stretchings. I would attempt to get up and do the posture, only to turn around and lay back down on my mat, forehead crinkled up in exasperation. It was one of those days where the only positive spin I could put on it was "hey, at least I stayed in the room".
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11 comments:

  1. Big GNovember 22, 2009 at 10:04 PM

    Been there, done that. I bet tomorrow will be really good!

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  2. thedancingjNovember 22, 2009 at 10:39 PM

    Did I mention to you that one time when I was practicing by myself, I lost motivation and just went to sleep in the middle of the series? THAT one didn't count. You stayed for the whole class, you did 26 postures (more or less), that DEFINITELY counts. ;-)

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  3. CristinaNovember 23, 2009 at 3:33 AM

    You stayed in the room, It counts!
    Some days are just like that and as one of my teachers told me it is important to just listen to the dialogue those days.
    I had one of those days Saturday, maybe even worse, the only thing I could do was to move my eyes upwards in Camel laying on the floor.

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  4. tracikNovember 23, 2009 at 8:36 AM

    Oh my dear we have most definitely all been there. Fun? No. But you stayed in there and did great. Here's to a great practice today for you :)

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  5. ciritaNovember 23, 2009 at 8:47 AM

    Of course it counts!!!!! Like the teachers say "it's yoga practice not yoga perfection";)

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  6. bikramyogachickNovember 23, 2009 at 9:00 AM

    Thanks everybody! I am very encouraged. Today is my bday. Perhaps an awesome class is in store for me? If not, it's a gift just to be there!

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  7. ciritaNovember 23, 2009 at 9:29 AM

    Happy Birthday!!!! I wish you the best BY class ;)

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  8. tracikNovember 23, 2009 at 11:16 AM

    OOOOOHHHH! Singing in my fantastic sing voice: Happy birthday to you...Happy birthday to you, happy birthday, happy birthday, happy birthday to you! Happy Day Michelle. Hope all your hopes and dreams come true. Spoil yourself silly today girl!

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  9. Duffy PrattNovember 23, 2009 at 11:33 AM

    Happy Birthday.

    Each time the studio has a challenge, I try to convince a bunch of the participants to take one class together simply lying down, just to test whether it's really enough simply to stay in the room.

    If the practice is wiping you out, how can you really doubt whether it counts?

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  10. CristinaNovember 23, 2009 at 11:59 AM

    Jag må hon leva, jag må hon leva... (Happy birthday in Swedish)

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  11. bikramyogachickNovember 23, 2009 at 1:07 PM

    Thanks for the birthday wishes!! (my last 30 something bday..how strange!)
    Duffy~ you're right, I was totally wiped out. So it does count after all! (I must have been suffering misplaced yoga guilt)

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