my_very_own_yoga_year amy july i don't like july very much.... by next year, I'll write my essay on how some forms of jazzercise are better than any warrior pose. but this sure doesn't mean I won't be doing warrior poses. and thinking about why i don't necessarily like them. 080711 ... amy wont speak warrior 2 i could have substituted "aerobics" for jazzercise, because I wasn't thinking of jazz, per say, just to clarify. there i go, unedited, again. dilettantesque, too. oh, well. i would never put down my cards in july, anyway. 080711 ... unhinged vinyasa (sp?) especially any dvd by shiva rea yoga + aerobics = vinyasa yoga = full body, mind, heart exercise 080711 ... unhinged tight hamstrings? bad knees? try at least ten breaths in standing forward bend first has contemplated becoming a certified yoga teacher 080711 ... unhinged (well into my third year of yoga) radiohead/yoga mix pyramid song you and whose army? life in a glass house high and dry iron lung street spirit (fade out) *hardly ever make it past this one myxomatosis like spinning plates true love waits 15 steps all_i_need house_of_cards videotape 080711 ... amy thanks unhinged! all the yoga I've ever done involves holding the pose for looong periods of time, and since I'm so cerebral this inevitably leads to my contemplation of the pose itself, which i believe is more of a neurotic, anxious thing than anything else. 080711 ... daxle meditation for uncomfortable yoga pose: Maybe everything is okay. Maybe being uncomfortable for a bit is perfect. 080711 ... unhinged yin yoga --- holding poses for a looooong time. maybe even certain styles of hatha. but really check out some vinyasa. i don't recommend it for beginners, but if you know some basic moves and want something more dance-like it's good. yoga trance dance --- shiva rea yoga helped me learn how to not be so hard on myself and accept myself just where i am. 080711 ... Ouroboros my life right now working at the front desk of a yoga studio- so I can take as many classes as I like which is amazing I'm digging iyengar- I recommend it to everyone- going deep into each pose, understanding the alignment of the body how every muscle is working 080711 ... suicidalchinadoll my ashtanga teacher would say over and over to me everything is already okay and that's okay I miss him. has also considered becoming a certified yoga instructor 080711 ... Ouroboros "Yoga begins when you leave the classroom. It's how you talk to people, the interactions, the joy and warmth, the compassion and caring. It's the inner wellness, the realization of one's purpose in life. All that is yoga." ~Aadil Palkhivala 080721 ... ever dumbening after all these years, i make it my own (with a nod to you, C). http://www.yogacircle.com/images/multimedia/invocation.mp3 080722 ... fiano if you go to India, call it "Asana", they are REALLY snobbish about it....., if you don't they will make you feel very confused and disappointed. otherwise..... i can direct you to a good spot to do 'yoga', you can't beat it, i promise you. Don't let them destroy your determination, mostly they are jealous that they can't be bothered to do it themselves. I was weak enough to let them crack my 3 year routine, don't be as weak as me, BE BOLD. (they were so snobbish, i stopped practicing yoga, instead i went to India to be lied to, yeah.... thats high!) 080722 ... amy so far, no yoga, although I got some shiva rea tapes. i've been doing the "yoga" of taking a walk with the iPod on. i seem to have a lot of conceptual rebellion with warrior poses -- like maybe I don't want to ground my feet, bend my knees (or not) and reach out or up or whatever. it's the reaching part -- reaching out up around seems anathema to me for some reason. besides that the place where i do yoga (don't want to try a class somewhere again just yet) is the downstairs room next to the kitty litter box. (not my cats) good for buddhist meditation, i guess... but i WILL have to try to get in this habit over the winter when I can't take that meditative walk... 081107 ... ever dumbening in setu bandha i'm in it full blast. heading that way in 5 minutes. but, yeah, virabhadrasana not so easy. 081107 ... daxle fall brought our practice into the dark, as the teacher refused to turn on the fluorescent lights. eventually she caved and brought in some dim lamps. 081107 ... ever dumbening yesterday was the one year anniversary of starting at the yoga garden. i have learned tons. lets chat again in another year. 090324 ... unhinged lately i haven't been doing much. but it's never far from my mind. i've seen ads for your yoga studio in the magazine i subscribe to j. i've never been to a class. i toss the idea around in my head to get more dedicated, but i still haven't bitten the bullet on that one. 090325 ... ever dumbening the difference between learning in a class and not is huge. i highly recommend taking the leap. it'll_change_your_life. 090325 ... re_alisma an update to what i've figured out: yoga is an on-again off-again requirement simply because it bridges the gap between laziness and schizoness, which I need to find and often, at that. there are no excuses. also, an abundance of warrior poses brings out the side of me that wants to be so very ambidextrous and, well, bisexual. not that bisexual is against what i want to be, it's just that there's no need to strengthen it because the highest priority is to lessen the confusion. so i like front and center yoga, and that's just the way it's gotta be. knowing what i like, sticking with what i like, and then being like, now i got that and i can do that, and i can feel okay about that. and good about myself, which is not very in tune with the you-gotta-change injunction set forth something more neurotic. 110227 ... unhinged (we already are good just the way we are; the bullshit we do to cover that up is what needs to change) i have abs now that's kinda weird i've always had a belly of some degree it's been so gradual over the years that it's hard for me to remember what i looked like what i felt like 60 pounds ago i have abs now i've watched my body change so slowly it just seems like i've always been this way comfortable aware weird i always was that way underneath 110228 what's it to you? who go blather from