I had a really nice practice tonight... Strong, bendy.... I sweated a lot (which, for me, is unusual). My teacher even helped me with dropbacks and I swear when someone helps me the feeling is amazing... I feel like my backbends actually look good...but I can't seem to find that same bend when I dropback against the wall. My first, oh, 7 or 8 jump throughs were so quiet even I couldn't believe it... even my feet didn't make the slide sound. It's so funny to me how one day I can be so completely weak and off and another day feel so strong. I wonder when the day will happen when I'm consistent in my practice? Will that day ever come? Is it about practicing everyday?

A funny thing happened tonight though... about Janu Shirasana A, the girl next to me asked the teacher for some music. I, honestly, at that point hadn't realized that there wasn't any. I was so totally in my zone... and after Krishna Das came on I realized how completely off the music made me. No longer alone with my breath, my focus drifted more often. What I found funny, however, is that after the class the girl said to me "Sorry about the music but I need it to get my monkey mind to stop." First, I thought it was funny that she noticed how much it affected me and, second, I thought how strange that, for me, the music gives me monkey mind, for her, the music helps her monkey mind. The world is made of beautifully different people.