My practices suck on Thursdays. They do. Everytime I try to practice on a Tuesday or Thursday I suck. Is it because I never usually practice on those days and my body resists? Last night's practice was good and deep for me. An ashtanga prep class -- standing series but only a few seated postures before backbends. Up the wall, down the wall... my teacher was very stern with me, my chest wasn't open enough in my chatarunga (which is quite possibly the most hated event for me in all of my life -- pity there are so damn many in the first series!).

Tonight the lovely Kiran was teaching and I just flat out sucked. She had us do Surya Namaskra C (and if you really want to know the flow she'll have to tell you) but basically, as best I could make out, we did the entire standing series from back to front on ONE side with the addition of the "half moon" pose (I think it's what it's called) and the standing splits then we did on the other side. I cannot begin to tell you how messed up my body was. I knew I loved ashtanga because, for me, it is so meditative, I very seldom have to "think" where my body is going, my body just does. It's used to the movement, it knows what direction to head next and tonight I was truly baffled.. where does my foot go, am I facing the right direction, twist what way? Just changing the sequence, changing the direction I'm facing had such a dramatic effect on me. I can't say I didn't like it but it tripped me out. After some sitting postures when we did the first few backbends of second series I had to stop and ask if anyone else had the pain of their life in the pubic bone. In Shalabhasana and Dhanurasana my pubic bone was in such pain that I really couldn't go as far into those postures as perhaps I could have... I noticed one girl used a blanket under her so I will try that next time. Release and let go...

No yoga next week as I will be attending TechEd on Microsoft's dollar (WHOOHOOO) and am so excited I can barely stand it. 7am-7pm or later of programming, programming, programming... can you see the nerd in me shining through? I am working in the hands-on lab for Microsoft as well so if you'll be at TechEd, look me up! I'm thinking maybe I could get in a morning practice here or there but I can't find a studio with one and I can't risk waking up my kids at 4:30am to do it here. There will probably be little to no updates here either as I'll be out late hobbing it up with the programmer gods from all over the country :)