The Tuesday/Thursday deal is still a cramp in my yoga schedule. I'm going to try and get in the zone of practicing for "lunch" at the health club. The room is empty from 12-4 so it gives me a nice 4 hour window to work on. I started my practice with Sharath's primary series CD. First, the Sun Salutations go REALLY fast. Is that how fast they go in Mysore led? Then I realized that I simply did not have enough time for a full primary and I wanted to do a bunch of backbends so I switched to a WAH! CD. Given I had an hour, I decided to do 20 minutes of regular practice so I did some standing, some forward bending and then I did my second series poses and I tried Laghu Vajarasana... I can get down pretty close to putting my head down and come back up but as soon as my head touches, bam, I'm down for the count. I didn't try Kapotasana... instead I did like 15 backbends and tried coming up... no go. So I got two bolsters and tried to come up off of those but I couldn't do it. The bolsters made me feel misaligned and unsteady. I came up a couple times off the wall but, in the end, I just got a bit frustrated. Talk about attachment!!!!! I kept convincing myself to just do one more. I have no idea how many backbends I actually did but I was doing them for almost 25 minutes. On the last two I was rocking and was able to get way up on my fingertips but never had the follow-through. I think I was, however, finally able to feel the feeling of pushing into and up through your hips rather than just concentrating on quad strength..that was how I got up onto my fingertips, palms all the way up. I never made it up... but oh well... like Laghu Vajarasana, I think I've decided it might happen in my next lifetime ;)

After I practiced I got up to leave and my legs were shaking... I had about 20 stairs to walk down to the shower and each and everyone was an exercise in not letting my legs collapse underneath me. I took a shower and then seriously contemplated taking the elevator back up so I didn't have to engage those quads again ;) When I got back to work all the secretaries were tittering.... The Husband had delivered a big bouquet of flowers and my favorite chocolates. The chocolates may help my bruised ego and add a few more pounds to my ass but I'm gonna eat them anyway.....