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June 12, 2007
The Sweetness On The Mat
I am in love with my practice. I had sorta fallen into a fickle relationship with it. Too much work, too much time... but, right now, my practice is absolutely everything I need. It's mental freedom, it's physical enough to get me to stop paying so much attention and it's fun.
Yesterday's practice was lovely and soft. Today's practice was just rock solid awesome. Sweat and work... I even got to use my teacher's favorite jest "Too many cookies" back at him today (as he sat on me for Bhekasana and I croaked like the tadpole I was). Nope, I still haven't landed chatarunga from Bakasana A's exit but I don't care. I didn't even really try hard (even though Tiff's man practicing next to me did an effortless exit from Bakasana A after Uttanasana and I was extremely jealous.
My heart is opening... amazing the coincidences in life that can cause a physical transformation. Today, fingertips on heels in Kapotasana... and backbends were as delicious as backbends could ever be. I could have done 20 of them... instead I opted for savasana.
~ Om Shanti Shanti Shanti ~
Today's bit of Rumi (from The Glance):
Face that lights my face, you spin
intelligence into these particles
I am. Your wind shivers my tree.
My mouth tastes sweet with your name
in it. You make my dance daring enough
to finish. No more timidity! Let
fruit fall and wind turn my roots up
in the air, done with patient waiting.
Posted by ashtangagirl at 1:31 PM | Comments (2)