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August 29, 2007
Just A Chillin
When the alarm clock went off this morning there was no second thought of not getting up. It still took me a good 15 minutes to roll out of bed (and would have taken me longer except that I realized I should take a shower before practice)... but today was do or die. Today was the day when you've just stepping a little too far over that very fine line... pull it back in girl, pull it back in.
Practice was... practice. I did just first series today. It seemed like the entire room was filled with new faces, crowded and I didn't even know half the people there (or so it seemed, in truth I probably did). It also seemed like everyone was doing second (or third or fourth I think). Eh, whatever... I was just happy to be there.
A once blogging teacher trainee was next to me today ;) She did Kapotasana, came up and said "I hate that pose." I turned and said "Oh, me too. Me too." I also watched OKRGR do a wonderful Kapotasana today... heels without struggle... very nice work.
I had the thought today that standing up from a backbend is becoming a parlor trick. The parlor tricks are the things you can do drunk in a parol if you wanted (seriously, I have no idea what the phrase means but that's my best guess)... like Bakasana which looks impressive but is really not so hard to do (I said do NOT get out of!). 3 backbends that were stiff as heck and I was standing.. I wimped out on drop backs though.. need much more flexibility to do that.
It amazes me that there is still no Ashtanga in Phoenix... what the heck is up with that? (actually I really like that ashtanga is still so simple and traditional that it isn't all over...) Friday I am in L.A. (but Joey I don't think I'll be able to practice..)
After I cut all my hair off. For those of you that haven't seen me recently, my hair was past the bra line... hadn't been cut in probably a year or more... I'm feeling amazingly wierd without my hair. It's sorta cool, I guess. Practice will be so much easier without having to worry about where the heck my hair is, is going, shouldn't be going that's for sure.
Posted by ashtangagirl at 11:32 PM | Comments (8)