You talking to me? You are the only one talking...

Day 16  l 84 days left
BYSC had the instructor with the headset so I left before the audio assault began and went to Yoga Health Center in San Carlos instead. I know I am supposed to be open. Maybe next year. This year I choose to be small minded about amplification. It's old Opera house training. If Kathleen Battle could get her voice over an entire orchestra and clearly magnificently up to the patrons in the balcony, anyone with a diaphram and decent lungs in small room should be able to do talk at a whisper and be heard. No one else is talking. Why do you think we can't hear you? You talking to me? You talking to me?  Bobby D. rescue me. 

 People at the San Carlos are nice. Some are chatty and too busy inside the studio, They leave bottles of smelly stuff and people get up in the beginning, middle or worst of all, at the final savasana and spray, spray spray agent orange all over the place with no concern for those who are meditating. You spraying at me?  You spraying at me?  Sometimes I leave the studio and take my final asanana in the lobby and lose the heat, but skip the smell.

 Not quite the same thing. Why cant people clean their matts at home? Why provide distractions inside a studio? The studio here is  very narrow. There was a big puddle of sweat on the floor when I am in, yuk.  Luckily  there  was no one in front of me so I could position myself in front of Lake Ewie.   I do like this studio.  It keeps the students on their matt and has them turn rather than straddle their matts. This is much more hygienic.  I am surprised at how many people leave their feet off their matt. The floors are not cleaned between classes and if you sweat, you should keep sweat,and your feet, on your towel and your matt.  This class was not as hot as I would have liked. Instructor turned off the heat before we hit the floor. I am old and crave the heat to move my weary joints.  Instructor was soft spoken, and gave great instructions.

Yoga Tip of the Day: Utrasana Camel's Pose. Why  they call this pose Camel I do not know. 

 A stretch of the front of the body. It can bring up dizziness, nausea is common and emotional feelings. Don't worry, just see it and let it go.   This pose is good for what ails you, flushes blood to the kidneys, stretches your front, which never gets stretched in the world of computers, driving and couch potatoing.  Start kneeling with your knees and feet 6 inches apart. Place your hands on your lower back, push your hips towards the mirror, past your knees. Elongate your spine and neck, allow your head to release all the way back so you see where the wall meets the floor. Drop your hands to heels,  one and a time and open your chest to the ceiling. Breath and stay here. 

Dimples of Venus

 8 l 92  days left.

 BYSC.  No heart in the class.  Worry on the mind.  Did the late night class  make me fretful about a daytime class?  Work weighs on me and I was not focused. The mind interrupted the practice mentally. Not in room, not in moment. Each posture was a struggle to come back to center. I rested mostly, doing one set and attempting to quiet the mind. Kept losing my balance, my place  in the class, in the body,  in the mind.  Each class is very different
Went through the motions. Kept the breath active. Stayed in the room (!) and walked out alive. Felt like a newbie.

I am not a Baptist and that is not me on you tube.

I have very pronounced Dimples of Venus. I thought everyone had big  dents in their lower back.
 I was in an ER. The ER Baby Doc on duty asked if the dents in my back were due to damage from a beating. 

I began to think someone dented my back with their boots.  It was just my pronouced Dimples of Venus.
 I read somewhere recently,  if you have Dimples of Venus, you are at higher risk for obesity.

Who knows what is true. Republicans? Scientologists? (holy crap, Batman!)  Muslims? Me? I don't believe in Newt Gingrich or Tom Cruise, ( vote Newtie he is a cutie! Open marriage, line up if you want to love him madly) Plus-  I don't claim to know anything about birthing any babies.

 I think Doctors don't know what they are talking about 50% of the time. (or more if they are over 45.)  I 100% love Doctors  50% of the time.

Life is a coin toss. Eat vegan, if you can learn to, lots of greens, nothing from a box and nothing delivered to you to eat through a car window is really food,  it is really poison. Meditate a lot. You are going to die anyway. You are what you eat. I's rather be kale than than a cow,  yes I would, if I could,  I surely would. Hopefully it might be less painful  to die if you are healthy, but that to is a coin toss, too,   A good heart attack will  take you on it's first try.  So maybe eating cows and dairy is the  best way to go. Karma is bitch.   Bitches are purposeful creatures that create life and are super tough. Life is all about Dogs and Bitches to me. Too  mcuh time spent with breeders.

Yoga tip of the day:Dhanurasa Bow pose. Why teachers use the image of wheel  when talking about legs is beyond me. The last of the floor spine strengthening series. Reach back and grab the outside of each foot, two inches below the toes. Keep the knees and feet as close together as possible and make sure that the wrists are falt and straight. Kick back- pushing the legs up and into the hands. Keep lifting and roll so all you weight balances on your stomach. Keep the knees about hip width (6") distance apart.