International Womens Day

Attended the 2012 International Women' Day Summit And Awards Luncheon. Inspirational people doing amazing things. Its good to get in a roomful of amazing people from time to time and see what the clever people are wearing. Man of the year went to San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee. Best speaker was Zoe Dunning, Retired Navy Commander of DADT Fame - very funny.

9:30 BYSC Class was amplified so I left. What a waste of an hour, to and fro-ing.  As far as I can tell there is only one who uses the microphone and speakers to "shout" at quiet students in a completely silent room. 

Amplification in such small spaces is an overly aggressive  teaching tool. And it hurts the ears, its good to avoid as much artificial sound as possible -  no stereo, no ipod, no  ear buds, no concerts or shows with any amplification.   

 Maybe sabotage is in order.

Yoga tip of the day: Ardha-Khurmasana Half Tortoise pose   It takes a minute to get heels to hips and  the back straight. Stretch your spine from hips to fingertips. Keeps your palms strong, squeeze our arms to your head, forehead  then  pinkies fingers touch the floor.  Work your palms forward and your hips back. Keep your shoulders away from your ears. Don't round. Keep your back arms and chin straight. Childs pose on steriods.

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.

On a Wing and a Prayer

Room to breathe. Use the throat to draw the air deep down into your lungs. Ignore the crowded room, lack of space and stay with the breath. Always with the breathe. The lack of space may inspire you to fly away. There is energy to be gained forma crowded room.

Yoga tip of the day. Poorna Salabhasana. Move in one piece, as if you are unfolding your joints from your spine.

Does anyone know what day it is?

The challenge is 100 days of Yoga. In a row. Don't know what day this is.

The studio was closed one day in July, and I missed a few days in July.

It's August 1st.

Show up, breathe, stretch, breathe, sweat, and breathe some more.

This the Bikram Yoga. My water bill has gone up.

Today there were aliens (as in never saw them before) in the classroom. ADD challenged, little things distract.

There are 26 poses. The order still eludes. Once we are on the floor, follow along with class and the stay with the instructor. When all else fails, breathe in, then breathe out.

Practice means, show up with intention, breathe, stretch, breathe, sweat, repeat and rest.

Focus only on your practice. Meditate for 90 minutes, no wiping, no squirming, no water no mindless thought chatter.

Alien starts doing push ups in class. Distracted, lose focus, fall out, then back. Started thinking about designing yoga clothes with a logo across the butt ala juicy. Again, fall out, lose place in the class, had no idea where the class is in the practice. the battle against spacy mind chatter is a daily one.

Put the thoughts out, breathe in, start again.

I wonder what day this is. Does not not matter. Breathe in breathe out.

Pose of the day: Tuladandasa. Great trick, make sure your hips are in alignment with each other before you rotate over even if you do not step out as much.