The show that never ends

One of the dogs I am in charge of keeping safe, got out on my watch and bit a neighbor.

I am dogsitting for a friend 45 minutes down the Pennisula.
Commuting to The City for works means no yoga for the last seven days. Miss daily mediation of the practice.

BYC is a very calm studio.

Everyone is quiet inside the studio.

Managed to squeeze in a class at Yoga Health Center in San Carlos.

Last time I was here in this small room the instructor used an amplification system. That bounced me right out of the class as she was a "countdown" gal. Countdowns are crazy making to my mind.
I entered with a mixture of trepidation and desperation. .
The studio now has rubber floor. I saw spray bottles labeled lavender. Starting panicing about "aromas".
No one sprayed the bottles. Break.
No burning gases or artificial chemical odors in the classroom BIG Break.

The students were all chattering inside the studio. Trying to find the zen center of my brain.
The road to calm me is a steep and twisted one.

It has been one or two years since I have taken a class here. The studio is small and not very deep.
Here they mark out the places where you can place you mat. You get more room to your left and right but the person in front of you has to keep their head to the mirror or their feet will be in your face. the ceiling mounted blower heater was to my left. I felt the top layer of my skin crisp as it was blown onto my skin. I expected scabbing.

Last time I was here in this small room the instructor used an amplification system. For 1000 sq ft studio. That bounced me right out of the class as she was a "countdown" gal.

Countdowns are crazy making to my mind. I entered with a mixture of trepidation and desperation. .
The instructor was not the owner but some gal who sounded like heidi klum. She did not use a microphone Break. If she counts down I am AUT. It has been years since I attended a scripted class. She gave wildly different instructions for standing bow, raise your arm first! That was shocker.

Feet in my face during the floor series prompted me to scramble for a new spot.
I could not believe how much easier it is to breathe in this aroma free class room.
I am going back this morning.

Yoga Tip of the day:

The End

Day 95 l 0 to go

It is Over. Drove in from Woodside this morning. Forgot my mask. Air didn't seem that bad. Only soft tissue in face went numb. Arrived with ten minutes to spare.

There was only residule toxic detris in the air.

(the room gets no ventilation)

Invisible layers of ionized debris.

I thought I caught a break as there was none of

the new uberstrong "?" in the air.

Then the instructer turned on the Fumigation Factor.

Head felt like it was going to explode.

mesage to lungs was "shut down now,

toxins are about."

Not the best way to perform yoga.

Felt hives rising under my skin.

Yuck!

Yoga tip of the day: If the room makes you sick

do not stay in it.

Hip Rotations

94 l 6 to go

Busy day :: 6 to go :: 6 to go :: 6 to go :: commuting from Redwood City in the middle of a remodel project that will not end. High hopes for yoga inprovement despite aromatheraphy breathing problems = head, inner ear, lungs knees are all taking a hit

Carry on, make it work, as Tim Gunn would say.

My suits are now beginning to hang off me abit, this I attribute to Dr Joel Furhman's book, "Eat to Live".

Bikram Yoga tip of the day: Tulansana Balancing stick pose: Adjust your hips before you tilt so they are parallel. Lock your standing knee. Make sure you arms and elbows are locked against your head and keep your chin up so you can see your front knee or your fingertips in the front mirror. Pull with equal force from your elbows to the tips of your fingers and from your knees to the end of your big toe. Rotate your elevated leg so your knee cap is facing the floor.

CRUSHING JENNIFER

day 93 l 7 to go

Fatitude.

It should be a word for how fat people are treated.

As in, "Gee, that boy throws down some mean ass fatitude."

The skinny little stick figure that was the reigning queen of the yoga warrrior wall has been bested, crushed, pulverized by the morbidly obese old lady wearing a gas mask in the corner!

HAHAHAHAHAHA.

7 to 100 - 8 more day to 101 and then a break.

Yoga tip of the day: If it gives you a headache -

get outta there.

Friday

day 92 / 8 to go
4:30 pm class still wearing GM respirator mask
Life is imitating a todd haynes film.
wondering if it will ever be safe to take the mask off.
Today I matched the highest number days in row 92..

And A Way we go

91 l 9 to go




Snuck into class with a low tech $7.50

respirator mask for the 4:30 pm.




Yoga dog, who usually sidles up to

or ear tugs went bonkers barking, so the mask was announced.



Headache from morning was still there but it did make a significant difference.

Face felt it was being eaten by maggots, a few balance problems but made it through the entire class. Soaked the mask.

Yoga tip of the day:

Here is a great diagram of rats in water maze

Toxic Shock Syndrome

Thursday
Day 91 l 9 to go
shoving Kleenex up my nose
to protect brain and lungs from damage.

Left before class started.

Off to buy a respirator at the
hardware store.
I want to finish this challenge.
Love the class
love the ability to breathe.
No choice.