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Wow, life got really busy. No time to blog. But I have been able to maintain the daily practice, except for January 12th, but I'm getting ahead of myself.

January 7 - short practice at home
January 8 - full practice at work gym
January 9 - short practice at home
January 10 - short practice at home
January 11 - very short practice at home
January 12 - what a day. I woke up at 2:30 and couldn't sleep; I should have just gotten up, but my eyes were so tired. Laid in bed hoping I'd fall back to sle… Continue

For some reason I seem to be document my practices every other day; not sure why.

Jan. 5 - mysore practice at the gym at work.
Jan. 6 - mysore practice at yoga studio

First I am very grateful that my work place has the most amazing gym (actually we have 2) that I can work out in whenever I feel like it or my schedule allows. And that said gym has some studios that I can practice yoga in and they even supply the mats. With that said, nothing annoys me more when fellow work employees that I bare… Continue

January 3 - minimal home practice. I needed a rest day; so did only a few poses and held them for 3-5 minutes each. Focusing on breathing and releasing my hips, thighs and psoas.

January 4 - studio - led primary. Teacher decided to do led primary today. At first I was a bit disappointed; as I like the quiteness of ashtanga and getting into my own groove, plus I wanted to do my 2nd series poses and play around more with backbending. At the same time I thought perhaps this is what I needed. At fi… Continue

January 1 - self practice - ashtanga primary and first few poses of 2nd
January 2 - studio - led primary w/sub; made me realize how much I miss my regular teacher. Due to snow storms and vacations I haven't seen him for three weeks. Looking forward to next week week when he returns.

This month I really am aiming to complete a yoga daily practice. I definitely don't plan on doing ashtanga daily; I am planning a light yoga practice and a longer seated meditation on Saturday's and moon days.

I kn… Continue

I didn't get to the front of my mat tonight until 6:15ish pm. Generally the latest I start is 6 - it's a mental thing.

Focus tonight was on breath, bandha's, and the seated meditation at the end. Hamstrings were tighter than normal; however was still able to get ankles crossed in supta kurmasana but the hand bind was just fingers touching. I can either easily grab my hands and have ankles touch or cross ankles and focus on touching/grabbing fingers. Definitely the later is more difficult; hence… Continue