I'm a mess. At least I finally cried for real. I'm so sad and happy, I don't understand/can't take it. #realtalk

Visa in hand, modified primary practiced (thanks for the company, Em), and now dinner with friends.

Today, I taught my last class of the year. It was also that last class before I leave for India. I'm going to miss my students... a lot.

Super full. Super happy. Picking fights over family "fun" games. Bingo!!

Go Ho!

Creating things with love... and feeling pretty Christmas-y. 🙂

Really, Tadasana? You're changing? When I press my ankles bones firmly into one another, something *happens* now. It's like yoga 101 up in here.

Nothin' wrong with feelin' better.

~ 75 % better !!

Feeling ~ 50%.

Can't tell the difference between food poisoning & the flu... But please make it stop. Please.

Friends <3.

Hey Rocketeers, traffic's awful in gtown!

Keep swingin' 'till you can't see, then swing some more. It'll be a TKO, one way or the other. Swing, swing.

No status is a good status!

All I really want is a neck rub and some diet cranberry gingerale.

Tenacity is huge.

How can you make Cheetos natural.

The Muppets are so specifically DC. Sam & Friends started here. I love being Muppetational.

Did a metcon at Crossfit Praxis today. Brutal fun. I'll be back!

I've finally got a phone 🙂

Too stressed out. Taking a few moments to create and be.

I'm sure someone has noticed, but I'll be without a cell phone for another 17 hours. That'll make it a nice, even 3 days sans phone.

Uh oh. Way too much coffee.

is immunized.

This morning is not going well.

DO NOT EAT AT CHIK-FIL-A! They are 100% antigay. A percentage of every dollar you spend goes to support oppression and inequality: antigay organizations, politics, & politicians. Tell your friends that eating there is like eating at KluKluckChikn.

How efficient can I be? Bhekasana in an hour & a half? Fingers crossed. ( PS: back on the grid)

I thought I lost a contact this morning, but I didn't. I just needed to view the world with a different lens.

Pseudo off the grid. No cell. Ruh roh.

Back in the District!

Gobble.

Takin' pleasure in other folks' bravery. You come. #mysore

Pretty much the most content boy ever.

I'm super in to staycatiom.

Pashasana & Back Squats don't mix.

Bummer: Tomorrow's my last day practicing with David Keil (its been great). Silver Lining: on to Antonella Accinelli. 46 days till India.

Anyone got a spare wireless router? Mine kicked the bucket.

I have been told to stop thinking no fewer than 3 times this week.

"There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs."

Self Yoga Coaching: Recording my Primary Series Practice to Richard Freeman's commentary, then watching a split screen of us together. (I may have gone off the deep end)

In my quest to stream Richard Freeman lectures and videos, I discovered that the DC Public Library streams books and videos. How glad am I to be a member of the Library?!

Funny, I lift by myself and practice in a group-- a change from three months ago. Before you (I) judge my lack of morning mysore practice, I have to remember that Urdhva Dhanurasana is not the only way to feel Kundalini rise-- and that I will miss my weightlifting whilst in mysore.

I love Iyengar yoga, Ashtanga yoga, and Olympic Weightlifting. Juggling them, however, is hard.

Friends? Fuck yeah!

Om Gum Ganapatayei Namaha

... i may not be mainstream ... Is anyone IN the mainstream?

My morning practice has been stalled by evening practice. A bad habit, but more time for yoga reading. Anusara Exodus (not surprised), Yogasam (its real! ish), and 48 Questions with 3 Gurus... good reading!

Sometimes, I just need a lead class.

Aaaaand the Shala confirmed my registration. Its all happening.

"Don't you have to practice? Get up."

I've always wanted a zombie boyfriend-- the kinda guy that wants me for my brains, but treats me like a piece of meat.

"What's more important: someone knowing your teacher's name, or your teacher knowing your name?"

Today's big lesson: Don't be a bigot. And when you see a person in the act of bigotry, don't be afraid to use the term "bigot." It's a word that should make the skin crawl, and as such, one shouldn't be afraid to use it in correct context. Call a bigot a bigot, please.

I cheat on Ashtanga with Rocket. Lipstick on the collar: Marichiasana C isn't after A?

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger. What doesn't kill you makes a fighter. Footsteps? Even lighter.

Good advice from someone I trust

So filled with love. Exhausted, home, and happy. My family just got a bit bigger. 🙂

"Recovery Brunch" says the day planner.

My people.

Being the best man to my best friend is pretty much the best. All is full of love.

When Sebastian was a puppy, I had to let him cry himself to sleep so that he would grow up and be self reliant. Today I practiced without pain, but am stronger for having felt it.

Its a good thing I like practicing awareness, cause I can be really, really oblivious. 🙂

I lurk on UK Music Message boards... one of my favorite expressions? poppero'clock

Lunch with Mama Hall and Papa Hall, Rocket at Embrace Yoga DC for Dinner, Dancing with the wife. Saturday? Morning yoga with Shelby Thompson, day-play with Michael Roike. Sunday? Go back in time.

A month of 90% vegetarianism: check. Tomorrow: back to STRICT paleo. No modifications (no dairy, no roasted nuts, not even a smidge of sugar). Lets see.

creativity > espresso

The beat part of owning up to your mistakes is getting to learn from them.

Oooh-- hey guys, the 6:15 class is totally on today at Balance Gym. Come play!

Am I silly in thinking the Occupy DC stuff is a little off-the-mark by staging something when the Fed is on Holiday?

Was reminded of MA Durga and the emphatic nature of fight, flight, or collapse via the strong guidance of Mike Graglia. Breathe deep, y'all.

My Steve Jobs Update: LSD User, India for enlightenment go-er, and a man who also thought that maybe "Thomas Edison did a lot more to improve the world than Karl Marx and Neem Kairolie Baba put together.”

Here's a new pose! Here's a new series! Now give me your towel.

I cannot take my own excitement.

Gosh darn stupid freaking moonday! Agh!

Oh no you don't, Adele. Nice try. I am not spending my Monday evening crying.

Today, I'm taking back my website.

Yoga Sutras by Patanjali,

translation by Barbra Miller

2.2-2.3- Its [yoga] purpose is to cultivate pure contemplation and attenuate the forces of corruption. The forces of corruption are ignorance, egoism, passion, hatred, and the will to live.

2.7-2.8: Passion follows from attachment to pleasure, hatred follows from attachment to suffering.

On Joy and Sorrow
by Kahlil Gibran

Your joy is your sorrow unmasked.
And the selfsame well from which your laughter rises was oftentimes filled with your tears.
And how else can it be?
The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.
Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter’s oven?
And is not the lute that soothes your spirit, the very wood that was hollowed with knives?
When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy.
When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

Some of you say, “Joy is greater thar sorrow,” and others say, “Nay, sorrow is the greater.”
But I say unto you, they are inseparable.
Together they come, and when one sits, alone with you at your board, remember that the other is asleep upon your bed.

Verily you are suspended like scales between your sorrow and your joy.
Only when you are empty are you at standstill and balanced.
When the treasure-keeper lifts you to weigh his gold and his silver, needs must your joy or your sorrow rise or fall.

Its a cup o' coffee in the lap kinda morning. Let's hope the rest of the day is nice & easy.

His angst hung on him like a thrift store suit. The sleeves overly short, the trousers notably long. Like his ambitions and his face. Perhaps too cheap, too poor, or too apathetic-- certainly too old for *this*.

Recurring dreams...

5k success.

To all my friends doing Fight Gone Bad today: Good Luck!!

A Quick Reminder: Call a bigot a bigot. A vote against equal rights (marriage and otherwise) is bigotry. Ugly and impolitic, but: call a bigot a bigot.

Keruig broke, speakers broke, tire popped, saddle loose. Psoas tight, bulging disc. Rain? Pour.

My Keurig wouldn't make coffee this morning. I feel challenged.

This was the kind of weekend that makes my soul sing.

So, remember the talk about Little River in Arlington? It's opening very soon. "Soft opening" I hear 🙂

Woof!

Salutation Nation, Tux Shopping, Grooming, Tosca at the Kennedy Center, Shmancy Cocktails in Formalwear. Go!

Salutation Nation 2011! If you want an outdoor yoga practice with several hundred other yogis Omming as one, this is your best bet all year! 9:00 at John Marshall Park! (btwn 4th & 5th on Penn NW)

Salutation Nation 2011! If you want an outdoor yoga practice with several hundred other yogis Omming as one, this is your best bet all year! 9:00 at John Marshall Park (btwn 4th & 5th on Penn NW).

Control the body to control the mind... And make it pretty.

take me away and make it okay. I swear I'll behave.

is really excited about today.

According to this e-ticket, I'll be home in April.

Any clues on saving money on a flight to India? Bangalore, specifically.

What do you do if you think your dentist is scamming you?

Today is Ganesh's Birthday!!! Ganesh Chaturthi-- a celebration for the overcomer of obstacles & burdens. Jaya Ganesha! JAYA GANESHA!!!!

O hai mango. O bai cleanse.

Thank you so much, dude. I spent an hour getting at my Greater Trachantor, piraformis, glutes, & IT band with the lacrosse ball. Full range of motion. You're a life saver.

I bought 2 cartons of k-cups for my bedside coffee maker... Back to the grind with a full box of grinds. #mysore #sleepyyogi

is on a five day cleanse.

Highly recommends yelling at hurricanes.

"Mayor Gray made another suggestion.

'If you have trouble finding a gallon bottle, just go in there and pour out that wine, and fill it up with water.'"

No.

Hurricane twilight is warm cotton candy purple intermixed with rouge pink strands. A beauty to see, a smile bringer for certain. Equally disenheartening as an adult.