off to stretch for god.
off to stretch for god.
Practice
Overheard in Mysore: “Funny that the gays can’t keep their legs behind their …
Overheard in Mysore: “Funny that the gays can’t keep their legs behind their heads, no?”
4:45 is a totally appropriate time to wake up for a 7:30 start time. Gooood M…
4:45 is a totally appropriate time to wake up for a 7:30 start time. Gooood Moooooorning, Gokulum!
Transportation and Communication, pt 1
I couldn’t have been more frustrated. More people in India have mobile phones than running water– and yet, here we were stopped in front of Sandesh the Prince — another palace cum hotel, not a one of us with an address or telephone number for Sandhya’s. Did I mention that this was a group of people who, in general, didn’t much care for groups of people? Figuratively and literally, we’d been down this road before. A week prior, we had ended up at Sandesh, our driver having misheard our request for Sandhya’s. This time, we had made SURE that the driver knew where we were going, asking repeatedly and determinedly if he knew that we meant the yellow house near the park. You know, the…
On New Moons and Nose Rings
My first full day in India fell on a new moon. One of my favorite things about following a lunar cycle is the tiny bit of joy I get turning my iphone’s little green “alarm” switch from it’s perpetual “on” to it’s quiet white off. There is a visceral unraveling of inverted anticipation. Prone to waking up a few moments before my alarm, this very rarely happens on a moonday. My body just *knows* what the deal is. My loving partner Michael is generally pretty glad that we ashtangi’s take no practice on this day. Before he’s jealous he can’t stay in bed with me, he’s firstly tickled to not have to hear the synthed out buzzer. I cuddled with a travelpillow and cardigan and…
Time Travel
Is it telling that I slept on the car ride from Bangalore to Mysore? The last two times, I was wide-eyed, heck, WILD-eyed, sitting on the edge of my seat. Not unlike my dear pooch Sebastian with his head out the window, I couldn’t help but marvel. Everything was so foreign! I had never seen anything like, well, anything I was seeing. It was all so new. It was all so different. How had some of it become a bit… pass the salt? I’ve brought a plethora of books to read. Unfortunately, other than a 30 page smattering on the Mirror of Yoga, the only thing I got a really good read of on this trip was the back of my own eyelids. If all…
Opted for practice instead of a 5k. Contentment. Tova love.
Opted for practice instead of a 5k. Contentment. Tova love.
Extra Curricular Stretching. #recreationalasana
Extra Curricular Stretching. #recreationalasana
Fell asleep in sivasana today. Yesterday I took a long proper rest, which I r…
Fell asleep in sivasana today. Yesterday I took a long proper rest, which I rarely do. How long do y’all take?
Can you do your practice, have a practice, without criticizing or condemning …
Can you do your practice, have a practice, without criticizing or condemning someone else’s? Haters gonna love this.