My thoughts on Daily Practice

What do you know it's already march.

Firstly I would like to say that I missss my YG! I miss doing yoga online with wonderful teachers and awesome sequence. Cant wait to get my internet at home.

Great update: I have started my daily ashtanga practice since 27 January. I guess Nike really tells it as it is: Just Do It! I have been mulling about starting a daily ashtanga practice but so many reasons and excuses cropped up; shoulder injury, repetition injuries, no progression, more injuries. I am just afraid of injuries.

But when work hauled me off to Turkmenistan where globalization has yet to hit, I found myself not having the Internet as a source of my yoga sessions. As horrifying and bad as it sounds, it forced me to replace my Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Sundays vinyasa sessions to ashtanga. Hence, daily practice.

It is crazy, and somewhat less of a big deal as my mind made it to be. It's just, after all, a yoga practice. I find that if I focus on the breathing the time flew by. But that doesn't mean it came easy. Every single morning at 510am I find myself wondering if I could simply finish the full primary. Sometimes I get discouraged halfway - what... only in Janu sirsasana? still a long way to go - but I forced my thoughts out of my head and just, do it, like a robot.

Physically, what has improved? You'll love my answer: Bhujapidasana!

I could now drop on my forehead and slip my feet through without 'walking' them on the floor... and lift myself up again easily! It is so smooth that I have forgotten how HARD it was for me to GET it. Just as I can't remember how it was for me to learn to drop my heels after Supta Konasana.

UHP used to be so good in Turkmenistan but back home I am struggling with the left standing side. I am thinking maybe it is the dark dim room (I practice with no lights on, only the hallway light) that affects my balance, but it is a good practice nevertheless.

Non Ashtanga related:

Wonderful backbends: can do eka pada raja kapotasana with my hands grasping my foot and my foot touching my head. My fingers now touch the floor when I do Wild Thing. Dwi Pada Viparita Dandasana is wonderful as always.

CAN FINALLY DO HEADSTAND. Unsupported.