Monday, Monday......

Hello! I had a pretty great class today, I gotta say! It was really busy in Woodbury for 9:30am on Monday morning. A couple new students too which is awesome! I always think of my first class in Chicago when I was like "who are these crazy people and how can they stay in this heat and breathe". My first class, when the guy in front of me went into Standing Bow Pulling Pose, sweat POURED off him onto his mat and I almost gagged!! Now when I drip and it sounds like a little rain storm, I just smile to myself and probably make the person behind me gag!! I also did NOT stay in the room the whole time at my first class! I truly, in my most overly dramatic way, thought I was going to DIE in there. I staggered out as the poor teacher said, "You should try to stay IN the room". I think I went back into the room at some point or that may be the way I like to remember things.

Then I went back the second day.

I would love to hear about how other people got through their first class!

So today, in my quest to disassociate myself from the heat and my tiredness, I started a mantra to repeat that was "I have never done this pose before". I think I was trying to convince myself to do the second set of each pose by pretending that I had never done the first set of the pose, instead of just laying there like a dead dog. It worked. I have used a number of mantras, some work better than others. One is "this is all I have". Another is "so I die the house will be paid off"......

I do every once in a while hit that treasured peaceful glowing feeling where I feel calm and able to do anything. If you promise not to laugh (and my friend Sherry didn't laugh she said she gets it too), I will tell you about how sometimes in Savasana I half close my eyes and fuzz everything out and just have this golden glow that has me feeling nothing but calm and peace. It might be THAT which keeps me coming back for more!