Tuesday morning

Just woke up crabby and that sucks cuz I was sleeping alone. (insert drum trill here).

I should have gotten my ass going and made it to 9:30 class but I just looked at the schedule and there is a 7 pm so I am going to be a total weenie butt and go to that one. I will blame my "ennui" on the deep tissue massage I had yesterday which has left me feeling a little bruised, ok a LOT bruised. But it is always fun to impress the massage therapist with the size and strength of the knots in your muscles! The area between my shoulder blades is the catch all for tension. I don't know if that is the reason I can barely get my arms behind my ears in yoga poses, or if there is a physical reason too, the shape of my shoulder bones etc. I watched some fantastic videos on yoga postures and different types of bodies that I recommend for everyone. "Anatomy for yoga by Paul Grilley" is so well done that it keeps your attention and gives you examples of different bodies in positions so you can really understand what you should be seeking to achieve. There are not many of us who are going to end up as a slender, lean yogini after even 20 years of yoga. We should have a picture of ourselves that is actually obtainable in our minds. No matter what society says, ANY body that is healthy and toned, free of excessive alcohol and smoke, able to think new thoughts and not just rattle off the status quo, is the MOST beautiful thing in the world.

That said, if anyone has the 45 and older male version of that being, please send them ASAP!!

I am working on getting a friend of mine who was in a horrible accident the beginning of May to Bikram class. He is so physically and mentally strong and I hope if you see him there you will spread good cheer. I know how hard it is to get my reasonable healthy body to class and his feet, both feet, were shattered into pieces that two days of 8 hour surgeries put back together. Patrice at Bikram Woodbury has been great for advice since she had to do Bikram sitting in a chair for a good long while. My hope is to wheel Paul in and give him the energy of the room to begin his practice and maybe it will help his healing too!! I have done yoga with 90 year olds, a woman in San Francisco celebrated her 85th Birthday in class, there is a man who is paraplegic in Tempe, AZ, these people have a life force that is so impressive, i am actually getting teary thinking of it. There are so many people in the world who are constantly putting obstacles in their own way. They won't do this or try that because they don't want the world to see them. That is such utter bullshit and so they sit in their misery trying to suck us into it and are bewildered when we don't give in! (yeah, I feel a little passionate about this point, eh?) I would rahter live 10 years aas a peaceful person who tries everything once no matter how bad, fat, tired, sore, bruised, stressed, whatever, I feel, than live 100 years stuck in a rut.

On that note, I must get offline and finally sit down and write to a relative who has gotten herself in some drug trouble and landed in jail. Everyone is vulnerable but everyone is also able to rise above their troubles.

Namaste!