John (& Lucy) Scott Day 1

Really enjoyed this morning’s workshop!
I was in the 3rd group, starting at 9am (group 1 at 6:20 am, group 2 at 7:40).
We all hovered outside in the little waiting room–upstairs studio at Oasis Holistic. Really nice relaxing space with lots of shelf space & 3 gorgeous pineapples in a bowl–and waited. Me feeling a little [...]

Workshop starts tomorrow!!!

Meant to take it easy for a couple of days in anticipation of the John Scott workshop coming up, but instead have been rushing around.
No, not working–lunching out–current favourite cafe meal: cheesy tofu deck. Current favourite coffee: TCC blend (Yes, TCC is where we went) playing with friend’s new PS3–multicar racing games–I am a [...]

Wonderful Weekend

The weekend is here & it’s going to be wonderful… got myself a new Neil Gaiman, a new Sue Grafton, a New Yorker Mag & 3 pairs of yoga shorts–
Yoga shorts? I started out with ankle or mid-calf yoga pants, problem was stopping the ‘flow’ to roll them up for garba pindasana… (now that I [...]

‘Fess Up Friday

Writing: 5213 words this week–Yes! Hit my 5K target!
(plus edited one Eusoff chapter)
Yoga: got on the mat all 7 days (despite today’s mess up)
Discovered: CreateSpace, ThinkSimple, Daz animated figures, Botanic Gardens Cluny Gate carpark (3 black swans!) 4 bandit birds instead of the usual 2 in trees outside my window, straight leg jump throughs (got [...]

Practice… hmmm

Not a great practice today. Went down to YogaShala for 9 am mysore since I wasn’t feeling so great & wanted some ‘external’ discipline.
Except it wasn’t just me imagining I wasn’t feeling so great. Managed to lose control of my right arm when I was trying to figure out stuff & then my eyesight [...]

Great Practice!

Skipped morning practice today after late night out last night & went to YogaShala at noon for mysore with James F.
And it was great!!!
Okay, I’m not ‘great’ yet but as James says, the baseline keeps moving up so both the ‘highs’ & ‘lows’ get higher… (okay, it sounds more profound when he’s saying it…)
But [...]

Very Busy Today

But just blew 45 min replying to a troll on the Sayoni blog. Waste of time, I know, but…
I know–shouldn’t get so irritated with people.
Today I want to go buy fish for the cats, go take laundry (& see if I can find a couple of magazines) to Gina, write 1000 words into draft, read [...]

5 am practice?

Not quite, but I made it onto the mat at 5.30am… my attempt to emulate H Murakami’s discipline!
Observations: in the dark with the black out curtains drawn, I find it almost impossible–make that impossible impossible–to do Utthita Hasata Padangusthasana. Tomorrow I’m lighting a drishti candle!
It’s been a great weekend. Played around with an old stylus [...]

Cotton Mat?

(copied from WoYoPracMo blog)
Tried a cotton mat for this morning’s practice because several people swore to me it was ‘the thing’ that would bring my straight-leg jump throughs to life.
And I wanted to get my ‘kit’ together & functioning in time for July’s WoYoPracMo. (yes! WoYoPracMo is back!!)
The idea apparently is to get through opening [...]

‘Fess Up Friday

Not a very good week word count wise… 3149 words added to the novel, didn’t make my 5000 word goal.
But–saw a couple of shows I liked, had pretty consistent yoga practice & zazen.
I realise when switching from front to back in warrior (towards the end of standing sequence) I tend to break my breathing [...]