Do I ever ache...a good ache though.
I feel all the organs in my body singing, or crying out for attention from the postures I performed last night.
Lets see...it's been probably half of a year since I have been doing any asana at a brisk pace, except for my month in Bangalore with Sharmila.
Last night I did half-primary, to navasana. I played along to the audio portion of David Swenson's primary serise video (tv off).
Oh my...
Well, I've gained perhaps 15-18 pounds since my return from India.
For a while I was wondering if I was going through some sort of shock-survival based binge. For one month I ate so little and saw people who were so poor and who had so little, that I had this tremendous, almost uncontrolable apetite. It's hard to say what I was going through with all that logieness and lethargy that struck me.
You know it's a lot harder to lift up and to jump back when you are so much heavier...go figure.
Time to resume better eating paterns, and a regular asana practice for sure. Tonight will see sun salutations and fundamental postures. Might even revisit fundamental postures twice to try to re-establish some confort in them.
In almost four years of sort-of-regular practice I've remained at a beginner's level. Now it feels like I'm experiencing the postures for the first time all over again. In an odd way I'm reliving the joy of discovering ashtanga. What bliss!
Tomorrow must remember to book with Karen, and Hilary for my first visits of 2005.