Shutting down
Damn that was a long, hard weekend. Paul's workshop was fantastic, if somewhat hard work. He jokingly said at the start of the Primary Series that we had 6.5 hours with him on Saturday and we'd be going through the series "millimetre, by millimetre", which of course he proceeded to do. It took nearly 2.5 hours to get to Navasana by which point people were beginning to flag alot. Sunday's Mysore, for me anyway, was much the same - just over 2 hours long though he did let me go 3 postures beyond where I normally stop and gave me heaps of stuff to work with in backbends. Paul also led us through the basic of Pranayama for about 2 hours on the saturday and an hour on the sunday. I've left my practice notes in the house so will post them up when I get a chance later on in the week. He didn't have as much time these sessions for Q&A so my notes are pretty short, but I'll post what I have.
I think I've been pushing things a bit much over the last couple of weeks and my body's finally taking over and starting to shut me down. Needless to say I've come down with the cold and I ache all over, though that's probably due to the workshop efforts. Tomorrow's moon day couldn't come at a better time.
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hello! I thought it was quite a good workshop too :) really enjoyed it, although my shoulders were MOANING all through 6am mysore today.. I think my favourite thing that clicked in my head was the self adjusting trikonasana - so simple, sooooooo effective.
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Paul's good at explaining things in words that make sense, without any fancy terms. He's a good sense of humour in him too!
Posted by: lil star | June 2, 2008 11:17 PM
Hey there! Nice posts as usual...btw Paul who?
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Dallaghan. See www.yogathailand.com (I believe). Paul's one of the few certified ashtangi teachers. Hope you're doing well!!
Posted by: Esther | June 6, 2008 3:31 AM