How do people do this?
So, despite all the sceptics' predictions to the contrary (okay, mostly just the Gay Husband, but he knows me pretty damn well), I managed to get out of bed a few minutes before 6 this morning. Got all my stuff together (so much stuff, it's ridiculous: gym bag with towel, shampoo etc., mat bag and school bag so that I could go straight to school after practice is necessary)and drove down to the gym. Got changed and was in the "yoga room" by 6:25-ish. I think I forgot to mention yesterday that the yoga room has a gigantic glass wall that lets the entire gym see in...oh well...not a big deal..if I can practise with Sharath watching me, I can practise with women lifting weights watching me too!
I started out really stiff through my hamstrings (no big shock seeing as (a) I'd just gotten out of bed (b) I haven't practised in a week (c) I did this "aerobic pilates" dvd the other day and I'm all stiff through my hamstrings and inner-thighs now as a result), but things got better as I moved through my sun sals. I was sweating a little bit by the time I started standing series, which was a nice surprise, because being a gym environment, I was worried that the room might be cold. Otherwise my practice progressed pretty normally...nothing to report really. Although, my mindframe is a lot less negative now that I know I have a place where I can practise regularly and all that I've lost will come with time and practice.
The only disturbance I had was when a personal trainer brought her client (victim??) into the room to do lunges and squats and various other gym-like activities that make the thought, "Thank God for yoga" play over and over again in my head. I was just there in the middle of the room doing my janu sirsanas and this poor woman was lunging around the room and doing sit-ups with one of those stability balls.
Moved through seated postures and the closing series...I think my breath was probably going at a pretty fair clip, because I finished in about an hour and twenty minutes...although that was excluding savasana.
For the first time in my practice-history I didn't do a savasana. I know, bad lady...crazy nervous system, blah, blah, blah, but that room is no place for a savasana, with it's bright lights, and people looking in and the fact that I could hear "We Are the Champions" playing in the room next to me...So I figured I'd go downstairs and do something really geeky that only a yogi would think was normal: take one of the private changerooms (which are quite large and spotlessly clean) and roll out my mat in there and take savasana for a few minutes...no such luck..there were a bunch of people milling around the locker rooms and I thought I'd look really odd if I went in a change room and didn't come out for awhile. So, I have to figure out a solution to that problem, but other than that I'm proud of myself for going.
Went to school, had a meeting with a group with whom I'm doing a presentation next week, came home, ate some lunch and promptly fell asleep on the couch (at 2:30 p.m.). I'm exhausted. How do people do this and then go on to a full 9-5 day at work, plus a household to look after..and kids...how? I admire each and every one of you. I hope that, in my case, it will be a case of conditioning my body to getting used to getting up so early and still having a full day after practice.
I'm going to this class get-together tonight. I really don't want to go, because I'm so tired, but I have to, because I promised to bring Sex and the City dvds as well as fresh spring rolls with peanut sauce.
There's a thunderstorm going on outside and I have visions of naps dancing though my head....
Off to make the spring rolls.
On my iPod: Sitting, Waiting, Wishing --Jack Johnson, Sad Nights --Blue Rodeo, There is No Such Thing As Love --The Dears