Moon day...isn't it great! A day of rest, to check in with the body to see what's working and what's not! Lately I'm in bits! About a month ago I was dropped on my head doing the assisted backbends at the end of the series....let me tell you how much fun that was!! Weeks of chiropractic and massage therapy and I still have pain! I had to drastically modify my practice just so I could be on the mat everyday. But I'm tough - once I got over the desire to kill the person who dropped me - I'm getting over it. So then last week I was practicing in a friend's class and I was working on drop overs. Something didn't feel right. In the third one, I got completely confused as to which way I was going (which can happen to me rightside up never mind upsidedown!) and I ended up crunching my shoulders.....OUCH! Ironically the shoulder I did the most damage to is also the side of the neck that seems to have been released! So once again my practice has to be modified to allow my shoulders time to heal. I can't bear weight on my left arm while backbending. It's getting better tho...last week after I had done it I couldn't reach back for my feet in bhekasana whereas this week I can. I can't reach my left foot in kapot but slowly slowly things are starting to open up. I was doing so well! I had a good 4 months of no injury when normally I am the most accident prone person you have ever met! So I guess I had this coming. It is making me more mindful of my practice and reminding me to honour the moon day and my moon days (which have arrived at the same time). Today was time to reflect and breathe which lately I'm finding really hard. My pitta is very high so my emotions are running wild! Anger is flaring and even I am amazed at it's strength! There are new teachers coming over in the next week to take over the Mysore program from me. At first I was ok with that...hey, I don't have to get up at 4am anymore! But now I'm not so ok with it...why am I being replaced? The students don't want me to stop teaching Mysore yet I'm being pushed aside to make room for the new and teach the evening classes. But this too shall pass. I will surrender to the Divine and she will show me the way. I'm sure it's the pitta...