Self Practice

Had the opportunity to attend an ashtanga workshop an Asheville ashtanga teacher was putting on this week. Its a 6 day workshop and I only had a chance to go friday morning. Really good group of people though, from my first impression. Would of been fun to have a chance to spend more time there but I am wall to wall with school work these days.

Anyways, the teacher putting on the workshop invited me to come when/if I could to demonstrate how I did the vinyasas. I was super honored to be asked to do this and somewhat shocked, too. I guess I don't consider many points of my practice to be worthy of demoing to people wanting to learn as much about the Practice as possible so they can effectively teach. But, I HAVE been working hard on my vinyasas so it felt really good to get recognition. Well, I was somewhat nervous showing how I did the liftups, jumpbacks, throughs, etc. But, it went well, I think.

Now I'm super sore from trying so hard and repeatedly showing the vinyasa. Feels really good, I love the sore muscle feel. Lately I haven't had that because my practice has become sort of day in day out same ole' same ole'. Its good to break things up and now I have more motivation to go further in the vinyasas. I am thinking about working more ardently at lifting into handstand from navasana. Seems do-able now, actually, if still quite a few months (years?) of HARD practice.

That's all thats going on in my yoga world. Back to school work for me!

Peace,
Andy