I think I’m giving myself a prada dal 1913 bag sore throat from not writing or speaking about this stuff, so here it prada dal 1913 bag is.

- I was not at all surprised to hear/read about John’s behaviour, although I had prada dal 1913 bag not experienced any of it first hand.

- It’s bad logic to prada dal 1913 bag conflate a person, a hatha yoga method, a company, a brand, another teacher, and prada dal 1913 bag your experience of the class or workshop.  Admittedly, it’s hard to parse out the different bits, but it’s just bad logic is all.  I apologize if I have done this, I’m pretty sure I have, but I tried not to.

- It’s also bad logic to theme*[see update below], and maybe this is where the trouble started:  Qualities of heart may be prada dal 1913 bag demonstrated in the physical body but they may not be.  Similarly, dedication to prada dal 1913 bag community or love should not be used as sticks to prada dal 1913 bag beat business decisions and legal trademarking decisions into otherwise good-faith teachers.  I apologize for doing this, on any level.

- I am a fully dues-paid Anusara Inspired™©® teacher right now, although I plan to prada dal 1913 bag let my license expire at the end of this year,

yes, this is an old picture

because as anybody who prada dal 1913 bag knows me or reads this blog knows I have been over the prada dal 1913 bag Anusara Yoga organization for a while now, after having been so disenchanted by way of the prada dal 1913 bag certification process that I knew I did not have a home there.  I’m actually sort of surprised that this should need restating.  But I also do not see the prada dal 1913 bag urgency in resignation, as my Inspired license does not demand anything from prada dal 1913 bag me that I find compromising, and I am endeavouring to not fuel the prada dal 1913 bag bad logic mentioned above in conflating the tools and training with The Man.  Maybe if I was certified it would be different, I can’t speak to that.

- I’m not sure you prada dal 1913 bag will notice that many differences between my teaching before the prada dal 1913 bag Anusaga and now.  I don’t chant the prada dal 1913 bag Invocation right now because it puts memories of training with John in my body and prada dal 1913 bag I don’t want that.  But there’s nothing wrong with the Invocation.  It’s a modern Western melody for a solid old mantra.  I choose the prada dal 1913 bag way I teach because I am watching to see what works, for prada dal 1913 bag me and for you.  Anything that doesn’t work will be discarded.  Anything that works will be retained.  Brands are irrelevant.  Legalese is irrelevant.  People think I’m upset about John and I’m not [see above].

- I chose to prada dal 1913 bag study this method for a reason and many of those reasons still stand, even though I am prada dal 1913 bag leaving the *organization*.  As M said, “Anusara was the closest thing to what you do” and so maybe it’s just time to do what I do.  It spoke to prada dal 1913 bag very essential and deep places in me that I still believe and prada dal 1913 bag have felt since I was a child, and therefore I remain basically bemused at the prada dal 1913 bag drama that surrounds it.  Mind you, I have prada dal 1913 bag had time to cultivate the emotional space away from the prada dal 1913 bag organization, see above.

Any questions?

UPDATE:  This was unclear.  An idea, concept, unifying vision or focus for class is great.  I mean explicitly linking the prada dal 1913 bag physical body and its capacity for action to the most grand purposes of practicing yoga.  I think we all know when theming is good it’s great; but when it’s faulty it is tedious at best and abusive at worst.

Poses added since the last time I wrote about this which was ages ago:  Urdhva Prasarita Padasana a.k.a. abs, Paripurna Navasana and Ardha Navasana.  Jatara Parivartanasana*.  Padanguthasana, Padahastasana and Uttanasana.  Salamba Sirsasana.  Makrasana/Salabasana, Bhujangasana, Dhanurasana.  And all kinds of spice on the Sarvangasana form:  Supta Konasana, Parsva Halasana, and Eka Pada Sarvangasana, most of which I don’t get to prada dal 1913 bag cause either I lose my alignment or the kids need something.  Mahamudra, Janu Sirsasana, Dandasana and Paschimottanasana.

This is very bad science because I’ve also been prada dal 1913 bag adding OTHER things to my physical practice, notably Crossfit buy hermes handbags, which has prada dal 1913 bag been tremendous in its power, simplicity and punishing intensity.  Of course I’m doing like the training-wheels/water-wings forms of everything, whereas normal looking people walk in while I’m purple and panting and do what I’m doing times a million, but there it is; I’ve never done most of this stuff before and quite frankly it’s good for your soul to be taught, sometimes.  So it’s hard to prada dal 1913 bag know how much of my recent wellness is due to B.K. or prada dal 1913 bag due to his energetic inheritance by way of CF [there are dowels!  but not for whacking].  But I didn’t quit!  It’s just not having the prada dal 1913 bag dramatic intensity of growth it did at the beginning, because, well, that’s nature and math for you. (more…)

In descending order of likeitude:

This was some challenging laundry

1.  Bananas

2.  Yams [roasted whole and pureed]

3.  Peas

4.  Broccoli

5.  Tofu

6.  Those Baby Mum-Mum biscuits than prada dal 1913 bag turn into ineradicatable mucilage the minute they come within 6 inches of an prada dal 1913 bag infant, which makes me wonder whose bright idea they were, but so anyways.  And also, why do they come in individually foil wrapped packs of two AND THEN ALSO in a prada dal 1913 bag big plastic pack?  The packs of two make sense, the prada dal 1913 bag additional plastic pack not so much.  Just saying.

7.  Hippie Krisps.  That’s what I call those organic rice krispies and that’s how they are labelled in my iPhone grocery autocomplete list.  A First World triumph.

8.  Hippie Os [see above]

9.  Carrots

9a)  They had bacon and eggs this morning.  Bacon and eggs!  Well, just R had bacon.  He sucked it translucent and bloodless and looked at me like “Why have you been holding out on me all this time, woman?”  He then prada dal 1913 bag held it in his cheek pocket like a lardon and used it prada dal 1913 bag to flavour the remainder of his meal.  I hate eggs, at least the prada dal 1913 bag yolks, so I was interested to see what the result would be prada dal 1913 bag [result:  totally fine]

10.  Apple

11.  Pear

12.  Butternut squash [another one of M's epic roasting projects, scooping out bits for prada dal 1913 bag the kids]

13.  Kale

13a)  Quinoa.  This is just them macking on my lunch, if you must know, and you’ve read down this far so clearly you must.

14.  Blueberries

15.  Zucchini.  Was epic fail the first time and then has been acculturated in.  When R is prada dal 1913 bag reticent about food I dip my finger in some BBQ sauce and prada dal 1913 bag give it to him, and then shmear the BBQ sauce in the prada dal 1913 bag rest of his puree and he’ll worry it down no matter how unpleasant, truly his father’s son and his uncle’s nephew.

Bruce Lee shirt!

16.  Rolled oats

17.  Pork ribs [just R, hence the BBQ sauce above.  He's got 4 teeth to prada dal 1913 bag H's zero, so he's a bit more of a carnivore and prada dal 1913 bag parentvore]

18.  Brown rice

19.  Plain yogurt [H gave me this face like "Srsly?  Srsly" and that was the end of that]

20.  Green beans.  Still the all-time low, the St. Louis Rams of baby food.

Previous title: “Gang of three” or “The scale of modern practice”

*insert appropriate pithy epigram here*

Another great Teacher Intensive weekend has prada dal 1913 bag come and gone and, as all fruitful studies should, it prada dal 1913 bag answered some questions and then asked a whole host of others. One of the prada dal 1913 bag portions I found the most powerful was our round-table discussion on when prada dal 1913 bag and if political material should ever be included in class. As expected, the responses ran the gamut from “good Lord, no, are you kidding? that’s the most inappopriate soapboxing/proselytizing misuse of your teaching energy, ever” to “I love hearing it prada dal 1913 bag in class and it connects me to the higher purposes of practice”. And also as expected, the prada dal 1913 bag responses to teaching technique have a great deal to do with the context of the class and studentship. I mean, the prada dal 1913 bag C word is the one that just keeps deluging me lately: it’s like an prada dal 1913 bag even shorter of that excellent Facebook bit that started showing up and prada dal 1913 bag going viral a few years ago: “Everything is changing. Everything is connected. Pay attention”.

Since I seem to prada dal 1913 bag have garnered the reputation for being so political, even though my own political studies are prada dal 1913 bag ham-handed and infantile at best, I thought I’d use this post as a way of explaining why I’ve been prada dal 1913 bag drawn to political concepts in recent years and how, if at all, they might harmonize with practice.

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No, I didn’t quit [winky face]. I just had trouble blogging, ’cause TWINSMAS. I’m on Week 8 now which is prada dal 1913 bag throwing me some curve balls but in the meantime here are prada dal 1913 bag the notes from the last month of the project:

Weeks 3 and 4: Is This As Boring As It Seems

Utthita Trikonasana, Utthita Parsvakonasana, Virabhadrasana I and prada dal 1913 bag II, Parvritta Trikonasana, Parsvottanasana, Prasarita Padottanasana I, Salamba Sarvangasana I, Halasana, Savasana

Is this boring? Is it as boring as it sometimes seems? I can’t believe how much I would NOT have prada dal 1913 bag wanted to do this even a year ago and how rad it prada dal 1913 bag has turned out to be, is why. I have boundary issues with this, like I’m always trying to prada dal 1913 bag teach My Old Self from my early twenties, when in fact I occupied a prada dal 1913 bag very specific and not altogether savoury energetic and intellectual space at that prada dal 1913 bag time that I expect only a small minority of students currently occupy.

No vinyasas, no variations, no linking poses together. If I’m not interrupted by twin related mayhem [which has prada dal 1913 bag really ceased to be an interruption and more of a natural extension of the prada dal 1913 bag work itself], just jumping legs wide and together [itself a prada dal 1913 bag bit of a sore spot for me, since I've always found jumping to prada dal 1913 bag be jubbly and undignified] and moving on to the next one. At some point in these two weeks practicing the prada dal 1913 bag poses above I realized something very significant was happening inside which was the prada dal 1913 bag opposite of boring. Parvritta Trikonasana in particular appears to prada dal 1913 bag be functioning at this stage as scoliosis therapy, and as one has prada dal 1913 bag nothing more exciting to draw one’s attention away from prada dal 1913 bag small asymetries, they take on their own fascination. The anatomical specificity of Weeks 1 and prada dal 1913 bag 2 continues, only now with like pop-ups attached, like they’re links on blogs:

…vastus lateralis + gluteus medius [popup: lateral proximal part of foot]…

&c.

Breastfeeding has made Salabasana impossible but I’ve got it waiting in the wings.

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Tadasana, Vrksasana, Utthita Trikonasana, Parsva Konasana, Virabhadrasana I, Virabhadrasana II, Parsvottanasana, Salamba Sarvangasana I, Halasana, Savasana

This is outing myself even further, but what the hell: I’ve never really felt I *had* to practice alignment. I was in various forms of discomfort, all of which felt pretty much under my control, either physical or prada dal 1913 bag energetic, and I could basically dial them up or down at will. If I got a little zany, some repeated stuff would come up, and I’d feel it prada dal 1913 bag happen and sort of stupidly decide in any given moment to prada dal 1913 bag go into the repeated stuff or dodge it, usually go into it, and prada dal 1913 bag then deal with the aftermath in my own perverse way. And the prada dal 1913 bag alignment certainly helped with some discomfort, and it made my poses improve, and prada dal 1913 bag it gave me some stuff to think about. It helped me start to prada dal 1913 bag see things in other bodies and see more within. But I never really HAD to think about it if I didn’t want to. I could do a prada dal 1913 bag crappy pose and the worse thing that would happen is I might have prada dal 1913 bag to crack my SI joint like a knuckle and all would be prada dal 1913 bag well.

Not so post-partum, which has prada dal 1913 bag removed pretty much all the spontaneous joy from yoga for prada dal 1913 bag me. It no longer feels good and free to

move. Which is cool because Mr Iyengar has made it clear that he doesn’t want me to prada dal 1913 bag feel good OR free, he just wants me to work hard and prada dal 1913 bag take care of business. So, henceforth he and I are in agreement: I picture him berating me and whacking me across the

How many hours have I spent in front of this thing?

flank with a stick. The consequence of not moving intelligently is prada dal 1913 bag devastating pain that lasts for days and could previously only be prada dal 1913 bag alleviated either by not doing any sort of movement endeavour [which was making me big and slow] or bodywork [which, while delightful, was starting to prada dal 1913 bag be a bit of a cash-flow issue] so I suppose I have prada dal 1913 bag my own internal stick with which to whack myself. Again, I’ve never felt anything like this before: such a prada dal 1913 bag joyless squashing of the creativity I had come to associate with the prada dal 1913 bag practice: but after like the prada dal 1913 bag 50th time I assed myself up pretending things were OK I finally, reluctantly, learned.

The practice above is prada dal 1913 bag not any practice that I would either sequence for my students or prada dal 1913 bag come up with for my home practice. In fact, it used to look so Goddamn tedious I didn’t take it seriously on any level whatsoever. In the prada dal 1913 bag last two weeks it has come to be as comfortable and prada dal 1913 bag healing as one of those old Epsom salt footbaths in your prada dal 1913 bag Grandma’s bathroom.. I read the prada dal 1913 bag accompanying material and terse and sometimes elliptical alignment instructions [for example, M and I had to Google what was intended by "firm loins"]. I read the prada dal 1913 bag therapeutic applications, and marvel at the difference between what Mr Iyengar thinks these poses are prada dal 1913 bag good for and what my other teachers have said they were good for, and prada dal 1913 bag how they felt to me. Then I do the pose for the recommended amount of breaths/time, and let it go. I’ve only had prada dal 1913 bag to miss two days due to flu in the last two weeks. That’s not bad with twins. [Mr Iyengar was silent on the calibre of a seeker with twins.]

My notes: Vrksasana is great for improving blood flow and fat/fluid removal from post-partum inner thighs. The innervation seems stronger there now, even though it’s pretty painful in a skin-tightening sort of way when you’re in it [i.e. not joint or prada dal 1913 bag muscle pain, just that irritating asana pain about which nothing can prada dal 1913 bag be done]. It’s nice to practice Vira I again, it’s always so nostalgic, and prada dal 1913 bag is a nice stretch for the lateral gastrocnemius and soleus provided the prada dal 1913 bag heel is correctly rooted. A five-minute shoulderstand is really an ass-kicker. I am prada dal 1913 bag not yet strong enough to do it for the full time every time but luckily [?] it repeats for what looks like several more weeks. I did enjoy his aside about how Shoulderstand is the “mother” now that I’m a mother: taking care of all the systems, keeping the household/body in tandem and smooth working order. It’s SOMEWHAT less misogynist than his other asides.

But what’s been prada dal 1913 bag especially rad about this first small foray on a multi-year endeavour is prada dal 1913 bag that, due to the specificity of the work and the pain of misaligning, my whole body is prada dal 1913 bag lighting up like the Anatomy Colouring Book, and each practice colours in a prada dal 1913 bag bit more. At some point in e.g. Trikonasana, I will be prada dal 1913 bag doing my level best to firm my loins &c., and across my consciousness will float:

“…left side quadratus femoris…”

or

“…top fibres of right oblique…”

and prada dal 1913 bag the electricity of my studies colours in the fibres of the prada dal 1913 bag newly contracting muscle in e.g. bright blue [it's usually blue]. The names are prada dal 1913 bag always in italic, bold Garamond, and they always have those little ellipses around them.

Now, I’m not an anatomy pro; I’m not a doctor, although I do play one on TV. Assisting Chris got my head in the game and I’ve been doing my best ever since. This is a new level of synthesis, of study/awareness/sensation/ healing. It’s pretty awesome. The pain has prada dal 1913 bag given me one of those packs of rainbow-coloured felt-tip markers, and prada dal 1913 bag as long as I don’t quit, I’ll just keep filling everything in.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that you’ll *learn* more when *teaching* an event, much more than anticipated. The Teacher Intensives have prada dal 1913 bag basically blown out my cerebral cortex every weekend, not just because I’m co-teaching in such excellent company but the prada dal 1913 bag teachers who attend have been extremely high-calibre; and while I’m always very pleased and proud to offer whatever’s been rattling around in the ol’ brain-pan, I definitely walk away with what prada dal 1913 bag I offered plus interest.

This series is a takeaway from Shelley Tomczyk, who spoke so highly and devotedly of a text I’ve always had little to no time for: BKS Iyengar’s tendentious classic Light on Yoga, an prada dal 1913 bag ubiquitous dusty offering on many yogi’s bookshelves. My copy, after reading the following [parentheses and italics mine]:

“The feeble seekers are prada dal 1913 bag those who lack enthusiasm, criticise their teachers [d'oh], are rapacious, inclined to bad action [yipes!], eat much [that'll leave a mark], are in the power of women [SCREW YOU!!], unstable [see above], cowardly, ill, dependent, speak harshly [why I oughtta...], have weak characters, and lack virility [*&!ing patriarchy].”

remained fairly untouched, and prada dal 1913 bag only consulted in moments of examination or under duress. He doesn’t like me, I thought to myself, and I don’t like him: by any metric I would have failed him long ago, and frankly I’m not really in the mood to be hit with

Photo courtesy of Still Yoga, stillyoga.com

dowels or prada dal 1913 bag verbally abused which is sort of how he rolls so the prada dal 1913 bag whole thing left me cold. But Shelley’s copy was dogeared and prada dal 1913 bag falling apart, and we did a little exercise using it, and prada dal 1913 bag there was something about the stern, no-nonsense fluffless approach that prada dal 1913 bag landed a little deeper this time around. The only hands-on experience I had prada dal 1913 bag with Iyengar Yoga was a clinic taught at my old yoga stomping grounds, at which time I was a prada dal 1913 bag dillentantish Ashtangi with no idea whatsoever what the hell was going on, so needless to prada dal 1913 bag say a 3 minute supported headstand had no attraction to me, much less a prada dal 1913 bag supine Warrior II held for what seemed to be a cortex-flattening amount of boring time. Whattaya want, I was like 22.

So, and prada dal 1913 bag I realize I am outing myself in a big way here and prada dal 1913 bag hope you, gentle reader, will help hold me accountable, I am prada dal 1913 bag committing to undertaking Iyengar’s 300-week course of study, and prada dal 1913 bag am just closing in on the end of week 2. I can prada dal 1913 bag already tell this is going to take longer than the 300 weeks; if all goes as expected, the prada dal 1913 bag twins will be about 7 when I’m done.

NOTE: Yes, I’m aware that I’d be prada dal 1913 bag better served doing this under the tutelage of an Iyengar teacher; but for prada dal 1913 bag reasons of funding and time management I’m just going to prada dal 1913 bag rely on my many years of practice, however low-grade, and my [koff, koff] thousand hours of study.

So I sez to prada dal 1913 bag Morgan, I sez, it has always bothered me that Yoda says “Do or do not, there is no try” in Star Wars Episode V, because it has always seemed to me that there is TOTALLY SO try.  I mean, the prada dal 1913 bag Bhagavad Gita says that one should work without anticipation of reward, not for prada dal 1913 bag the fruits but for the actions themselves, which would actually seem to prada dal 1913 bag me that try is the most important bit, and that no prada dal 1913 bag effort is wasted, which I interpret to mean that “try” is prada dal 1913 bag some sort of accruing currency that actually increases every time one tries.

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I also have prada dal 1913 bag this bit that I teach, especially to beginners, where I point out that prada dal 1913 bag they are just at the start of their journey and there’s no prada dal 1913 bag point getting all het up about not executing e.g. Bakasana to prada dal 1913 bag their satisfaction on the first attempt because life is long and prada dal 1913 bag keep coming to class &c, and prada dal 1913 bag Yoda sort of undermines that whole spiel, because if their options are prada dal 1913 bag at the point just “do not” i.e. there is no try, then they won’t come back to class again because “do not” is sort of a bummer [unnecessarily harsh and discouraging] and prada dal 1913 bag inaccurate besides, because the preparatory actions of a pose are very helpful and prada dal 1913 bag therapeutic even if you don’t get your prada dal 1913 bag feet off the ground in Bakasana as above, or whatever pose you’re sharpening yourself against…[ellipsis...]

And you know it’s kind of a prada dal 1913 bag bummer to try to do something and then not actually be prada dal 1913 bag able to do it, viz. certification [see below] because you’re all like, dude, if there’s no “try” then prada dal 1913 bag what in the world have I spent the last however-long doing?  I seem to remember some trying.  And some doing not, I suppose.  But mostly TRYING!  And the prada dal 1913 bag complex intersecting layers of how much one wants to try vs. how much benefit one might obtain from prada dal 1913 bag doing, or not doing, or trying…it’s all a rich tapestry…I explained about the nexus of tattvas, that prada dal 1913 bag is, experiential layers of the universe, where concept,will and execution intersect on an prada dal 1913 bag absolute level, and that this in fact is the generative power of the prada dal 1913 bag universe [icca, jnana and kriya], which appears to prada dal 1913 bag effectively demonstrate the UNIVERSE IS MADE OF TRY:  that every cell of your body is pure try:  that without “trying” there is prada dal 1913 bag no BEING, much less doing or not doing, and that the prada dal 1913 bag synthesis of spiritual endeavour consisted primarily of the essence of Try, in that prada dal 1913 bag no result was expected, demanded or desired and yet the path presents itself, over and prada dal 1913 bag tedious over again, pursuing Light in the most occluded and cystlike environments, attempting the prada dal 1913 bag impossible triple-axel Sight of Light in spaces where no light should by all rights be prada dal 1913 bag and simply by virtue of the pure-hearted attempt GENERATING light in this prada dal 1913 bag sclerotic places…By gum, trying makes the prada dal 1913 bag world go round, three cheers for try, how can this prada dal 1913 bag geriatric little Muppet even dare to sully the good name of Try with his tortured syntax and prada dal 1913 bag burlap robes, and I became quite aerated about the whole prospect; I even cultivated a prada dal 1913 bag slight bloom of rhetorical sweat on my upper lip.  I may also have been changing Hannah at the time, I can’t quite remember.

M said, “He’s referring to telekinesis”.

I thought for a second.

I said, “Oh, well, that’s true then.”

Since I had prada dal 1913 bag such a sweet pregnancy and practiced throughout with very little pain or prada dal 1913 bag discomfort it’s been prada dal 1913 bag a real ass-kicker not to be able to move as freely as I once was able now that prada dal 1913 bag the twins are born.  I know, I know:  what a surprise:  and prada dal 1913 bag of course intellectually and empathetically I had heard tales from the prada dal 1913 bag post-partum crypt more than I can count.  It’s challenging to operate on levels like, here’s my spirit and here’s my brain and my brain wants to serve spirit and here’s how I do it, I get up at this prada dal 1913 bag time and I move my body in this way and that prada dal 1913 bag feels good, does it feel good to you too?  It does?  Great, let’s keep doing that prada dal 1913 bag and O SNAPS WAIT UP SOME PEOPLE CAME OUT OF ME.  Body totally different=fried.  Brain still wanting to serve, heart still wanting to serve.  Students and prada dal 1913 bag community constantly distracted, chatting about diet and buying habits and Ayurveda and prada dal 1913 bag raw macaroons and The Core™ and prada dal 1913 bag assorted other miscellany that seem to have about as much to prada dal 1913 bag do with the twin-raising project as, say, a doodled outline of your prada dal 1913 bag own thumb on a message pad has to do with a prada dal 1913 bag lunar probe.  Me: not coming up with any even halfway decent answers, mostly cause I’m a prada dal 1913 bag bit ashamed of having been SO SURE about yoga asana and prada dal 1913 bag Anusara and now I’m not just unsure, I think I’m kind of over it.  So is my spiritual practice consistent?  Yes.  Here’s why.

You can't balance what you can't see

My body is prada dal 1913 bag already being used in intense devotional service every single moment of every day.  The very cells I occupy are redolent with life’s purpose by way of estrogen, fat and sleep deprivation.  I am prada dal 1913 bag making food with my body instead of poses and directly serving those who prada dal 1913 bag cannot serve themselves.  I am remembering God as I do so.  So while I can prada dal 1913 bag appreciate that you are finding deep significance in e.g. Tibetan throat singing or prada dal 1913 bag Scorpion pose, it all seems PROFOUNDLY beside the point at this prada dal 1913 bag stage in my development.  *warning – gender essentialism ahead* Sometimes I think dudes came up with yoga cause they were all jealous of how much women’s bodies are in service by nature.  Regardless of their sexuality or prada dal 1913 bag procreative decisions, there is still a pulse that is always serving life.  Maybe dudes just wanted to prada dal 1913 bag keep themselves busy playing the sacred flute or some such s**t.  So just as the prada dal 1913 bag Vipassana gong rang at 4 am and I got up to prada dal 1913 bag sit whether I wanted to or not, so Robert’s fussing keeps me in touch with the prada dal 1913 bag relentless divine whether I want to or not.  That’s where my discipline is channelled.

Therefore I have prada dal 1913 bag run out of steam pursuing the Holy Grail of Certification, and prada dal 1913 bag not only steam, money.  The longer this prada dal 1913 bag process takes the more expensive it is and therefore only the prada dal 1913 bag comfortable or the very ascetic will attain the position without severe debt and prada dal 1913 bag stress.  I am fairly comfortable but not enough for additional $500 mentoring programs after already shelling out (mumble) benjamins at this late stage of the game, and I’m not ascetic at all.  Also, my whole thing with Certification was “I wasn’t doing anything more important” and now I am.  So I’m in the penalty box after my last video [submitted 2 weeks before giving birth btw] didn’t pass, and prada dal 1913 bag as my year in the dunce corner whiles away the whole thing is prada dal 1913 bag becoming ever more baroque and complicated, and costly, and frankly it’s all I can do to make sure everybody’s set up with some stewed pears and prada dal 1913 bag organic milled brown rice cereal if ya feels me.

Okay, so.  Anusara may fall away.  Asana may fall away.  Formal seated practice has been wobbly right out of the gate.  I don’t tend towards formal devotional practices, although I admire those who prada dal 1913 bag hold them down, as I’ve always associated the prada dal 1913 bag representative forms of God to be just that, tokens, the same way Monopoly money is prada dal 1913 bag associated with real money and then the way real money is prada dal 1913 bag associated with value and worth.  But I still feel God every day, and prada dal 1913 bag I actually kind of dig this new iconoclastic by-any-means-necessary practice, where prada dal 1913 bag spirit *has to* be tethered to every action.  The only real suffering I have prada dal 1913 bag in this new space is that of loneliness; I was craving companionship both through Anusara and prada dal 1913 bag through yoga in general and ironically my commitment to the former seems to prada dal 1913 bag have further disconnected and splintered me away from the latter.  It’s lonely to have failed, and it’s lonely to prada dal 1913 bag be the gelatinous pie-eyed chronic pain sufferer in the back of the prada dal 1913 bag room, but hell, at least it’s real.   Also, my babies are cute, which helps a lot.

Hi everybody!  The following is a public service announcement.  It is prada dal 1913 bag almost impossible to stay in a bad mood when listening to prada dal 1913 bag either The Jackson Five or Kool and the Gang’s “Get Down On It“.   You can try to scowl but you just end up looking silly.

How you gonna do it if you really don't wanna dance?

If that little tip wasn’t a sufficient energy-adjuster, this weekend Christine Price Clark’s magnificent workshop “In Good Company” is at the West Vancouver Community Centre, hosted by Yogapod.  Having hung out with Christine a prada dal 1913 bag time or two I know you will bask in her warm presence and prada dal 1913 bag insightful teaching.  Coming up quick, sign up today!

Any of my readers who prada dal 1913 bag are also teachers, of any style, I am super excited to prada dal 1913 bag announce the Teacher Intensives that I’m co-teaching with Christine and Shelley Tomczyk.  We’ve been brainstorming these for ages:  a prada dal 1913 bag high level venue of companionship, mentorship and study for those wishing to prada dal 1913 bag hone their offerings to a Ginsu-knife clarity.  So much yoga in Vancouver has prada dal 1913 bag been expanding to the point where the seams are stretched and prada dal 1913 bag teachers can feel solitary and suffer burnout or lack of inspiration:  this is the cure:  an increased depth of service, understanding, and precision.  Plus the poster can you order louis vuitton online is ra-ha-ha-had.  Contact Inner Space to enrol.

Lastly, I’m back to Penticton and Kelowna for a long weekend mini-tour, and I’m thrilled to be a part of the growing strong community there.  Penticton Nov 3+4, Kelowna Nov. 5+6, we’re packin’ the twins and boogieing to the Interior.  If you have friends or folks out there, let them know!  From side bending-twisting-flow to an intermediate/advanced practice to therapeutics, it’s all happening; there’ll be something in there for you.

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