Practice 7

This week was Sivananda yoga and I know I wasn't up to peak performance. I was running off of 2 hours sleep, had not eaten yet and was probably dehydrated to boot so I ended up sick and sleeping as soon as I got home. I am now finding how "pop culture" yoga is due to celebrities and stick thin women doing it. I could not really do most of it since my chest is almost an E cup now and I can no longer do most things on my stomach. It is now not much more than a fad for skinny women with no chest.

Practice 6

Due to the fact my brother is working all week this week covering shifts, I decided to tag along with a friend to a place they practice at, which is surprisingly at someone's house. It was pretty close to my experiences outside the classroom with mats, incense and bells of some sort. The person teaching this time spoke a lot about healing your soul and bringing the body into alignment with your center. Mostly I just ended up getting hurt from my hips and rib cage hitting each other. I don't know exactly how I feel about it as a whole but at least I wasn't too sore after the fact!

Practice 5

For this week we did Ashtanga. I can say I am still very sore in my bad shoulder. Still, I feel our class has become a sort of community, though I still don't feel like I am much part of it. It might be due to my own frustrations at not really being able to do as much as I should. I don't know if it is my busted shoulder or my bad hip doing me in but I am terrified I am going to hurt myself and get a bad grade. I hope in the future I can gain more confidence and grow more as a learner.

Practice 4

This week we did Iyengar yoga which was actually not that bad. I mean...I didn't hurt myself which is a plus in my books. Was terrified of anything where my feet left the ground though. The practice itself could be considered a "ritual" in the sense of the movements of the body and the centering of one's self to get into those postures. It doesn't change much of my practice, except for maybe the sense of I really need to check my back out since my hips and ripcage kept hitting each other.