heh, I find myself posting about my classes and not my practice. Well, maybe it is about my practice?

Tonight the YS class was 3. 2 regulars and one new woman. She's taken Christies classes and this was her first flow class. She was pretty in the groove. Which was nice.

Second class had the 13 yr old, again she was so poised. In the middle of my class a personal trainer came in the room w/ his client and used the mirrors in the room. He asked if I were the instructor and when I said yes, he realized I was holding a class. LOL, it wasn't a big deal, although I wondered if I was going to have to kick him out when it was time for Shavasana. Nope, they left right as I was about to start Shavasana.

Cell phones, especially your own vibrating is a pain in the butt. Good thing Heather couldn't really hear it. Sheesh.

Sitting meditation today was nice, not totally there but nice. Afterwards I took a nap. I was hot from cruising the city in a convertable Ford Torino.

The heat was a little distracting in the sitting, and I wasn't cooling down by sitting. So I gave in and took a nap.

The nap was really what I needed.

Later I did some forward bends and began playin w/ standing on my flip flops (that have a wedge heel 2 1/2 inches higher than the toe. Turned them backwards and use the heel part of the shoe to support my toes and effectively give me 2 1/2 inches more to reach to the floor. It was good, gave me a long stretch.

I love forward bends. I love playing the differences between back on the heels and onto the pads of the foot. There is a slight resistance and then a sweet give where you go deeper and then the middle is just right. My natural inclination is to set more on the pads of the foot rather than in the heels...so it's nice to move deeper into the heels and feel the resistance and the melting. I usually tell my students to explore their natural inclinations and then move the other way to feel the other edge.

That forward backwards push pull is something I've been exploring in doing forward bends and backbends. Overall, my natural inclination is forward bends. Sooooo, playing with backbends is an edge for me. I have plenty of bendiness in the spine, both horizontal and vertically. Good chest opening, good spine length but the stuckness is in the shoulders. Shoulders would rather hook my ears in UD but are ok and stay down in camel. Arms up are an issue, arms akimbo are not.

Am going to have someone look at the muscles to see whats up with them. Far too often (every time actually) that my arms are over my head for a minute they begin tingling and there is a lack of blood going to my arms/hands. So some majorly stuck prana there.

Gonna go to bed and veg.