I'm still resisting the mat during the week. It's so wierd to me that it sits in the car and I'm only taking it out when I need to teach.

I'm still sitting on a semi-regular basis, it's fallen to either less time or less frequency depending upon the day's activities. I prefer to meditate when nobody is home but summer doesn't allow me much time to have that space. I sit outside a lot tho.

Wed night class was good although it wasn't the mind stilling practice it often becomes. I had 2 new students in class so lots of the class was getting them thru the poses. I know thats one of the reasons I prefer students with knowledge of asanas because the flow of no-mind can be achieved in class. But there is a sweet flow when you have a new student who you can see sink right into savasana with ease.

Ah, a week in Del Mar and no yoga. Didn't get to any classes and was toooooo lazy to get the mat out of the car. A failure of physical exertion.

I sat each day, most days with inward focus, one or two days reflecting...hell, call it as it is, ruminating. Many external things circling and tying me into knots that could so easily be untied.

Managed to loosen some of the knots.

"...if I can change the frame, the picture always looks quite different." Quoted from Lama Surya Das blog.

Viewing the knots, viewing the frame I can see both images similar to the 3D picture books where you unfocus the eyes. Lose the unfocusness and there is the other image again.

Went to a beginner Iyengar class the other day. Good for me, raising my awareness in ways that a more difficult (physically) practice rarely touches on. Felt a touch of something sweet when the teacher told everyone to sit on 3 blankets so I did. Teacher knows me, knows my flexibility and mentioned outloud that I was a good student because I was following her instructions. Then she said, if you know you don't need the blankets (like Vivage here) you may get rid of them. :-) So I did.

A different reaction than years ago where I might have just done my thing even tho the teacher instructed something specific.

Have been invited to attend a 3 day workshop with my Bihar teacher. The course is: Pawanmuktasana. Sankalpa blessings.