My crooked yoga journey

How my path to yoga moves from crooked to not so crooked and back again

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Location: So. Cal

Mom of two teenagers: One of each style. wife of Billy Canary, yoga teacher, ex-corporate manager, artist, crafter, reader. And did I mention I talk alot?

Saturday, September 17, 2005

Have been dealing with daily headaches since about the 10th. Odd because they come at about the same time every day (late afternoon) and if I try to not take anything for it, they linger for days. They make me nauseaous. After the first 3 days of not taking anything and basically having an underlying headache for those 3 days, I've begun to take Advil at the first sign of one. Just 2 Advil.

For the last few days I've been falling asleep an hour or two after I take the Advil and have been waking up with the headache mostly gone. Not always but at least I'm not nauseaous.

I don't think they're migraines, no aura, just nausea. They might be sinus (because the weather is changing) but I'm not taking anything to help nasal drip so I just don't know. Maybe a flare? I don't know.

My seated meditation is going well. Thank goodness I do it in the morning, if it were in the afternoon I'm thinking that might be out the window.

I'm very thankful for the yogi who posted about Lupus in her blog. Oct is Lupus Awareness month and I don't think it gets the awareness that it should. Breast Cancer awareness gets mucho grande more. It deserves it yes, but it sure would be nice if our sensibilites were opened up to all the different ways we manifest illness so there is more openness to each persons path and leaving behind the judgements of others practices.

Everyone is out of the house so maybe I need to roll out the mat and get going!

Wednesday, September 14, 2005

What a good class tonight. Just Susan and Teresa. Sadly Teresa is moving and will probably go to the yoga studio thats closer to her new place. I think she'll like that yoga studio (I used to go there on a regular basis) and they guy who runs it is a really nice guy. I am sad to lose her, she said she'd probably stop by every once in a while. That would be fun if she did.

The room tonight was very cool and even tho we did a non-stop vinyasa class I didn't sweat much. I practiced along with them, because they're pretty well versed in the asanas, the structure of the class and all around in the groove.

Susan has some chronically tight shoulders. I'm going to work on shoulders next week I think.

Somewhere in the midst of class all of a sudden (even tho I wasn't warm) I got very bendy. It was a nice release. This summer has been a tight one for me so it was sweet to release without any fanfare.

I'm feeling particularly ahhhhh right now.