It’s fun, but exhausting. As expected, we attempted all kinds of impossible postures today, and it was really quite amusing (and somewhat alarming) to see what is actually possible. I partnered with Kim for the morning and we had a blast doing (or approximating) Mariachyasana and Locust and Supta Baddha Konasana.
It’s very playful, this yoga training. It reminds me a lot of being a kid out on a playground, doing crazy contortions and asking your friends, “Hey, watch. Can you do THIS??”
And they go, “Yeah, that’s pretty cool, but watch this!!”
And you go, “That’s DISGUSTING, dude! How did you get your arm to bend like that??”
And they go, “I dunno, it just…goes like that. Here. I’ll help you.” (and this, in yoga, is called an “assist.”)
And then you try to do it, with their help, and you end up dislocating your shoulder and your mother calls your friend’s mother and you’re not allowed to play with that friend anymore.
Except, here, in Yoga Teacher Training, most of our mothers don’t even know we’re here!
(bwahhahahaha!)
And then we have lunch and come back and put all the crazy postures together in a practice that has most of us slipping off our mat because of the sweat, and begging for mercy, or death, or our mothers to rescue us. (There were many moments when I was going, “Holy mother, is there no end to this??” under my Ujayii breath.)
And then suddenly, bam, the day is over and we all walk out into the glorious sunshine, and say, “See you tomorrow!”
Kim told me about this great Whole Foods nearby (relatively nearby) and I was going to wait until after rush hour to go, but I bonked on my bed, and just now got up, so I guess the playground got the best of me. Tomorrow morning I may head there, if I go to bed right now and get up early. Tomorrow we don’t start until 11:30, which is sweet!
Oh, and another sweet thing? I got into Emily’s March Madness Pool! And last I checked, I was in 2nd place. (She’s probably really sorry that she went to all that trouble.)
But hey, there’s a lot of b-ball left.
(But, Go Dukies!)
Inspiration Location 