Garden of Daisies

Teacher’s Leaving Tomorrow…

October 4th, 2005

My teacher’s are leaving for India tomorrow morning, and since I’m going to my parents’ tonight for my brother’s birthday, I won’t get to see them again before they go. I have to admit, I was surprised at how hard it was to say ‘goodbye’. I will miss them much more than I had realized. Since Paul and Rachelle are leaving so soon everyyyyone has been showing up religiously to practice. Today the room was packed and had a great energy with alot of extra heat to help mold into poses. That many people always makes for a great practice.

Rachelle’s “bunda kick” has really been helping me focus on my breath and flow between poses rather than thinking really hard about everything. At this stage though, I’m a long way from actually acheiving the kind of awareness I’m striving toward…it reminds me of skating practice, a year or so before worlds, when I could get little flashes of being in ‘the zone’ during a set, but was a long way away from being able to perform there consistantly.

Marichasana B and D caused me alot of stress today. I’d been binding in both consistantly for quite a while, but on the first side couldn’t even get into B today. This whole set has been very difficult for me with my knees, and (Rachelle tells me) has been inducing very big overall adjustments in my body. This must just be a side effect of these adjustments…hopefully I’ll be back in again soon.

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