christening day!

Ok.  After being a reader of yoga blogs for the last year, I have finally decided to bite the bullet and write my own. Why? Well, mainly because I want to document my practice.  At the moment it feels like nothing is really happening or changing, but I know it HAS to be different today than how it was this time last year. I also realized that I had gotten a  lot of helpful insights into different aspects of the practice through reading others' blogs, and so I decided to return the favour. Join the community. 

I've nothing to report about my practice today as today is a moon day -bless it!- but I do intend to go into my practice room shortly to do my pranayama practice and work on pincha mayurasana - the bane of my life. Well, that and the LBH poses. Sigh. Maybe this time next year I will have new things to bitch about.  I hope so. Eka Pada has been a constant complaint for over  a year now.   There is a tiny bit of progress being made, but I still feel so claustrophobic in that and Dwi Pada.  Yoga nidrasana I actually like. 

But I know that I go easy on myself in practice. You see, I am a solo practitioner. There is no shala or teacher I can go to here. I go to workshops whenever they're on -about twice a  year- and visit my teacher once or twice a  year.  The rest of the time its just me and my mat.  And its been great.  A strong lesson in self-discipline. I just have to roll out of bed in the morning and head into the room next door to practice.  No commute or nasty weather to deal with.  It makes it really powerful any time I do practice with others.  I get to have breakfast and shower at home.  But I also miss out on the energy of a  group practice.  Of having that daily connection with  a teacher who will give me a gentle kick up the arse when I'm being lazy. But on the whole I'm really happy with my self-practice. Because that is what it has become.  A self-practice. Just me and my mat.  Every day the same.  Every day different.