Ouch, the Bandhas...

It's now Monday evening and I continue to recover from my weekend of training. My hips are screaming and I'm sore in places that I didn't know that I had! I've learned that having success in the asanas (postures, poses) is dependent on engaging the Bandhas and holding in the belly (by the way, the Bandhas are below that!) Well, picture this ~ there I was trying so desperately to get my body in a posture while trying to "keep the breath," AND engage the Bandhas??? Something had to let go. You guessed it ~ it was the Bandhas! Our homework is to practice engaging the Bandhas everyday for about 10 minutes. Speaking of homework, I have quite a bit to accomplish for next month ~ many pages of anatomy reading, the anatomy coloring book, find an inspirational story or quote, formulate a sequence of two standing postures including breath work and the first 16 Sutras. I'll have no problem doing all of it, I'll just have a problem REMEMBERING all of it! Better get to work...

The Yoga Sutras

I'm on my way to the Saturday all day training in about 1/2 hour. Last night was the lecture on The Yoga Sutras with Satyam. He's a very engaging speaker and the 2 hours flew by. My concern is the lack of retention this old brain of mine has! Holy cow! It's so hard to make sense of all of it. I am such a global thinker and learner so that when given details it's more difficult for me to paint the whole picture. I like seeing what the picture looks like first and then filling it in with all the rich details. No one else seems to be having this problem, or else they're hiding it well. I'm sure they don't know my secret. I 'hmmm' when everyone else does, I giggle when everyone else does, and I 'wow' when everyone else does. Harry, my dear husband (that's sarcastic!) is convinced I have a form of ADD. The basis for his conclusion is that although I appear to be so engaged and interested when he talks to me while making serious eye contact, when given a quiz later in the day on his discourse I have no idea what he is referring to! I call that something else, he calls it ADD!

Back to the Sutras ~ I think I'll have to commit to an hour of review every day. My new mantra ~ I can do it! I can do it! I can do it!

Namaste...

Sigh...

It's been really hard to practice yoga as much as I thought I would. I'm still not confident enough to do it on my own, although Sara suggested I practice every day, even if only for 10 minutes. It is my nature to have everything set up perfectly before I practice ~ the room, the candles, the mat set up, the right clothes, etc. I feel a bit like Ed Norton from The Honeymooners! Then after all the prep something comes up to distract me. It all has to do with settling the mind...............