happy Sunday

[supercheesegirl]

I just had a really terrific yoga practice. I felt so strong and centered--my body really wanted to be doing yoga. I did my strength-training circuit, AND I did my first-ever all-by-myself headstand. I did one a few weeks ago in Lucia's class, but that was with Lucia standing there to catch me if I fell on my head. Today it was just me, leaning against my front door. It really is all abs. I mean, I knew that, but experiencing it is different. I'm hoping if I work on headstand some more I might be able to work up to handstand in a few months. Whee. Probably a 50-55 minute practice altogether.

AND I finished the first draft of a really difficult essay this morning. And read some poetry. Now I'm going to work on sending out submissions and maybe downloading new yoga music. (I also watched two hours of HGTV today and ate several pieces of greasy restaurant cornbread, but small steps, right, and I clipped the coupons and did dishes at the commercials.) Yesterday I put away all the Halloween decorations and cleaned the apartment (including sweeping the dreaded floors). Overall I feel like I'm in a genuinely healthy place, location and body and mind, for the first time in weeks.

Comments

[allthefishies.livejournal.com]

<3 *HUG*

[lilacgrrl.livejournal.com]

weeeeeee sunday rejuvenation ;)

[digital-e.livejournal.com]

Yay! Especially for the headstand. I did a shoulder stand with help a couple weeks ago, but it didn't register with me until after class. I did yoga Saturday and Sunday and am feeling it. I really need to start doing it more than once a week again. I'm glad you're in a healthy place.

[supercheesegirl.livejournal.com]

I also need to start doing yoga more than once a week! Stupid work. I could get so much more done if I didn't have to spend so much at the office!

Shoulder stand was never an issue for me, oddly. Possibly because when I was a teenager, the only phone upstairs was in my mom's bedroom, which used to be an attic, so I would spend my considerable phone time laying on her bed with my feet on the sloped ceiling. So I guess I've been doing shoulder stand since I was 14! But the inversions that require getting my ass balanced in the air without help from my arms, that's trickier. Getting there!