Letting Go, Letting Be in Everyday Ramblings

This is where I have been hanging out having lunch the last few days. They got the tree from a Christmas tree farm, and a couple of the students who are into “Acro Yoga” (or acrobatic yoga) did a partner move to get the ornament on top. The decorations are whimsical and cheerful and you can barely see it in the blur here but the major ornament is a plastic pelvis (normally used for instructional purposes) right in the middle.

Only a yoga studio would do that with such affection.

We still have ice. That is four days now. The side streets are ice rinks but the main roads are clear and navigable. About midday today it is supposed to warm up above freezing and stay there! We should start thawing overnight.

I am hoping I can get to the grocery tomorrow but I can manage until Tuesday when we will be back to heavy rain. I am also hoping I can teach tomorrow.

Kes hasn’t been able to get her car out since Wednesday afternoon. Most Honorable can get his out but can’t defrost because the fan is acting wonky. Now take those stories and multiply them by thousands upon thousands…the biggest concern most of the folks in the workshop have is getting kids home from college for the holiday. Travel adventure stories abound.

I talked to a woman yesterday who was about three blocks away from me during the Loma Prieta earthquake in San Francisco in 1989. We both thoroughly enjoyed sharing our stories of that time with each other.

This is by far the best yoga workshop I have ever taken.

It is totally geeky, I mean you really need to care about subtleties of hand position and all sorts of other structural stuff in relatively generic yoga poses. Many of the poses I don’t teach because they are not as accessible to my students and he uses a whole lot of props. Blankets and blocks and straps oh my. These are things that haven’t been available to me to use mostly in the rooms I teach in. But I am hoping that over time with the studio we can at least get blocks and straps.

So even though I will be tired when I get home tonight I will be happy.

The thaw is on its way and it was so great to get away from work for five days and I adore this instructor. (It turns out the woman I thought was traveling with him was just trying to make everybody think that. She sits right next to him like she knows him but I watched them interact yesterday morning and they do not know each other.)

He does this thing at the end of class. A very specific type of relaxation exercise that works on many different levels and he says usually you don’t feel the affects of it until afterwards…

Last night I had the best, sweetest and most hopeful dream that I have had in years!

That in and of itself, that one dream, was worth the modest price of the workshop and all the Uber rides right there.

Oh yeah.

Last updated December 18, 2016