After yesterday's debacle/disaster or whatever you want to call it, today was a small step to getting back on track. I managed to at least start the session with a better attitude, which always help. What likely helps more is a slightly more moderated room temperature. I looked it up, official Bikram approved temprature is 105F with 40% humidity. No idea what either of these really mean but that is what it is supposed to be. How often, and how much it varies I am not sure.
Anyways today was positive. An average session in the grand scheme of things but a tremendous success considering I had thoughts, not terribly serious, about calling the whole thing off 24 hours ago. Whenever these thoughts occur I am always reminded that the best thing to do is listen to the instructor - which usually means look straight ahead, breath slowly and calmly and all will be good.
Lesson of the day: In
Balancing Stick Pose lately I have had a hard time staying in the posture on either side. Something the instructor said today, well they likely say it everyday, caught my attention. And that was to be looking 4 feet out in front of me. I found that this helps me to get into the pose much easier which is important as its a relatively short pose (10 seconds or so). My only issue is that I now am over-rotating on my top half and having to touch down on the ground to remain balanced. However this is a huge step up from where I was in this pose a week ago. And the balancing series, unlike all the others really are the yardstick (right or more likely wrongly) that I measure the success of individual classes by.
So I am half way and that is worth celebrating for sure. I have been searching for a Blur video to post and that fits the mood of the day, but have not been able to turn up anything yet (Song 2 .. really). First heard in Italy at LIUC in my room in Castellanza nearly 10 years ago:) Gorillaz Feel Good Inc.
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