It’s Thursday Evening… Tomorrow is 10 more MTX pills and Saturday morning is Vern’s No Frills 5k. Tonight is… time to think.
I showed up early at Yoga this morning… not WAY early, but early enough to have a chat with my favorite Yoga instructor… She noticed that I have been making adaptations to the poses frequently… keeping weight and pressure off of my wrists and hands. Not always, but often enough that she notices.
She told me to honor my body and honor my practice. It is less about doing it “right” than connecting with myself and doing it. Approaching my mat with intention and doing what I do with a Yoga purpose. She also taught me some poses that are hand specific… some she gave a name to (like spider) some she just showed me. It is great.
Today during class we spent most of the time connecting with our breath… connecting poses with breaths… even adding some new poses, like dolphin and tree and eagle. We also paid respect to the New Moon… by doing crescent moon pose. It was a good day on the mat, and I actually thought.
Which was good, because when I got up this morning, my hands (both hands) hurt an 11. It was awful. I stooped to taking my industrial strength Anti-inflamatory. I feel guilty taking it… isn’t that stupid…
Tomorrow (pager comp time day… woohoo… woohoo) I meet with the visitor’s bureau lady to discuss the 5k and to commit to really really doing this. Today I emailed some people at the school about getting some volunteers (/dev/null… great… great bit bucket in the sky… ). I will perservere.
A Figment Of Fitness 