A draining day. Yoga: did the same stuff as yesterday that left me freaked out and…nothing. At first I thought it was because I was just overcompensating/being stiff instead of accessing flexibility, but no: I caught my own shadow and my shoulders were moving differently, less stiff. It was weird, seeing my shadow and feeling […]

Post before pics this morning so I don’t forget. I woke up sore in shoulders, hips, and back but feeling pretty good. Yoga, I did my standing poses, then dug out the foam roller bolster and used it on my hips and back. While working on hips, I recalled the feeling of dropping them from

Woke up stupid early and went out to do yoga in the dark, which was really nice. Holy crap were my shoulders sore again, and now all the way down my spine and along my ribs. The muscles are a little softer again, though, so it’s probably a good thing. There’s a particular way of

I turned ninety degrees off my yoga routine this morning, doing a sun salute, then mostly forward bends and a lot of things to stretch out my shoulders. Back bends. Afterwards I felt anxious and fearful, then (out on the walk) like I’d built up too much muscle too quickly in my shoulders again. Did

The bruise on my palm has healed up a bit, so I was able to do more yoga this morning, leaving me feeling more clear/grounded. Knee’s still a bit goopy so I couldn’t go into child’s pose or cat/cow. Today’s energy was right in front of me/behind me, not above, and it was easier to

I’m stuck on the story so time to write a note… This morning’s yoga worked around the skinned knee. When I first started learning yoga, it was during college inside an acting class. (I adored my theater classes & teachers; I really just wanted to do all my English classes with them.) The teacher–Roberta–was always

I skipped yoga and a walk this morning; I was SORE from the fall yesterday and the though of moving around with my skinned knee made me whine this morning, so no. I’m gonna go walk around Target for a while later, taking it easy. I did a selfie practice video from David Suh (per

This morning, my shoulders were so sore that I just did a sun salute, skipped to dead man’s pose, then got up and dug out the foam roller and rolled my back out like a piece of pizza dough. I’m gonna say that the neck and shoulder stretches I added yesterday were effective but I

This morning’s yoga: I finally broke down and bought bug spray. My feet and ankles are welted with bug bites from the last few days. Not sure what the deal was, but it was freaking annoying. I researched more shoulder/arm/neck stretches and did some this morning and I feel more integrated with the extra shoulder