Personal Development and Yoga

Aug 25, 2008, Paravrtta Balasana?

Looking through my journal this morning, I found this entry from last spring:

I have so many irons in the fire, except that's not really a good metaphor because they would all heat just as fast as if there were only one iron, but the point is that I have so many things I am doing right now that each one is getting less attention than I would like it too, and therefore progressing more slowly. But this is good for me to learn, since my current skill set is really limited to the pick - one - thing - and - do - it - to - death - and - then - drop - it - to - move - on - to - the - next model. And that has created a sort of life in pieces. So perhaps this is a practice in integration.

Interesting. This was written at a time that I was just opening the studio, planning my wedding, planning the trip home, and also a cd release party for Dusty Heroism, starting this website, and organizing Darren's upcoming workshop. A major muscle energy time - a time of holding it all together. That was a crazy vkrkrukti, (crooked, bent, or asymmetrical) pose, like natarajasana, but more like the actual nataraj - all over the place. Maybe like chamut karasana, or ardha chandra chapasana. Any way, it was a time of great expansion that required a lot of hugging in.

Now, after a long internal period brought about by getting sick, I am slowly reaching back out to explore how my edges relate to the outside world again. Maybe the pose I'm doing now is something like moving from child's (balsana) to twisted child's (paravrtta balasana).

I am still feeling a little run down. Practiced yesterday with the other CMC teachers - a very light practice, just getting back into my body after being sick. It never ceases to amaze me though, how much better doing asana always makes me feel....

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