Thé Rollercoaster
The Journey of my practice | A journey with no end in sight
by globie
1M ago
After getting over the eye surgeries and surviving the 8 weeks of rehab inactivity I finally got back on my mat in early December. I can’t lie , it’s been a slog, it’s felt so much harder to get going again after surgery. A lack of energy, a real fall off in my general fitness and touching my toes was difficult. Eventually mid January I started to get some feeling of improvement, L said to take it easy, one Sunday she actually stopped me after Primary, she’s never done that before, I was laying prone on my mat considering my options. L said it’s always harder to get going again in the winter w ..read more
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The time of No!
The Journey of my practice | A journey with no end in sight
by globie
5M ago
I am now in the time of post operative “NO”, which after having the two eye operations on consecutive Mondays means doing nothing that raises blood pressure or pressure in the eyes. No lifting, no bending down, no shopping, no garden stuff, and obviously no meaningful Ashtanga, oh and no flying, so I can’t even rest somewhere sunny and warmer than here, where it’s turned bloody cold and wet. The surgeries went ok, I’m just left with a right eye that feels gritty and a left eye that feels sticky and needs coaxing open every morning with careful use of warm water, then it’s just the 4 times a da ..read more
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After the ping
The Journey of my practice | A journey with no end in sight
by globie
6M ago
Thanks to diligently doing the Physiotherapists exercises and not doing things that piss the wrist off for the last 6 weeks or so, it’s definitely getting there. However the older I get the more life seems to be one step forward and two steps back. The (relatively) new job requires me to read lists on paper and use a computer with an ancient excel type program, reading both has been a struggle. I went to the optician expecting new glasses , I came away with referrals for a laser surgery on the left eye and a cataract operation on the right, so now I’m in Rishi’s backlog of 7 million and strugg ..read more
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What went ping
The Journey of my practice | A journey with no end in sight
by globie
8M ago
6 weeks or so ago I did the Saturday led class at the Shala, Louise led is nice and steady. Steadily I went until I got to Utita Hasta balance at the end of standing, as I put my leg outwards on the second side, suddenly a gun shot sound emanated from my left wrist and a pain that went right through my arm. Ive left it a while in the hope that it would just get better on its own, but UHP is impossible, as is lifting the kettle, which is obviously even more serious! My pinky finger and the one next to it aren’t working either, so C at the local Shala advised me to see “someone”. Luckily our lo ..read more
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Missing things
The Journey of my practice | A journey with no end in sight
by globie
10M ago
Practice has been a struggle, the thing in my lower back/pelvis is driving me nuts. Most days I’ve only managed primary and a dodgy Salabhasana, what follows became impossible even with Rumalaya and Alex the massage therapists magic fingers and thumbs. It’s deeply frustrating especially with the warm humid mornings that have finally arrived which usually makes my body looser and bendier, Louise said once Easter to October is when practice expands and can be worked on, as opposed to the cold winter months, when it’s about maintaining what you have. I’m missing being able to do the part of my pr ..read more
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Connection
The Journey of my practice | A journey with no end in sight
by globie
11M ago
I’m not sure if H came to Conference with a theme or plan of what he would talk about. He started off by talking about what the word yoga means to him, “Connection” and “Community”, he said yoga can also mean yolk, but he said that’s for eggs! How the practice isn’t just the near two sweaty hours on our mats, but how it relates to our lives off the mat, how we treat other people, how we treat ourselves, if we forgive those who we see as wronging us, or as he put it, putting the loo roll on the wrong way round! H said one of his latest favourite saying was the Japanese term Ika Gai, the meanin ..read more
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All change
The Journey of my practice | A journey with no end in sight
by globie
1y ago
Well some things do, Kapotasana is where it is, but it’s fun trying, not expecting change in this lifetime, but I can dream about catching sight of my feet. It is easier at the shala where it’s much warmer and my body is more open. My dropbacks have become a bit hit and Miss, though I usually manage it and after assisted drops L was squashing me when there was a huge crack from my lower back, to which she said “that’s an £80 crack at the Osteopaths!” What has changed is I finally did what I needed to with the part time job, it shows what happens when you make a decision and start trying to do ..read more
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Caring less
The Journey of my practice | A journey with no end in sight
by globie
1y ago
Now I’ve got to a posture, Kapotasana, that I can’t do from the get go for the first time since Pasasana I realise I’m happier with where my practice is than I have been in a very very long time. To be honest I never expected to get given Kapo. It’s given me something to work on without the expectation that I’ll ever be able to do it. I try, I try very hard 4 or 5 times a week but really it’s only at the shala with help that anything happens, heat sure helps too. In some ways Kapo feels like an end point in this particular project, I can’t see me getting the “Billy no mates” next posture this ..read more
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Elegant ?
The Journey of my practice | A journey with no end in sight
by globie
1y ago
I practised at the local shala/studio on Friday, I actually shouldn’t have done after later reading the advice on the blood donation leaflet they gave me Thursday afternoon after I donated my nice O+ blood, no exercise for 24 hours it said. Does Ashtanga count as “exercise”? I was actually a bit tired and at various points thought about bailing out, but having made the effort to go and paid my money, I like to get full value and do my full practice. Somehow I got to the end, got tortured in Bhekasana and Kapotasana, stood up from 3 dropbacks, then promptly fell asleep in Savasana. I mean prope ..read more
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It’s definitely a project
The Journey of my practice | A journey with no end in sight
by globie
1y ago
The breath as art. It’s been a month since Kapotasana unexpectedly came into the horizon and my practice. I don’t think I’m anywhere near my feet, I haven’t even seen them, let alone touched them. But for all the mystique, fear and stories around Kapo I’m actually enjoying having something to work on, a posture I can’t do, a (very long) work in progress. The one positive so far is that I think Kapo has improved my dropbacks, I haven’t crashed one since the Kapo experiment began. If I’m lucky I get help twice a week, though I’ve noticed the day after I get intense help (torture) from a teacher ..read more
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