Today was a long tiring day. But a pretty productive one. I woke around eight am and after much annoying insistence from himself, threw on a hoodie and some sweat-pants and walked to the local garage, bleary-eyed and puffy-faced, to buy his precious milk as there was none in the house for even a cup […]
Nearly 100 days with these daily scribbles. I’m impressed with myself! Tonight I planned things wrong because I came home from work and did a few jobs that I didn’t necessarily need to do, but didn’t do the two I did need to do (this and uploading a specific piece to the website that some […]
I used to practice just Ashtanga yoga and do little other form of exercise. I thought the intensive yoga each morning was enough, and there’s no doubt that it’s a very healthy thing to move and stretch and strengthen the body with Ashtanga yoga. But it’s not a complete form of exercise because it’s not […]
I recently had to take a break of nearly six months off my daily Ashtanga yoga practice due to a mild yet recurring hamstring issue. Having been a strict and devout Ashtangi for a year (meaning 6-mornings-a-week practicing the same sequence by myself, day in, day out) this official break felt wrong and weird, like I […]
Yup – I cheated. On the sweet love of my life… Sure, we’ve been going through a rough patch lately – I’ve not been as committed or attentive as I used to be. There are days I’ve woken up and been like, Oh God, I’m so not into you right now and then felt stricken because I […]
As promised in my last post, I have to update you guys on my yoga progress so here it is: there isn’t much. My ideals of getting up earlier with that water spray plan failed. The first morning I just got out of bed, switched off the alarm and crawled straight back in again. Doh! I did […]
I posted on my blog recently about how I seemed to have lost my daily yoga routine, that is to say, my disciplined six-days-a-week Ashtanga yoga practice. When writing in this, I thought that I had reached the point where it was now time to settle down and return to my mat each morning, time […]
I used to be someone who practiced Ashtanga Yoga in the traditional method six days a week – what I considered a real Ashtangi. Just saying that makes me cringe a little but, well, it’s true. Even though I had convinced myself otherwise, I was hyped up on a smug sense of superiority because I was doing it right […]
The Ashtanga Primary Series is a phenomenal yoga practice. It deepens your connection to the breath, opens up the back of the body as well as the hips and it focuses and calms the mind. It’s a powerful journey of self-discovery. As stated in the ancient text, the Baghvad Gita: “Yoga is a journey of […]
For Christmas, one of my brothers gifted me a small beautiful book called a Five Year Memory book. On each page is the date of every day of the month from January through December, with five mini sections in which you are meant to write one interesting memory from that date over the course of […]
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