I made the point of sleeping as much as possible over the past couple of days, to see if this could get me back into normality–I remember days in which waking up at any needed time, sleeping just 4-5 hours for many days in a row didn’t seem a challenge at all. But since now the lack of sleep (or sleeping poorly) seem to be getting to me much more heavily, I decided to give myself a break and take that excuse from the table.
Today I woke up much fresher and headed to the shala early; I like doing this on Saturdays because the place is pretty empty compared to the rest of the week. I can hear my own breath, and focus on it, which I did today. And I have to say that because of it, I have the best Sun Salutations ever–I was very happy to be able to breathe deeper but also smooth my breathing along the vinyasas much better than before. Yay. And of course the consequence was that I was able to stay focused for longer. I lost this a little as I started the standing poses, but overall I think I managed to do a pretty good job with the breathing today (not that the breathing is good, but I felt it improved) 
Other than that, balance was so-so (not so bad as on Wednesday) which was good. I ended up coming out feeling much better and happy
Alfia said,
June 1, 2009 at 5:30 pm
It is really funny – I was trying to catch up on my sleep debt too this weekend. The only problem is that I do not feel rested afterward, in fact, I feel even sleepier than before and zombie-like. What is up with that?