September 29, 2009 at 11:22 pm (Bumping into YOGA, Running to HEALTH, Stopping to MEDITATE)
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Bummer. I’m not terribly sick (yet?), just feeling a congestion that is starting to build in my lungs and nose, and with a little of a headache, muscle ache and nausea. This morning I decided to not go to practice because of the pressure on my lungs, which gets worse in the morning (during the day, I just have a lingering sensation that I might get to cough at some point). I also had a sore throat, which seems to have gone away mostly thanks to some good bath with listerine… No fever (I think).
The thing is, with the recent paranoia about the H1N1 virus, I’d rather stay home for a couple of days (working remotely) that show up at work and have a cough. I guess that should also apply to my other activities. I think I’ll have to see how I am tomorrow morning, but I suspect that in the best case scenario I should just practice at home if I feel well enough, and spare others from my viruses…
Sigh.
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September 28, 2009 at 12:04 pm (Bumping into YOGA, Running to HEALTH)
Nice practice today, though I started a little stiffer after two days of not practicing (Saturday and Sunday). However, I have to start working harder on my breathing, since I often catch myself doing it quite shallowly. I guess what this suggests is that I’m not focusing the way I should; and probably not, I’m too concentrated into getting the pose right (and align it with the breathing) rather than on lengthening the breathing itself. Hum.
Other than that, bummer. Apparently I went up 2 pounds this week! Not sure how that happened—up to the middle of the week I was monitoring my weight and I was losing. And, I must add, this week I really stepped up my level of exercise, swimming a few days and also running/biking, and so on. So I”m a bit intrigued. I’m thinking that the fact that on Saturday and Sunday I was out of my normal foods may have made me retain some water or something–because otherwise I cannot see how can my weight swing so much in just a couple of days. That… or maybe my old scale it’s not reading the way it should.
In any case, practice this morning felt like a good start; I feel back on track. This week I’ll be super careful with my eating and see what happens 
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September 27, 2009 at 1:52 pm (Bumping into YOGA, Running to HEALTH, The steps of LIFE)
No practice on Saturday, nor today, and I’m feeling a little blah. Maybe it’s the rain?. Yesterday I had a good excuse for not practicing–it was the birthday of a good friend, and we all spent some time from the early morning Kayaking. I had been in boats before–canoing, white-water rafting, and in a catamaran–but I don’t do it often enough, and the experience yesterday reminded of how sweet it can be to push yourself in the water, particularly when these are completely tranquil.
For some reason, I’m not feeling good about myself, though–we went for lunch afterwards and I ate way too much pizza, considering that I need to lose weight and I’m counting points. The pizza itself was not the scary thing, as I believe I one should learn how to weave eating out (even a little of junk/comfort food from time to time) into a healthy diet without derailing it. I think what bothered me was to see the voracity with which I wanted to eat it (aside from the fact that the slices represented a lot of calories). Maybe it made me feel that I don’t yet have this under control; it’s been my worst performance while eating out since I started firmly on the diet/exercise about a month ago.
This morning, to redeem myself, I thought it’d be good to go to a long yoga practice and then for a swim (after that, I have a brunch at a friend’s house, and I’m finding that scary too). Anyway. It was hard to wake up, but managed to get ready, and as I did, I realized that apparently my blackberry from work was no where to be found–which is odd, since I’m not disorganized and it usually lands up in one of a few places. I searched for it hysterically and then I went to the zipcar I rented last night to see if maybe it fell in there somewhere–I even called it from my cell to see if it rang… but nothing. It probably was taken from my purse yesterday night when I went with my birthday-friend to Glen Echo for a dance lesson ;( Ugh.
Of course, the search for the blackberry in the house, having to go to the zipcar I used yesterday night to search, call zipcar to see if they would allow me to open; and the phone calls at the office that ensued to report the missing blackberry sucked up so much time that when I got free to drive to practice (as originally intended) it was obvious that I would just catch a few minutes of the Mysore session and it didn’t make sense anymore… 
So I came back, logged into the computer to see if I needed to file any additional reports on the stolen blackberry, called Glen Echo just in case to ask they keep an eye in case it just fell from my purse (unlikely), had a healthy breakfast and then started blogging…
I admit that I’m a little cranky right now. I thought of practicing here at home but right now I’m too upset for it. I need a little more time. I think I will try to do some housework, go to brunch (where I will restrain my eating to maximum levels), and then maybe I can go for a swim and then a soft in home practice, to end this day on a good note
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September 25, 2009 at 12:25 pm (Bumping into YOGA, Running to HEALTH)
Practiced today, and I was surprised about how fast I moved through my whole sequence—I think on Sunday I will need to slow down and increase the number and length of the breaths. I think the cause may be that I’m simply getting stronger; I have also been swimming and running (I alternate, one each day, in the evening), and I can feel that I’m just moving easier through practice in the morning. At the same time, I feel as if yoga were tying it all up… very interesting.
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September 23, 2009 at 6:11 pm (Bumping into YOGA, Running to HEALTH)
A little painful, this morning, to wake up since yesterday night I went to dinner with some friends. Despite the fact that it finished early, the wine doesn’t seem to accompany yoga well, as Alfia has pointed out in the past.
Anyway, I was a little bit more tired during practice, but overall it went very well. I love my Marichis and I feel I’m getting better as days pass, which is very motivating
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