26th-28th of November 2007: Time Passes, Dharma a Little Closer
Deidre is out at work during the day, but for three days straight we do yoga each night. We switch back and forth between It's Yoga and a wonderful donation yoga studio - Blue Sky. It's actually the back room of a little art gallery in the downtown area of Vegas, and we practice our asanas and vinyasas under the gaze of Bettie Page prints and symbolic fertility paintings.
We have a different teacher each session, and thus a different approach each time. There's Bum, a skinny, dreamy hippy guy who dresses entirely in tie-dye with a huge woolly hat and can throw his feather-light body into extraordinary contortions with grace, Anna Thea, a slightly intense lady with a huge mad grin full of love and welcome who teaches heart-opening yoga, woman power and kundalini, and Melissa, who is younger, matter-of-fact and firm.
I'm starting to feel the real benefits of the practice through this intense approach. I feel more graceful and balanced, more in touch with my body, and I feel calmer and more focussed in everyday life too. I'm starting to adjust the little details of the poses - how my body weight falls, positions of the toes and fingers, eyeline, and most of all the mental stance and breathing as I'm less distracted by my body's complaints. I'm starting to develop a craving for healthy food too, especially green vegetables. After every session Deidre and I return to the house like zombies, crooning "greeen theeeengs", and stuff ourselves with salads and steamed broccoli.
We have a different teacher each session, and thus a different approach each time. There's Bum, a skinny, dreamy hippy guy who dresses entirely in tie-dye with a huge woolly hat and can throw his feather-light body into extraordinary contortions with grace, Anna Thea, a slightly intense lady with a huge mad grin full of love and welcome who teaches heart-opening yoga, woman power and kundalini, and Melissa, who is younger, matter-of-fact and firm.
I'm starting to feel the real benefits of the practice through this intense approach. I feel more graceful and balanced, more in touch with my body, and I feel calmer and more focussed in everyday life too. I'm starting to adjust the little details of the poses - how my body weight falls, positions of the toes and fingers, eyeline, and most of all the mental stance and breathing as I'm less distracted by my body's complaints. I'm starting to develop a craving for healthy food too, especially green vegetables. After every session Deidre and I return to the house like zombies, crooning "greeen theeeengs", and stuff ourselves with salads and steamed broccoli.
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