Wednesday, September 8, 2010

Om ouch.

I hurt. Everywhere today. Turns out when you are away from yoga for 4+ months, you shouldn't start back with a 4 hour class. Turns out.

In other news, I finally experienced the heart-above-head sensation that inversions are all about. Total body release. Tears out of nowhere in the middle of a 7 minute shoulder stand.

And I didn't even need to worry about what it looked like that I started crying in the middle of class because when you're sweating that hard, who can tell the difference?

On the flip side, I had to contend with the fact that I indeed have too much flesh to be able to really achieve the binds and twists that are most beneficial for organs. And that sucked. That sucked a lot. Too much yan, not enough yin--is how the teacher chose to put it, using the terms for femininity (soft stuff) and masculinity (muscle). Those tears were from a totally different place.

Om namah shivaya.

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