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Yeah, yeah, I was all whine, whine, whine yesterday. Felt a little better this morning. Largely because I put things into perspective. I’ve been travelling for a few weeks, I’ve worked four weekends in a row, and damn it, I’m tired! So feeling sluggish and unmotivated is probably just normal.

For some reason, Sanjaya’s “just do it” comment yesterday made me think: “Oh, okay.”

This cracks me up. You know what regular practice does? It makes you non-reactive. Sure, I have things I react to, but much less than ever before. Mostly just work stuff that irritates me every so often. But when it’s resolved, it’s over. Driving? No worries. No reactions for the most part. Just every so often. And then it’s a case of thinking, “Hey, look how pissed I am,” and within a moment it’s gone.

So I am all whiny about practice and Sanjaya says, “Just practice,” and I read it at the end of a long day at work and think, “Okay.”

New guy at Mysore this morning. Checking things out. I did my practice. No thinking. Well, not much. Made a point of not making any decision about what I was going to do. No projecting into the future. Chugged along through primary, then did the intermediate portion. A-okay. My triceps are really sore, I’m guessing from the long bakasanas on the bhujapidasana and supta kurmasana exits. I hang out there, trying to remember how the breath is supposed to go in order to facilitate the jump back into chaturanga. Still sucking on the trying to get my knees into my armpits business, but I imagine it will come.

Backbends felt nice. I did some plain old urdhva dhanurasanas and then some dropping-back-using-the-wall ones, and then VBG came over for assisted ones. I’m all set up, bending baaaaack as far as I can and he is just standing there. I’m thinking, “Damn! Is he going to make me do this myself?!” [Subtext: "Oh God, please no!"]. Nah, he’s not going to let me fall. He waits until I’m heading for the ground and internally clocking the ever-increasing speed of my descent before he reaches out and presses a hand against either side of my hips — enough pressure to slow me down a bit. I’m understanding the mechanics of this — the balance and the coordination. Just need to get the shoulders/chest open more, so my arms can be straighter. Do-able.

Okay. Question of the day: How important is chakrasana? Anyone care to wax poetic on the reasons I should value it?