monday
Posted in ashtanga yoga, poetry on 11/17/2008 05:37 am by karenReading about observational realism — the pursuit of likeness. Meh. Not my favorite thing. Not enough recognition of the air quotes it needs.
Still, it’s like looking at a still life. Soothing and seemingly solid. Still.
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“there is equality among you and all beings when separated from prakrti, owing to having one form as consciousness” (Ramanuja)
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Charles Bernstein’s blog. Some good art (LOVE the Joan Mitchell painting!), and some good audio of poets reading.
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Led class with Muscleman on Saturday. I have no idea what the deal was, but it was about a thousand degrees in the room. He went over and messed around with the thermometer a few times — perhaps it was broken.
Zipped through primary and headed into second. He’d left me alone through primary, but came by to give an extra crank on both sides of pasasana, then a serious cranking on both sides of eka pada sirsasana.
“Huh,” I thought. “I’d be moving a lot faster if I had a teacher crank me into this every morning.” Followed by: “I don’t know if I want that.”
Surprising thought.