Posted in Uncategorized on 05/03/2009 09:32 am by karen
Neurolinguistic programming. Specifically, application of NLP to business situations.
Short shorts. Specifically, the dress code of home practitioners, and what do you do when you go to a shala? I love my short shorts, but hey, I raise my eyebrows at the folks who go to shala in teeny clothes. Gah! Caught in the web of my judgment! 
Superstitions. Specifically, practicing a set sequence makes me prone to think I can’t do one asana (safely) unless I’ve done “preceding” ones.
Dogma. Specifically, how prone I am to accepting it, and how studiously I try to avoid it. ANY dogma.
Public speaking. Specifically, my belief that it always has to be horribly painful and stressful. Upcoming event: speaking to the Board at the end of this month at our Seattle conference.
05/03/2009 at 12:23 pm
Short shorts: my regular practice shorts are the length of those posted in my recent hang/drop back pics. This morning saw me in them and nothing else. In a shala, due to decoration, I usually add shirt to said shorts.
Superstitions: Yes, it’s funny how in-sequence, a given pose “matters!!” to me, but out-sequence, I feel like I can either do it or not, really doesn’t matter. I’m working avidly now to chill that out.
Dogma: my home practice is a study in relating to dogma. I notice that sometimes I get more dogmatic in order to get more regular practices.
Public speaking: is not a fear thing for me, the extrovert who lectures to 30-person rooms a few times a week.
05/03/2009 at 8:20 pm
short shorts!! ha ha!
I won’t wear shorts unless it means I’ll be put in front of a firing squad if I don’t. But when I practice at home, I do let it all hang out- old ratty pants (rattier than my normal ones) and maybe just a tight tank- something I’d never wear in public in case of spillage.
I’ve only seen a couple women wear shorts where I practice, and both have legs to die for. I would don the shorts if I were them too. I don’t know how dwi pada sirsasana and the likes would fair with itty bitty shorts. Okay. Now I’m scared.
I have the same superstitions.
05/04/2009 at 6:42 am
I have the feeling you look amazing in your short shorts. I won’t wear them beause I have a huge (size of a softball) spot of spider veins on the side of one leg where I got hit with a softball in college. I usually wear my older, more threadbare yoga clothes at home for practice and save my ‘nicer’ ones for when I do public yoga.
I’m trying to decide (again) how much the dogma matters to me. We’ll see.
Funny, I don’t know you but you don’t strike me as the type of person who gets nervous speaking in public. I have to say it doesn’t bother me much, but I have a pretty good capacity to laugh at myself, I think that helps. It helps me, at least.
05/05/2009 at 1:11 pm
I only wear shorts if I’m not planning to do Yoga Nidrasana.
05/05/2009 at 2:00 pm
Collected some data for you. This morning at the mysore studio that I go to, there were 16 people practicing when I started. 15 female, 1 male. 2 females wore stretchy shorts, the 1 male wore baggy shorts. Remaining yoginis wore stretchy capris or pants in various levels of snugness. Based on anecdotal evidence from other days, this is representative but may slightly underestimate shorts prevalence. Anecdotally, there is no relationship between incidence of shorts and leg quality.
05/05/2009 at 4:23 pm
Hahaha! That cracked me up, Wombat. Thank you for your research!
V, if you want to do yoga nidrasana, try Verve’s Magico shorts. http://www.verveclimbing.com/magico_short.html
You can’t flash in them, even if you try.
05/05/2009 at 7:15 pm
Good data!
NLP to business … see Tony Robbins and imitators. It’s mostly been adapted for sales type jobs and self-motivating projects similar to the Landmark Forum. But NLP really doesn’t have to have such a cult-like flavor, as some ashtanga demonstrates. Oh, wait…
05/05/2009 at 8:34 pm
Ha! Karen, I actually DO have those shorts and have never worn them. Not even once. I feel too naked in them!
05/05/2009 at 10:02 pm
Hey, I know Vanessa… bloomers! yes! elastic at the legs and poofy to hide all evidence of whether you have male or female parts!
I agree- great data.
But still. I might go blind if I have to see my own fleshy trunks flashing at me during practice. Go on, brave women, wear the shorts.
05/06/2009 at 12:52 am
NLP Hmmmm, anything with an Acronym should be avoided at all costs
Short Shorts…mine have got shorter as the weather gets warmer, but they’re Nike and have an inner section to keep things…. discreet. I bought then same but with a longer leg in case I went to a shala or workshop. Does anyone really look at one anyone else is wearing????
Superstitions. If my towel on my mat isn’t straight when I begin it will be a bad practice, likewise individual asanas, must straighten that towel first or I wont be able to bind deeply. My failure to come up in karandavasana is clearly because I’m missing a hidden crease somewhere.
Dogma. It’s striking the pains a body will go to when formulate dogma. So many great minds agonizing over the fine points of philosophy and implications that later generations just dismiss with hardly a second thought as ….well,dogma. The irony is that dogma is formed from compromise but once formed resists all compromise.
Public Speaking. Ex teacher and teacher trainer here but always hated it. Trick was always having more material than I needed