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Mysore practice with The Poetess was good. She has a very sweet, gentle energy, and she is earnest and… well, dear. When you enter the room, she hugs you, and when she adjusts you, she breaths with you as if she hopes her breath can help you. So she’s not just listening to your breath, or aligning with your breath, she’s actually trying to *share* her breath. As I said, very dear.

She also keeps the room a little brighter than MM, which I find super-helpful in utthita hasta padangusthasana.

Gratitude was the name of the game this morning. After a creaky practice yesterday, where I kept feeling a little nervous about my back, I had one of those delightful easy practices where everything feels really sweet. As I’ve mentioned before, if hanumanasana feels great during the standing poses (Yes! Contradiction! Hanumanasana is not a standing pose! This really does bother me, in an OCD way…) anyhow, if it feels really good, then I know it’s gonna be a great practice.

Primary through marichyasana D, intermediate through kapotasana. I’ve been feeling a whimsical desire to get back to LBH poses, but c’mon, it woulda been greedy to go there, first good day after a sore back day. So I let it go.

For now. There is something humorous and sustaining in the LBH work. Something enlivening. I miss it.

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Before practice, I did a little reading about the “Tail Koan.” I’ve always loved this one. Occasionally I glimpse my tail, and it’s always kinda thrilling. And no, I don’t mean glimpse my tail in the literal I-can-bend-back-and-look-at-my-ass way. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.