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I really have to learn more about this.

…to imagine this with the background music I used this morning: Staying Alive, the Beegees. If you need lift-off, the Beegees are the go-to guys.

And yes, I know I need to stretch out more fully. And pull the camera back. Still, it was fun.

Okay, so I’m doing handstands and am dogged by the fear of going over backwards. Once I flipped pincha mayurasana, it was all downhill from there — no fear equals get the pose. I want to solve for handstand fear.

“What if I just go over?” I asked Muscle Man (meaning, what if I just went over into a backbend).

“Don’t do that,” he said.

“Don’t do it?”

“Don’t.”

Then he showed me how to go up, then start to fall backwards and twist until my hips come around and my feet land. Well, he showed me HIM doing it. My brain isn’t convinced, though, that what my eyes saw will translate into what my body does, when push comes to shove.

So I’m looking for stories about how people overcame fear of flipping over backwards from handstand. Does everyone twist/crappy cartwheel out of handstands?

I have serious problems with two kinds of candy: candy corn and Junior Mints. So I don’t buy them.

Last week, I asked someone on my team if she still had a book I lent her over a year ago. She thought she’d returned it, so was mortified to find she still had it. She returned it to me with a box of Junior Mints.

I tucked the box up in a cabinet over my desk and forgot about it, until I saw her catch a glimpse of it during our 1:1. I felt ungrateful for leaving it up there, so packed it into my bag and brought it home.

“Yay! I can freeze them and eat them three at a time.” That was my plan. Except, who was I kidding? I ate them all. I had a sugar hangover before I even went to bed. Then I was restless and had nightmares all night. I woke at 12:30, looked at the clock and thought, “WHEN will this night be OVER??”

Ugh. Not good. Practice was actually fine, which was a pleasant surprise. Despite my candy-consumption, I am suddenly on the other side of the winter vata thing. Feel really grounded and stable, even in the midst of madness at work.

Thought of the day: If an indication of progress in practice is reduction in muscle tension, I’m going to have to quit my job.

Happy Tuesday! (And just say no to sugar.)