Quick post before embarking on the evening’s entertainment at Back Bay Yoga (warm up, then sub Vinyasa flow at 4, assist Forrest at 5:40, take the MADONNATHON at 7:30!!).  Karen over at www.donutszenmom.com, an awesomely articulate Ashtangi & one of my blogging inspirations was interested in the other Forrest basics, especially telescoping, so I wanted to [...]

Since I’m subbing a Vinyasa class tomorrow, pulled out an old fave vinyasa flow DVD — Sonic Yoga’s Moving into Hanumanasana (splits) but kinda practiced it Forrest-style.  
First, a history on Sonic Yoga.  It’s a studio in Hell’s Kitchen, NYC   http://www.sonicyoga.com/  with a strong heated power vinyasa style.  Used to love their tapes/DVDs when I was living [...]

In a past life, I was a planner for the military — seriously!  I wrote, staffed, coordinated & then published plans for contingencies like WMD terrorism, or bird flu (ya know, the panic before swine flu). 
Did this knowing full well that the first thing to happen in any crisis would be to take my baby off [...]

Sheila’s powers are especially strong on cold, rainy Sundays.
This morning she fixed big green eyes on me & I was in her thrall… enchanted, spellbound, doomed to lie under covers & read & nap until the Princess Sheila saw fit to lift the curse.
Not such a bad fate.  Except the little grey ball of fluff snores like [...]

Went on a yoga field trip this morning!!  Did a short warm up at thome, then my gorgeous yogi friend took me to her favorite local stretchy joint, The Healing Tree in Wollaston (Quincy) MA. 
We did Kathy Keane’s “power” yoga followed by Kathy’s Pilates class.  Kathy is a darling teacher & VERY good with anatomy [...]

Went to Peter’s Forrest Intensive this morning at Back Bay.  It’s a great new event — once a month there’s now a 2 hr Forrest class held at the usual teacher training/intensives Ana-time of  7-9 am.  Got to see the sunrise on the Charles as the train crossed over & was truly excited to be heading in, even [...]

Peter Crowley, the amazing Forrest instructor I assist on Monday nights at Back Bay, also has a blog.  And on Sept 21 he posted something so true & well-articulated that, with his permission, I wanted to share it here.
While the whole site is great, the particular article that made me sit up & and go [...]

When did movement become punishment rather than pleasure?  When did it stop being fun to live in our bodies & play? 
Really, I’m wondering — somewhere along the way from baby to adulthood alot of the freedom & ecstatic abandon gets put aside or lost or squished down into rigid patterns.  Sit, walk, run, stay contained, color [...]

My body expressed a very strong opinion today: it wants rest.  The message started at the left ankle, working up to left hip flexor through left quadratus lumborum, with a side trip to right inner leg, upper back & general fatigue as a postscript.  Plus got about three hours of sleep last night, maybe four.  Something [...]

I posted earlier today to reflect being in a bit of a mood & workin’ with it. Since then did teacher’s practice & assisted & all better now.  Seem to talk alot about whether & how to work with emotional states & continue to find it interesting. 
How to explain?  Buddha had his bodhi tree, Newton [...]