Felt better — think it was voice strain yesterday — and made it to Lynn’s 9:30 am 2 hr Core Vinyasa class.  It’s funny, two easy days had me stiff as bejesus!!  Only solution for yoga is more yoga…   And for voice strain, not talking!!  Still keeping speaking to a bare minimum & [...]

Woke up hoarse & painfully scratchy throated today.  Quelle yuck.
Sends me right back into flashbacks of a really hellish period that persisted over, like, 5 years.  Yeah, I am able to ignore pain for a loooong time.
Used to teach spinning alot, & frequently ended up without a working microphone shouting over loud music.  Started to [...]

Lynne (Back Bay owner, goddess teacher & the leader of last night’s Pop Divas Yogathon) set her Facebook status this morning as “yoga hangover.”
Hee hee — pretty perfectly describes it!  Got an hour on the mat today, but my body really needed some quiet time.   I do think the current unplanned dynamic of alternating “push” [...]

So, like, FYI, Rumi was a 13th century Persian poet/mystic.  Very popular within the yoga world.  Go look him up on Wikipedia if you’re curious at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumi – good life story & collected works.
A particular Rumi quote has been showin’ up in the ether recently, put forth as inspirational by people I care about & respect.  [...]

That’s a very handy military-speak acronym, meaning Nothing Significant To Report.
My other favorite, applicable to today, is OBE.  Which stands for Overcome By Events.
I really like FUBAR as well, which started within the military, and means F’d Up Beyond All Recognition.
So, point being, my day today was focused on personal life stuff, less yoga.  There was [...]

Good news:  the looooong Mondays are definitely getting easier.  Teach 10-11:30, take class 12:15-1:15, teachers practice 3-5, assist 5:40-7:10.   Even a few weeks ago that day left me hurting & massive tired & was a push to get through.
Today it was nice, pleasant, relatively pain free (little low back fatigue but all good).
Thank heavens for [...]

Well, actually it’s ours.  But there was a flood.  And an ark.  And animals marching two by two through the basement going “crap, man, no way we’re all gonna fit & btw, the water’s rising near your neighbors storage unit & the hyenas won’t stop laughing at the platypuses.  Maybe they’re called platypi.  Dunno.  Ooops, [...]

Another powerful Forrest yoga element, especially in teacher training, is finding & sharing “beauty reports.”   This is a practice of noticing something wonderful, joyful, beautiful each day & communicating it to someone else.  Great training for finding delight in the supposedly mundane, and for choosing to focus on something bright & lovely, even (especially!   [...]

Self-mutilation is a big Forrest topic.  On the literal physical level, yes, but also on the inner dialogue aspect.  Been having an introspective, incubating couple of days that culminated in some wonderful clarity at about 5am this morning, before & during Peter’s fab Forrest Intensive 7-9, then Lynne’s Hip Hop class 10-1130, both at Back [...]

Missed posting yesterday because the blog fairy locked me out!  Reason: Unknown.  But, we have reconciled, recovered & renewed passwords & the blog goes on.
Focusing now on Sloooooowwwwwiiiinnnng Doooowwwwwn.   It’s a really necessary next step for me.  I’ve a natural tendency to race & fidget & atomic squirrel, & it’s all part of [...]